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Why Waste a Good Crisis? Delivering an Exclusively Online, International Academic Conference

Why Waste a Good Crisis? Delivering an Exclusively Online, International Academic Conference. Terese Bird, Simon Kear, Emma Davies and Richard Mobbs. ALT-C Conference, 8 September 2010. Learning Futures Festival Online 2010 is the 5th International Conference to be hosted by

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Why Waste a Good Crisis? Delivering an Exclusively Online, International Academic Conference

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  1. Why Waste a Good Crisis?Delivering an Exclusively Online,International Academic Conference Terese Bird, Simon Kear, Emma Davies and Richard Mobbs ALT-C Conference, 8 September 2010

  2. Learning Futures Festival Online 2010 is the 5th International Conference to be hosted by • the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, and will take place from 7—14 January 2010. • For the first time this conference will be entirely online, and we invite you to join us to explore positive disruption for learning from a variety of worldwide perspectives and themes. • For further details please see: www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/festival/ • own learning in HE Learning Futures Festival Online 2010: Positively Disruptive

  3. Why an online conference? • Economic downturn • Maximise the opportunity Photo by dpicker on Flickr ALT-C 8 September 2010

  4. Other purely-online conferences • The first? • Supporting Deaf People 20011 • JISC Innovating e-Learning 20092 (446 registrants) • International, regular webinars such as The Future of Education3

  5. How to do an online conference • “Are you game?” • Risk assessment • DIY Photo by JoseJose on Flickr ALT-C 8 September 2010

  6. Choose your platforms Elluminate Live! Janison bespoke VLE ALT-C 8 September 2010

  7. Choose your platforms Googleopoly – many Web 2.0 Second Life ALT-C 8 September 2010

  8. eModerating an online conference • Familiar with tech and presenter’s topic • Begin with simple introduction of software tools • ‘Question breaks’ every 20 minutes • 2 moderators for groups > 20 • One master of ceremonies • Other to watch chat box Photo by aka.me on Flickr ALT-C 8 September 2010

  9. Learning Futures Festival 2010 7 – 14 January 2010 ALT-C 8 September 2010

  10. Learning Futures Festival Facts • 8 days • 8 keynote presentations • 8 talks by Professor Gilly Salmon • 14 workshops (synchronous and asynchronous) • 24 papers • 50+ hours of live conferencing • £50 for all 8 days; University of Leicester staff and students free • Over 75% of presentations converted to Open Educational Resources • 231 registrants • 22 countries • Every continent except Antarctica ALT-C 8 September 2010

  11. Advantages Photo by badjonni on Flickr ALT-C 8 September 2010

  12. Lessons Learnt Photo by szlea on Flickr ALT-C 8 September 2010

  13. Opportunity Maximised! 78% increase on registrations over previous year 440% more countries reached (from 5 to 22) 4x as much conference for same price Made modest profit (never made profit before) Innovation

  14. Very positive feedback N = 34

  15. As a result… • Hybrid seminars • Online conferencing workshops • Learning Futures Festival Online 2011: “Follow the Sun” 13-15 April Photo by Dennis Collette…!!! on Flickr ALT-C 8 September 2010

  16. ALT-C 8 September 2010

  17. References1 http://www.online-conference.net/sdp2001.htm2 http://www.online-conference.net/sdp2001.htm 3 http://www.futureofeducation.com/4 Learning Futures Festival 2010 Carbon Report http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15038 ALT-C 8 September 2010

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