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Is Your Virtual Conference Engaging Enough to Prevent Multitasking?

WBT Systems

After two years of living in pandemic mode, we look at time differently. Because many people rearranged their lives so they could spend more time on what they value and less time doing unfulfilling work, we’re…

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19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences

Tony Karrer

I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. This conference has been run for a few years now and is tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year. Assign people into roles.

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Designing virtual learning to deliver application and impact: 20 powerful techniques

CLO Magazine

Multitasking inhibits learning. It’s a myth that a person can multitask and still absorb in-depth knowledge and information. Research shows us that multitasking actually reduces a participant’s ability to learn. With instructor-led learning, multitasking is better controlled in many ways.

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Working from home is a skill, not a circumstance

CLO Magazine

Zoom fatigue is real, but conference etiquette is still being normalized for most of us. Multitasking is Still a Productivity Killer. Vanderkam has a good line: “If you can easily multitask, you shouldn’t be on that call.” If we are multitasking, it means we haven’t planned our work well. To Video, or Not to Video?

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What Computer Should I Buy?

Adobe Captivate

I only travel for work about three or four times per year, but there is nothing more exhausting than lugging around a giant notebook from your hotel room to a conference facility. Unfortunately, I’m not important enough to always get a place in the same hotel as the conference. I know, first world problems.

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Measuring the impact and ROI of virtual learning

CLO Magazine

Multitasking inhibits learning. Research shows that multitasking reduces a participant’s ability to learn. There is a myth that a person can multitask and still absorb in-depth knowledge and information. With instructor-led learning, multitasking is better controlled in many ways. Why does this happen?

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Virtual learning after the pandemic

CLO Magazine

Over time, we have collected data at the beginning of conference presentations and webinars by asking our audiences for levels of agreement with four critical statements. Multitasking. Though learning providers, expert designers and skilled facilitators have tackled this issue feverishly, rampant multitasking remains a huge challenge.