COABE (Commission on Adult Education) partners with state directors to advance adult education and literacy opportunities for all purposes. This #COABE15 conference link lists the presenters and topics for the conference. The conference is offering an app for those of us interested in following the conference.
I find browsing conference sessions a good way to stay in touch with the hot topics in the field and I can keep track of fellow professionals presenting at conferences. One of the presenters I have followed on adult education lists is David Rosen. He is presenting an online guide to blended learning for adult educators, and he plans to offer the guide free online. Out of the 28 pages of session summaries, I noticed many names of presenters that are part of my personal professional network, either past face to face colleagues or online colleagues. Very few sessions are offered on integrating videos into adult education.
PSA is focusing on the core concepts that result in the highest quality videos for learning. We can learn from the needs for professional development suggested by the COABE conference presentations, and we can learn from the long list of practitioners in the field.
I’m downloading the COABE app to follow the conference in April and make contact with potential interview personalities for PSA.
GREAT catch Kris. A terrific resource, as conferences mostly present the latest and state of the art research and practices in a field. Having access to the presentations themselves is an instant addition to our reference library, and grist for the “What is Learning Today” mill.
Adult learning, including professional development and workforce training is one of the more “wide open to change” learning fields, and thus ripe for rapid innovation.
One possibility that seems like a great idea to me, is that through connecting to such a conference(s) we can also promote future remote “Call Recorder” Skype interviews, as you suggest…for those we aren’t in the same physical location with.
David Rosen seems to have all the pr-requisites as a top interview candidate, and it’s great you have at least some connection to him already. Looking forward to what might be able to occur there. IMO, you are a very good question asker, and a very good listener, and you are very knowledgable in the field …so what could go wrong in interview? =^)
Well, your HD could get full, the Skype call could get hinky, and your interview subject might have some calls coming in on their cell…or a pet/child/mate at home that’s insisting on attention, or the UPS gal needs a signature on a package, or….endless possibilities for interruption. Flying fish could arrive.
But the nice thing with using “short clips” is, interruptions don’t matter very much. One just restarts where one left off.
Hmmm, this conference is in Denver, which while not as close as El Paso, is not as far as LA or Chicago or east coast. Maybe physically doable to drive up there in late April; probably no blizzards then? OTOH, online participation can be done in my pajamas with no driving or hotels whatsoever.
28 pages of session summaries….goodness gracious!