Teachers need to know these advantages of teaching via webinar hosting platforms

Posted by Joseph Smith
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Oct 21, 2015
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Your students have been going on and on about webinars and how useful a learning tool they are. You have also heard a few of your university colleagues give lectures through such platforms.

Satisfy your curiosity further by reading the various benefits that webinars have as e-learning tools before you decide whether you want to host one yourself.
No-time constraints

This happens every other day, just as a student is making an interesting point that you would like to explore, the period bell goes off. Webinar hosting platforms easily address this concern for you. The duration of your webinar can be chosen by you and if your participants are willing, it can go on for a couple of hours. This helps you discuss, debate and explore the topic at hand without having to worry about the class ending. Also, because of the flexibility in terms of what time you choose to host the webinar, more students are likely to join the discussion.

Illustrate your examples

Do you remember how Robin Williams creates an atmosphere that helps the students fall in love with the pieces that he teaches, in the movie The Dead Poet’s Society? Teaching via free webinar hosting events will help you create that atmosphere much more easily with the help of infographics and other audio-visual aids. Research has repeatedly proved that pedagogy is better received when such tools are used to impart information.

Share the resources

Webinar hosting platforms enable you to share an exhaustive list of resources that you can share with your students. Your students too can add to these resources if they find anything that may be of relevance. This facilitates a better usage of study materials as people can easily keep a tab on them. So whether it is a reading list, or PDF files of research material, relevant videos and all other forms of facts and figures, share as much as you like without the hassle of getting print outs.

Connect to communicate

Social media platforms are the preferred medium of communication. Webinar software help you connect all your accounts together to publicize your event. Research techniques such as surveys, questionnaires, etc. can all be conducted via the help of such platforms. This only increases the student engagement ratio, as you connect with them through mediums that they are most comfortable with. 

Geographically superior 

Webinar software can be used by any person living in any part of the world. This helps you cater to a large number of people instead of limiting the number to a classroom full of people. Also because the attendees join by choice, the interaction is more fruitful as the participants communicate deliberately as they are all interested in the topic at hand.

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