Have you ever enrolled in a webinar (a virtual seminar), only to find that you could have learned more from picking up a book? A new article from the e-Learning Queen discusses this common problem:

"All too often the assumption is made that if individuals can come together in a virtual space, they'll get as much from the experience as being in the same room together. However, just as meetings can be unproductive, and classrooms boring, a virtual meeting can fall flat. Weak webinars are doubly frustrating because they implicitly communicate a negative message about learning and information technologies. Such a message is doubly ironic in a time of iPhones and ubiquitous wifi, incessant video and text-messaging."

Unsuccessful webinars aren't the fault of technology - they're usually the result of poor planning. Check out the components of a successful webinar in this helpful article, Professional Development and Corporate Training: The Webinar Weakness.