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Webinar as a term seem to be relatively new. Whilst researching material on the subject i find the use of the term webinar extremely rare prior to 2000. Before that the method did exist and was in common use however it seems more likely to be referred to as ‘web conference’ or ’synchronous e-learning’. A succinct definition provided in a 2004 publication that explores the subject is as follows;

Conduct a “webinar One step beyond a telephone seminar is a webinar. A webinar is a combination telephone and \\’eb browser seminar. Similar to a telephone seminar, participants call into a conference coordinator to hear the audio of the presentation.

At the same time, they connect to a website that displays the presenter’s slides. The slide presentation is synchronized and controlled by the presenter as if the presenter was in the room with the participants (Florzak 2004, p. 158)

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