Technology Wonderings » webinar http://scheney.edublogs.org Teaching & Learning with Technology Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Bored by Webinars http://scheney.edublogs.org/2008/08/21/bored-by-webinars/ http://scheney.edublogs.org/2008/08/21/bored-by-webinars/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:42:46 +0000 scheney http://scheney.edublogs.org/?p=77 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.

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