Webinar

A one-to-many communication space with manifold purposes

A webinar is an event or training session where a central speaker presents information to a registered number of attendees. A webinar can serve multiple purposes, and as such, it can follow different structures and include various types of content and material. In this event, attendees may have the opportunity to ask questions or answer short polls as a way of interaction. However, active participation or collaboration with other attendees is not foreseen as the main focus.

Use this event to:

• Introduce participants to a course before a face-to-face training.
• Present a project to colleagues distributed around the world.
• Integrate training into busy schedules.
• Engage in a meeting or conference.
• Train on or explain processes, projects, or theory.

Example

ETUI online courses based on Moodle include one webinar delivered during their 5-6 weeks length. The webinar is the only synchronous interaction with the participants and is designed to be an added value to the course content. The duration of the live session is 1 hour and structured in two parts: 

• an expert´s input (usually based on questions previously collected from the group enrolled in the course) and 
• a Q&A moment with facilitation of a moderator (providing the participants attending live with the opportunity of additional exchanges with the expert).

You and other collaborators

• Speaker(s): present information.
• Moderator: welcomes all participants, presents the topic, speaker(s), and agenda, and makes sure that the event runs on time following a structure.
• IT-manager: facilitates, fixes, and manages the technology, and records the event.
• Communication specialist: promotes the event, emails participants after the event (thanks for attendance, asks for feedback), shares (optionally) the link to the recording of the webinar.