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The Role of Webinars in Distributing Educational Content
Webinar is short for Web-based seminar and sometimes referred to as an online workshop. A webinar is 
similar to a traditional conference room seminar, but enables the participants to view the presentation through their 
web-browser and listen to the audio through their computer speakers or telephone. It is a web-based distribution of 
content to participants with the added benefit of interactivity. In contrast to Web-casts, in which data transmission is 
one-way, thus preventing presenter and audience interaction, webinars provide two-way data transmission enabling 
presenter and audience to communicate and share information in a peer-to-peer fashion. Webinars may also be 
asynchronous (not in real time), allowing participants (learners) to access the content whenever it is convenient 
although the peer-to-peer interaction is not available. In compliance with the purpose, the presenter can offer a range 

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