[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-598692-105":59,"doc-detail-598692-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","18-modified-world-cafe-discussion-model-for-conference-and-course-settings","18 Modified World Café Discussion Model for Conference and Course Settings","","A modified World Café facilitation model is applied to the 2012 STLHE conference Cracker Barrel Discussions, designed as 15-minute sessions repeated three times for different groups. The work outlines how organizers invited participants to explore science through writing while achieving interactivity despite limited time and space. It situates the approach within traditional World Café practices and connects it to Science 113, emphasizing writing as central to constructing coherent scientific arguments.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/18-modified-world-cafe-discussion-model-for-conference-and-course-settings/598692/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/18-modified-world-cafe-discussion-model-for-conference-and-course-settings/598692.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"awa","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-30","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":34},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What problem does the modified World Café model address in conference settings?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It supports active, interactive discussion within the constraints of short sessions repeated across different groups, collecting ideas to debrief later as a larger group outcome.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does Science 113 connect to the conference discussion theme?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"Science 113 uses writing to help students construct and articulate coherent scientific arguments, and the discussion invites participants to share value, challenges, and opportunities of introducing writing in the sciences.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What is the structure of the traditional World Café described in the paper?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Facilitators assign one question per group, participants discuss at tables on flipchart paper, a scribe records key points, then participants move to other tables while the scribe presents a brief overview based on the notes.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},598692,1792171734,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":34,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":29,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":144},3985747858093,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_3d24733baf745e90a7e4bdd5f77d97b2","18  \nModified World Café Discussion Model for Conference and Course Settings  \nAlice Cassidy & Joanne Fox  \nUniversity of British Columbia  \nA group facilitation technique called World Café usually involves dividing a large number of people into smaller groups at tables, exploring a variety of topics around a key focus, and collecting ideas from the discussions to debrief later as a large group. We used a modified version of World Café during the new Cracker Barrel session format at the 2012 STLHE conference. Inviting conference participants to explore science through writing, we met our goal of interactivity and collected ideas from 33 people in spite of the challenges of time (a 15-minute session repeated three times for different groups) and space (11 participants around one table each time). The success of involving conference participants actively in this new conference format shows its value as a conference technique and also led us to consider its utility in the classroom or other settings.  \nIntroduction  \nT he organizers  \nand Learning  \nof the 2012 Society for Teaching in Higher Education (STLHE)  \nConference launched a new session format called Cracker Barrel Discussions: 15-minute sessions repeated three times for different groups. We led one of these, our goal being interactivity; we also wished to share information about our course, Science 113: First Year Seminar in Science. We achieved these two goals by using a modified World Café discussion model (Cassidy, 2012), capped with a one-page handout overview of the course (Appendix) .  \nIn this paper, we describe the modified World Café model we used in our Cracker Barrel Discussion. In doing so, we also introduce aspects of Science 113, focusing  \non how we introduce writing to first-year students in the sciences, and examples of the ideas that Café participants came up with. We show that, in spite of challenges of space and time, rich discussion can take place in a conference session, and the cumulative contributions from participants we captured are a great set of key points as one outcome.  \nWe place our modified World Café model in the context of the uses of traditional World Café and consider its utility in other settings such as the classroom.  \nScience 113: A Focus on Writing in the Sciences  \nThis overview provides the context for how and why we used a modified World Café format in our session.  \nDesigned following best practices in course design, the First Year Seminar in Science (SCIE 113) at the University of British Columbia provides students with the opportunity to explore the nature of science and the role science plays in society ([http://science.ubc.ca/students/](http://science.ubc.ca/students/)[ ](http://science.ubc.ca/students/)[new/first/113](new/first/113)) .  \nWith writing being an integral component of the course, a key focus is for students to construct and articulate a coherent scientific argument. Students are given multiple opportunities through carefully designed in-class activities to achieve this learning goal throughout the term.  \nOur ethics-approved research shows that students in this course demonstrate significant improvements in their overall understanding of science and scientific inquiry. They come in with a solid understanding about the role of change, observations, and inferences in science and made significant gains in their understanding of social and cultural influences, laws versus theories, and methodology by the end of the course consistent with our learning objectives (Fox, Birol, Han, Cassidy, & Samuels, 2012; Birol, Han, Welsh, & Fox, 2013) .  \nWriting in the sciences is a topic that we feel has the capacity to re-draw boundaries, which was the theme of the 2012 STLHE Conference. Hence, we invited participants in our discussion to talk about the value, challenges, and opportunities of introducing writing in the sciences. By the end of each 15-minute session, we hoped participants would take parts of our experience, a","cbCairCHZLSePNJB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairCHZLSePNJB","pdf",151622,"English","# Introduction\n## The organizers and the 2012 STLHE Conference\n# Science 113: A Focus on Writing in the Sciences\n## Course context and learning goals\n## Evidence of student improvements\n# World Café for Active Group Discussion\n## Traditional World Café and its adaptations\n## Session structure and discussion questions","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the modified World Café model address in conference settings?\",\"answer\":\"It supports active, interactive discussion within the constraints of short sessions repeated across different groups, collecting ideas to debrief later as a larger group outcome.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Science 113 connect to the conference discussion theme?\",\"answer\":\"Science 113 uses writing to help students construct and articulate coherent scientific arguments, and the discussion invites participants to share value, challenges, and opportunities of introducing writing in the sciences.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the structure of the traditional World Café described in the paper?\",\"answer\":\"Facilitators assign one question per group, participants discuss at tables on flipchart paper, a scribe records key points, then participants move to other tables while the scribe presents a brief overview based on the notes.\"}]","18 Modified World Café Discussion Model for Conference and Course Settings | PDF",1792087399,15]