ATTENDING WEBINARS FOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Rubelyn M. Abalorio
Teacher-1
Pedro B. Liwanag Memorial School

The pandemic impact has already been felt on all sectors of society, including the
education sector. This pandemic is a sign of changing times and requires the educational
system to undergo a significant revolution. During this time, teachers from various
educational institutions are also getting an opportunity to be a student. This role is
satisfied by their exceptional cooperation in numerous seminars (commonly called
webinars), workshops, faculty improvement programs, etc., which are solely conducted
to upgrade their learning experiences amid this time. Among these online and
technological tools, webinars are vital ones to bolster online learning. The word webinar
is coined from the words web and seminar, and it is additionally alluded to as a webcast.
Webinar-based training can supplement the educators' competencies and update
their virtual teaching strategies without face-to-face seminars and workshops when social
distancing and home quarantine globally. Improving the teachers' theoretical knowledge
and teachers' practical skills can be done by applying webinars. Since this modern
professional development method gives teachers upgraded training through a virtual
space, they can proceed with learning even in isolation and create responsive
pedagogical abilities significant for crisis e-learning.
Webinars can be a valuable device, and it can make it conceivable to educate and
display when the members are in different areas. This situation can permit various
specialists to hold addresses in their domestic environment, hence decreasing all the
issues and voyaging costs. Under other circumstances, understudies may take after their
courses from any place given they have access to a computer with an online association.
This may permit understudies in farther regions to get to address by world specialists.
The use of webinars permits the speaker to communicate with their understudies
at an organized time-space. These sessions can share data, provide input to the
understudies, and display an address. This allows quick interactivity that's missing from
nonconcurrent learning. The webinar's utilization brings the e-learning environment a step
closer to the conventional classroom setting.
Educators are fascinated in attending webinars, both pedagogical and innovative
webinar that will strengthen their knowledge about teaching. Teachers can cater
children's digital skills which are on the brink of cyber risk into the educational
opportunities to get success in future ventures especially in this pandemic where children
are wholly dependent on online learning. This move to the new typical, from the four
corners of the classroom to the virtual reality borders, every learning institution needs to
study how successful online learning is in providing quality education and outcome-based
education to students.