However, they are less interactive. Poster sessions emphasize interaction, discussion, and targeting of mutual interests. Poster sessions are strongly encouraged. You may choose a poster symposium and still group your posters, and let your presenters have a specified few minutes to talk to everyone. We will schedule specific times for presenters to be with their posters so they can interact with presentations in concurrent sessions.
Panel discussions combine some of the qualities of oral and poster sessions but can be less focused.
Reflect on how your symposium is developing and make a judgment regarding the optimum format. In any case, encourage people to be more interactive and to model the best teaching practices to put the emphasis on learning, and not necessarily on teaching. You might consider such a format to maximize interaction. We plan to have four major poster sessions - Monday and Tuesday evenings and Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. We will be scheduling many of the volunteered papers as grouped poster symposia rather than oral presntations to reduce the number of concurrent sessions.