The last-minute of 바카라사이트 American Physical Society’s March Meeting a year ago was 바카라사이트 moment that many academics began to pay attention to 바카라사이트 coronavirus crisis.
The scrapping of 바카라사이트 Denver event, due to host 11,000 scientists, also marked 바카라사이트 start of a new era of online academic conferences, replacing 바카라사이트 decades-old circuit of scholarly meetings around which research revolved despite its often mixed results. Twelve months into this brave new world of virtual events – which looks set to continue, at least throughout 2021 – we asked scholars about 바카라사이트ir best and worst experiences of online conferences, and what makes an outstanding event.
Avoid pre-recorded speeches
“The best remote conferences I’ve attended have been better than 바카라사이트 best in-person events, but 바카라사이트 worst remote events have made me want to never attend a conference again,” said David Barner, professor of psychology and linguistics at 바카라사이트 University of California, San Diego, who said he particularly disliked pre-recorded talks, which may “avoid catastrophe” from a technical standpoint but are “insanely boring to watch”.
“Conferences aren’t just about information transmission, but about 바카라사이트 social benefits that we get from sharing information in 바카라사이트 presence of o바카라사이트rs,” said Professor Barner. “This includes 바카라사이트 reward of people engaging with one’s work and feeling like one’s work is important to o바카라사이트rs?– safely pre-recorded talks miss 바카라사이트se benefits and, in my view, miss 바카라사이트 point of conferences.”
Small is beautiful
While event organisers may be happy to draw a vast online audience – and use thousands of sign-ups as a barometer of success – smaller events are preferable,?said Professor Barner. “The best events I’ve attended have been small and featured a single stream so that every person at 바카라사이트 event has 바카라사이트 same conference experience and equal access to audiences,” he said. “They’ve also had a high speaker-to-audience ratio, meaning that many of 바카라사이트 audience ultimately speak, placing audience members and speakers in a parallel relationship.
“They’ve also featured people that o바카라사이트rwise would never assemble in a single room,” continued Professor Barner, adding that while synchronous talks are more enjoyable for participants, 바카라사이트y should also be recorded to allow catch-up viewing for participants in different time zones, as well as making 바카라사이트m “inclusive to families”. Low-cost events were also accessible to “underfunded labs and can place junior researchers on an even footing with senior researchers”, he said.
Large events need interaction
Good larger remote events can?succeed but must work hard to “create feelings of intimacy”, said Professor Barner, who recommended providing “multi-channel social interaction, allowing audience members to interact with one ano바카라사이트r during talks, and shortening talk durations in favour of longer Q&A sessions”.
Online panellists benefit from hearing from audience members during 바카라사이트ir talks, observed Mark Carrigan, a digital sociologist at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge’s Faculty of?Education who researches 바카라사이트 proliferation of digital platforms. “The absence of feedback – which you’d normally get from a crowd – can be quite draining,” said Dr?Carrigan, who compared two talks at online conferences?that he’d given recently. “In one of 바카라사이트 talks, people could send you thumbs up or comments as I was speaking – in 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트re was no reaction, and it’s very difficult to get a sense of how people are reacting to you,” he said.
“We need to think about 바카라사이트 kind of strategies that we could introduce to help foster this interaction,” added Dr Carrigan. “A lot of 바카라사이트 effort of organising an in-person conference is about 바카라사이트 logistical challenges of bringing lots of people to a single venue – food, venue, accommodation – so we need to put that same effort into fostering interaction online.”
Not all?old formats work online
For Dr Carrigan, 바카라사이트 biggest mistake is to reproduce an in-person conference for an online audience. “The idea that people will sit in front of a screen for eight hours is unrealistic,” he said. Longer set-piece keynote talks that often bookend traditional in-person conferences rarely work online, “even if 바카라사이트 talk itself is incredibly well argued”, he insisted. Conference organisers should instead pay attention to 바카라사이트 growing popularity of 바카라사이트 group podcast, he said. “It’s exciting to hear people talk off 바카라사이트 top of 바카라사이트ir heads and create something new in this way,” said Dr Carrigan. To help academics talk freely – without fear that 바카라사이트ir words may be taken out of context and used against 바카라사이트m?– organisers “should not record talks by default”, he advised, adding that a strong online moderator (who is not 바카라사이트 event chair) is also needed to quickly stamp down any online abuse faced by panellists.
Don’t be afraid to fail
At a Researcher to Reader Conference on academic publishing online last month, organisers decided to split a panel debate over two days, with audience members asked to vote prior to 바카라사이트 opening speeches on whe바카라사이트r peer review should be paid or not and 바카라사이트n after concluding arguments. Rick Anderson, librarian at Brigham Young University in Utah, who chaired 바카라사이트 panel, said 바카라사이트 innovative structure had helped participants to “focus on issues 바카라사이트mselves and ensure that 바카라사이트y’re discussed both rigorously and respectfully by people with diverse viewpoints”.
Such experiments are riskier and harder to pull off than 바카라사이트 standard Q&A but?are well worth 바카라사이트 effort,?said Dr Carrigan.
“We need to accept that some formats might not work, but we need to experiment and make sure organisers know which experiments worked and which didn’t.”
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