“…The middle of the 1990s witnessed the slow advent of Internet-based education and early applications of online distance learning (Alnabelsi et al, 2015). Since then, there has been a significant increase in the number of available e-learning resources and educational technologies (Ruiz et al, 2006;Gegenfurtner et al, 2019b;Testers et al, 2019), which have gained more importance in the higher education and professional training contexts (Wang and Hsu, 2008;Nelson, 2010;Siewiorek and Gegenfurtner, 2010;Stout et al, 2012;Knogler et al, 2013;McMahon-Howard and Reimers, 2013;Olson and McCracken, 2015;Testers et al, 2015;McKinney, 2017;Goe et al, 2018). To date, various possibilities regarding the implementation of e-learning in educational contexts exist, one of which is the use of webinars-a prototypical form of synchronous online courses.…”