<span>This research tests the proposition that the integration of a multimedia assessment activity into a Diploma of Events Management program promotes a deep learning approach. Firstly, learners' preferences for deep or surface learning were evaluated using the revised two-factor Study Process Questionnaire. Secondly, after completion of an assessment exercise comprising a multimedia presentation with digital images and oral commentary, the respondents' self-described approaches to learning were collected using semi-structured interviews. Using these two data sets, learners preferred and implemented learning approaches were compared. Results show that whilst the multimedia assessment exercise did not prohibit the adoption of a deep learning approach, it tended to enable the adoption of both deep and surface learning approaches. In addition to informing our understanding of the relationship between deep and surface learning preferences and the implementation of a multimedia assessment item, the data gathered also provide some clues related to the sorts of factors that the respondents considered and how they responded to these factors in their undertaking of the assessment exercise.</span>

This study examines the use and impact of multimodal, digitally structured conferences within an existing traditional face-to-face conference paradigm. Thirty-five semistructured interviews were conducted with senior Australian convention industry stakeholders. The purpose was to explore the use of digital communication technology (DCT) within hybrid and virtual conferences and their relationship with the traditional conference paradigm of face-to-face conferences. Three main findings resulted from the research. Firstly, face-to-face conferences numerically dominate the industry, while hybrid and virtual conferences represent a miniscule proportion of the conference industry. Secondly, a correlation exists between the interviewee's job role and their level of support for any of the three conference modes. Lastly, the conference industry as a whole has been slow to engage with both hybrid and virtual conferencing and skeptical as far as embracing DCT utilized within the conference delivery mode.