Karlheinz Pape said:
In my experience BarCamps are very good learning environments. Participants said they had never before learned so many as in the BarCamp. I can confirm this for my personal learning. It is another way of learning than in schools or in higher educational organizations. In BarCamps is learning mostly very intensive and an active process. It is powerful but it isn’t stressful. Two days classical conference are often exhausting. Why is it so? In BarCamps everybody is free. Free to lead a session, free to go in a session, free to listen and free to engage himself in sessions or with others on the floor. The own interests are leading everybody all the time. Interests are the beginning of learning. And freedom for self-organizing seems the right frame for powerful self-driven learning.