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Wonder if there is value in providing slide-less talks. Where the speaker engages the audience and provides a written report with a logical flow for deeper anal
by agomez314 5y ago
Wonder if there is value in providing slide-less talks. Where the speaker engages the audience and provides a written report with a logical flow for deeper analysis if needed.
- nerdponx 5y agoThis is pretty much how good university lectures are conducted. The instructor provides some "lecture notes" ahead of time and/or some other assigned reading, then the lecture session itself is more of an overview, discussion, and/or extended worked example, with lots of classroom engagement. However, it's more demanding on the audience this way. So it depends on the purpose of the session.
- neolog 5y agoNote this works only if the audience actually does the homework in advance. I heard Amazon has people do the reading at the start of the meeting?
- ketzu 5y agoIs there specific value in the talks being slide-less? I see that written reports are much better at conveying in depth information than talks, but if there is a talk and a written report - say a conference paper and associated talk - I judge them as two very distinct things. The paper may be great, but the talk terrible (or the other way around). But the paper will also take me several times the investment to read than listening to the talk.