The following conference announcement comes by way of Elyssebeth Leigh over at the University of Technology, Sydney on the Serious Games listserv:
You are invited to an active and engaging conference on “Improving the Classroom-as-Organization to deliver transformative learning” Using eXperience Based learning (XB – Manual For A Learning Organization) for engaging students with the theories and practices of Organizational Behavior
VENUE: Jericho, near Burlington, VT (USA)
DATES: July 22nd to July 25th, 2008.
BACKGROUND: Several dozen of us OB, Management, Education, and Human Resources educators approach our classes as organizations to manage rather than courses to teach. Cohen et al.’s Effective Behavior in Organizations introduced this concept; Putzel’s XB – Manual For A Learning Organization focuses it on experience-based learning in a
functionally differentiated classroom organization. Other teachers have invented their own classroom organizations.
DETAILS: We invite anyone interested in knowing more about these experiential teaching/learning strategies, and in discussing how to manage a class instead of teaching it, who believes in experiential and conceptual learning, and who wants to spend a few days with enthusiastic colleagues in the hills of Vermont near Lake Champlain and Montréal.
We will build the conference around the needs and desires of participants, whoever we are, interested in the classroom-as-organization approach (not necessarily XB). Several of us will be running sessions on the classroom-as-organization at the Babson Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference. This meeting will help us set the agenda for the Vermont conference.Please see www.xbforum.net for information about XB. If you are interested in attending the conference, please contact Roger Putzel (rputzel-at-smcvt.edu).
