How to Improve Academic Conferences?

I’m a fan of Presentation Zen, and have often recommended it to students. A recent post on Pecha Kucha got me thinking: if the purpose of this approach is to cut down on excessive wordiness, to keep presentations focused, and to give many people a chance to present, perhaps it might be interesting to experiment with it for academic conferences? That might have the effect of raising the overall quality of presentations, and opening up more opportunity for discussion?

Just a thought …

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  1. Boink Blogs says:
    10/21/2007 at 3:35 am

    [...] to Improve Academic Conferences? Bruce D’Arcus put an intriguing blog post on How to Improve Academic Conferences?Here’s a quick excerpt… if the purpose of this approach is to cut down on excessivewordiness, to keep presentations focused, and to give many people a chance to present, perhaps it might be interesting to experiment with it for academic conferences? … [...]

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