Webinars in higher education and professional training: A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Gegenfurtner, Andreas; Ebner, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2019.100293

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“…33% participants stated that the webinars are better than regular actual conferences and this was consistent with the 58.5%, 63.8% were the results of the participants for (GOOD answer) for improving clinical and surgical skills which implicit that they got benefi t from the online webinars during the period of pandemic and this is consistent with Christian Ebner and Andreas Gegenfurtner in their study " Learning and Satisfaction in Webinar, Online, and Face-to-Face Instruction": it was a Meta-Analysis study concluding that learning outcomes were better in webinars compared to faceto-face conferences [9].…”

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On line webinars during time of COVID-19: Does it increase the clinical and surgical skills of egyptian ophthalmologists?

Mossa¹,

Ali²,

Hammad³

2020

J Clin Res Ophthalmol

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Introduction: Since the appearance of COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020 conferences, and events are canceled targeting the social distance to limit the spread and decrease the danger of the newly emerging virus webinars instead spread all over the world as an educational tool with no risk of communications. Purpose: to evaluate the effi cacy of webinars in increasing the clinical and surgical skills of Egyptian ophthalmologists during the time of obligatory social distancing of COVID-19. Results: most of ophthalmologists in this survey consider the webinars is a good educational tool and hoping to progress after COVID-19 Pandemic. Most of them followed their topics of interest rather than the speaker or the organizing company and interested till the end due to the more comfortable situations. Conclusion: Webinars are readily available technology inexpensive, benefi cial experience added to the clinical and surgical skills of Egyptian ophthalmologists who are hoping to be continued even after the COVID-19 pandemic time.

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On line webinars during time of COVID-19: Does it increase the clinical and surgical skills of egyptian ophthalmologists?

Mossa¹,

Ali²,

Hammad³

2020

J Clin Res Ophthalmol

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“…There has been enough growing interest in this tool among educators that a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of webinars was published by Gregenfurtner et al in 2019. 1 The meta-analysis yielded a few interesting results and affirmed existing beliefs on the positive impact of this educational tool on learners. Nonetheless, online learning cannot replace the benefits of attending medical conferences in person.…”

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Academics during the Pandemic: Adapting to a “New Norm”

Babu

Keshava

Kalva

2020

Journal of Clinical Interventional Radiology ISVIR

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“…A contrast of webinars versus online synchronous learning and face-to-face instruction showed that webinars were net positive in terms of learner outcomes and marginally more effective in 15 independent contrasts summarizing between 500 and 700 participants (Gegenfurtner & Ebner, 2019…”

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“…We must further strive to maximize benefits not just in attendance but in learning and consolidation with positive, mediated social connections (Greenhow et al, 2019). The second key finding reported in a relevant meta-analysis was that webinars work (Gegenfurtner & Ebner, 2019).…”

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Online conferences for better learning

Lortie

2020

Ecology and Evolution

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A crisis is never welcomed, and we must now rally to innovate how we do science. We need to work harder to make conferences better and not only address the immediate challenges but tackle pre-existing limitations associated with conferences and meetings. Conferences are a profoundly useful mechanism to enable scientific progress as a community. These conventions provide the opportunity to network, collaborate, communicate, connect early-career researchers with new (and established) collaborators, and most importantly co-learn and build community. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are scientists, citizens, educators, and a collective that can affect social good. Hence, conferences allow us to convene and share and learn in different and extended ways (Cooke et al., 2017). These meetings are typically about more than scientific content and facilitate the identification of research gaps and opportunities (Kochetkov et al., 2020; Oester et al., 2017). In some respects, coming together also helps us decide how we feel about the global grand challenges that we face environmentally and as a species (Acocella, 2015). We build collective strength and cohesion. Conferences in ecology and evolution are also incredibly frequent. A brief search on sites that compile conference listings for ecology and evolution including the Nature Ecology and Evolution website, relevant society sites, and The World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology (filtered using the key term "ecology") suggest that there were approximately 400 meetings scheduled for the calendar year of 2020 (Lortie, 2020c). However, as citizens, we have a moral responsibility to flatten the curve of a pandemic through reduced in-person interactions, smaller conventions only for critical needs, and much less travel to mitigate spread and reduce risks for everyone (Khoo & Lantos, 2020; Verma et al., 2020). More broadly, we can reconsider the carbon costs and other impacts including accessibility and the equity of costs to convene exclusively through faceto-face meetings (Julsrud et al., 2014; Neugebauer et al., 2020). In doing so, we have an opportunity to promote equity, diversity, and inclusivity through different planning, by reducing some of the financial costs, and by sharing our insights to wider, more varied com

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Webinars in higher education and professional training: A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Cited by 164 publications

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On line webinars during time of COVID-19: Does it increase the clinical and surgical skills of egyptian ophthalmologists?

On line webinars during time of COVID-19: Does it increase the clinical and surgical skills of egyptian ophthalmologists?

Academics during the Pandemic: Adapting to a “New Norm”

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