Review of "Evaluating Webinar-based Training. A Mixed Methods Study of Trainee Reactions toward Digital Web Conferencing"

Résumé ou Introduction

This is a review of an article about webinar-based training. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the reactions of training participants toward webinars in order to contribute to the growing body of evidence on digital webinar-based training. Furthermore, the study was designed to estimate satisfaction levels. A certain interest was in investigating how the estimated reactions could be used to produce empirical, evidence-based recommendations for the delivery of webinars in training, adult education and human resource development. The researcher also used mixed methods of research to make the findings widely applicable.

The research is evaluating webinar-based training by applying a mixed approach research methods which employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches to evaluate trainee reactions toward digital web conferencing. It also assesses the reactions of training participants towards digital webinar based trainings. To achieve the objective the researcher participates 419 trainees toward 48 webinars in four content areas like industrial management, supply chain management, early childhood education and mathematics.

Nowadays, human resource management is enhanced by technologies to deliver fast and relatively accurate information on time. Digital technologies became a common tools for the human resources development purpose in general and training in specific. Among multi technological tools, webinar is used for training purposes. Webinar is used to communicate between students and teachers from far places via connected platforms through voice or video communication.