Invited specialists are available during subgroup and plenary discussions to contribute the benefit of their knowledge and experience.
Data collection was by means of notes taken during a plenary discussion, and we solicited stakeholders' views by inviting the participants to discuss the tool with us after the discussion (face-to-face or by email after the event), and provided sticky notes to be stuck onto a flip-chart – conduits for public and more private feedback.
© Fan Wenjun Participants gather for plenary discussions during the 4-6 November 2010 High-Level Meeting on Cooperation for Child Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region at the Westin Chaoyang Hotel, Beijing.
There were some notable omissions on the conference guest list, including any representative from Fifa during a plenary discussion on corruption in sport, while the organisation is plagued by a deep-seated bribery scandal.
"Take the initiative," "Be more selfish," "Promote yourself," and "Don't just consume resources" were some of the other tips that came out during the plenary discussion.
As described previously [ 6], students reported during a plenary discussion supervised by MM that they valued the learning from the video cases.
Perhaps attendance and time management as measures of responsible behaviour should be evaluated separately from feedback on other aspects of professional behaviour, a suggestion that was also put forward during the plenary discussion at a recent symposium on professionalism (Centre for Excellence in Developing Professionalism 2010; van Mook and van Luijk 2010).
Another limitation was the dual nature of the intervention, as it contains a part where individual students generate a question and formulate it in writing, and a second part consisting of prioritization of questions during a plenary discussion in the small group.
Mr. Gates was in the thick of the plenary discussions at the 2005 Davos forum -- considering ways of eliminating poverty and disease that do not encompass information technology.
About 50 participants from industry, regulatory bodies and academia listened to 14 lectures on selected topics and joined the plenary discussions.
