THE LEARNING SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2024

OVERVIEW

You want to follow evidence-based practices, but you’re faced with a lack of opportunity both in learning and in applying it at work (with concerns over time and money).

What’s a responsible instructional designer to do?

The Learning Science Conference is your answer. Led by internationally known experts, this event provides you with a practical overview of how learning happens and how to increase the effectiveness of learning in your program designs and delivery, as well as how to evaluate the efficacy of those learning interventions. We’ll explore how to read and evaluate research, engage learners, address barriers such as myths, and more.

You’ll leave equipped to determine what models, tools, and approaches to embrace in your own work. Most importantly, it is a conference that enables you to discuss and question the presenters, learn from each other, and space out your own learning so you can practice and apply it back on the job. Become the practitioner you and your employer want and need you to be!

CONFERENCE TOPICS (SESSIONS)

Each topic below will have a video presentation, and have a live sessions (90 minutes long) repeated once to cover time zones as much as possible. Session times are listed in ET (New York time). Topics are:

• How learning happens and techniques that make learning happen. (November 11: 10h00 to 11h30 and again 16h00 to 17h30)

• ‎Barriers to learning. What impedes learning from happening- like cognitive load. (November 11: 13h00 to 14h30 and again 18h00 to 19h30)

• ‎Techniques for making the learning that happened, stick. (November 12: 10h00 to 11h30 and again 16h00 to 17h30)

• ‎The Science of motivation and how It supports learning (November 12: 13h00 to 14h30 and again 18h00 to 19h30)

• ‎Myths, misconceptions, and superstitions that happen in learning (November 13: 10h00 to 11h30 and again 16h00 to 17h30)

• ‎Formal and informal learning (November 13: 13h00 to 14h30 and again 18h00 to 19h30)

• ‎Media, visuals, and other factors (November 14: 10h00 to 11h30 and again 16h00 to 17h30)

• ‎Limitations in learning (generalizations vs. domain-specificity) (November 14: 13h00 to 14h30 and again 18h00 to 19h30)

• ‎Testing, assessments, and evaluation (November 15: 10h00 to 11h30 and again 16h00 to 17h30)

November 15 will also be our closing sessions (from 13h00 to 14h30 and again 18h00 to 19h30), These sessions are opportunities for you to bring challenges, questions, concerns, and even scenarios to the gathering, and we will work through them together.