I must be a really bad student.  Webinars, in theory, offer great topics and information and are a nice (free) way to bring experts into the classroom (or office in my case).  Offers to participate in webinars are flooding my inbox from organizations like CLO, Campus Technology, eLearning.  I get all excited because I LOVE their magazines and read them every month.  So why can’t I get into the webinars?!  Topics are interesting but I guess my expectations are too high.  Or maybe….Someone in our office was talking yesterday about a faculty member who recorded their lecture and tracked who downloaded it each week.  He found that 10% of students downloaded consistently. Makes sense when you think about different learning styles, only 10% of people are auditory learners…

So I’m wondering how many of the 599 people attending the webinar I’m listening to now, are writing blog posts, checking their e-mail, or snoozing at their desk?  About 90% I’d say.