First takeaway for me – last year’s completely online was better than this year’s hybrid, just showing again how difficult it is to do good hybrid events – even when you as an organization are committed to making this successful and you have been doing it for years.
Second takeaway: When something is advertised as a poster session, it really needs to have a poster. So many missed opportunities for me at that point.
Third takeaway: the Top Ten Issues are pretty stagnant, no matter how much they try to spin it each year into this amazing list of things. Most stunning for me was Point 10: Radical Creativity, and I sure hope that this is not just another way of saying do more with less.
A couple of links that may be useful: Advancing Racial Literacy in Tech and the Learning Space Feedback Guide
A couple of interesting questions: with Flexwork, are we serving our employees or are we serving students? Can it be both? What would that look like?
Should we not have any updates on Fridays in order to avoid not hearing back from vendors when stuff does not go as planned?
And for me, the most innovative, radically creative presentation focused on international learning spaces, with the realization that transitional learning spaces are the future. These spaces between classrooms, outside of faculty offices, in the library, around food, possibly outside, need to be designed with power so that students can charge their devices, can collaborate, have quiet corners for connecting via web conference with others, and just in general need to be more fun, accessible, colorful. One stunning short video showed a space (somewhere in Japan, I think) where a large space had been designed for 3 types of connecting and studying: informal (couches etc), formal single study (tables and chairs), formal collaborative (tables, couches, monitors for connecting). No one sat at the formal single study. Not sure what that means for the current research around students liking to be alone together (who has read that book?).
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