Lesson 1: Overview of Effective Webinar Training
4. Requirements for Effective Webinar Training
Which of the following are required for a training webinar to be effective?
(You may select more than one option)
- Participants give high ratings in the post-webinar evaluation form.
- Most participants stay connected until the end of the webinar.
- Participants gained the intended skills and/or knowledge.
- The instructor covered all of the intended material.
- The webinar had a high number of registrants.
The correct answer is 3. Participants gained the intended skills and/or knowledge.
The purpose of instruction is to enable students to build new knowledge and skills. In other words, they can do something they could not do before receiving the instruction. For example, they can use what they learn to further their study of more advanced topics or perform a new skill. This is true whether the training is delivered face-to-face or virtually using a webinar.
Effective training also requires that students learned what the instruction intended them to learn. It is quite possible you could attend a webinar and learn something new, but it wasn't what you were supposed to learn. Although learning is always worthwhile, good instruction is designed with specific learning outcomes in mind. If it fails to teach what was intended, it cannot be considered effective.