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Webinar vs Lecture - What's the difference?

webinar | lecture |

As nouns the difference between webinar and lecture

is that webinar is an interactive seminar conducted via the World Wide Web. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through chatting, video-chatting, file-sharing, or asking questions with a microphone while lecture is (a spoken lesson) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.

As a verb lecture is

(to teach) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

webinar

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Alternative forms

* sometimes capitalized: Webinar

Noun

(wikipedia webinar) (en noun)
  • An interactive seminar conducted via the World Wide Web. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through chatting, video-chatting, file-sharing, or asking questions with a microphone.
  • I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.
  • * 2002 , Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content [http://print.google.com/print?id=61WSVFLVVn8C&pg=PA274&lpg=PA274&sig=srg1AwSMEcWWtFSXInCxYDFXaMo]:
  • Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.
  • * 2003 , Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM [http://print.google.com/print?id=hjgcsD02yjUC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&sig=BpRLdepR6kOg5bs90hH9qiV5dVY]:
  • Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.
  • * 2003 , Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women [http://print.google.com/print?id=hQKnE5aIu5IC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&sig=0Xj5El2z1UkcFVD8xg5WN74mMZQ]:
  • It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars , it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.
  • * 2006 , Selling Power , Volume 26, Issues 1-9, page 44:
  • Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.
  • * 2011 , Jon Wuebben, Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile , page 28:
  • One other point: An impressive site design can never rescue poorly written copy, sloppy videos, or boring webinar recordings.
  • * 2013 , Kristin Kipp, Teaching on the Education Frontier , page 82:
  • Although there are many other tools that are available in a webinar tool, these are the ones you'll find yourself using most often.

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    lecture

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • A berating or scolding.
  • (obsolete) The act of reading.
  • Verb

    (lectur)
  • (senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
  • To preach, to berate, to scold.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

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    Derived terms

    * lecturer