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Can Webinars and eLearning replace Face-To-Face?

Andrew Banks
If, at the start of the year, you'd have told me that I would only attend two conferences, but present a long list of webinars and attend even more, I would have suggested you were pulling my leg. Sadly, that has been the reality of 2020 (and may well be the future, for 2021)


As a presenter, I really miss the audience interaction you can muster during a face-to-face session... this is impossible within an online/virtual webinar - especially if pre-recorded. Talking to a screen does not have the same buzz.  Is it just me?


Likewise, as a webinar attendee, while I gain the information shared, I feel that we are really missing the interaction - both within the Q&A but in the face-to-face chats afterwards that a Conference encourages.


But given the current restrictions, both Governmental and Corporate, what is the future of the face-to-face conference/workshop?
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    Good question but in a word, no. Where the focus of the learning is perhaps theoretical application or topics that are software/programme-oriented, I would expect the answer to be probably yes. However for practical elements, hands-on, face-to-face will remain the method if even only from an efficiency point of view.


    Part of my business is concerned with team-based training in our niche engineering software that has a practical application, in the design and manufacture of durable goods products.


    Whilst the instruction of 'how to use' the software can be fairly-effectively delivered via webinars/elearning/online, the application to a physical, tangible product or prototype that requires physical hands-on assembly at a detailed level by multiple trainees cannot.


    Imagine a team tasked with constructing a large product, say a jet engine or car, with the instructor giving direction from a remote location via a monitor. The mere thought gives me the dry-January shakes! (I am also painfully aware of the unreliability of Zoom, not to mention the dreaded Teams!).
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    Good question but in a word, no. Where the focus of the learning is perhaps theoretical application or topics that are software/programme-oriented, I would expect the answer to be probably yes. However for practical elements, hands-on, face-to-face will remain the method if even only from an efficiency point of view.


    Part of my business is concerned with team-based training in our niche engineering software that has a practical application, in the design and manufacture of durable goods products.


    Whilst the instruction of 'how to use' the software can be fairly-effectively delivered via webinars/elearning/online, the application to a physical, tangible product or prototype that requires physical hands-on assembly at a detailed level by multiple trainees cannot.


    Imagine a team tasked with constructing a large product, say a jet engine or car, with the instructor giving direction from a remote location via a monitor. The mere thought gives me the dry-January shakes! (I am also painfully aware of the unreliability of Zoom, not to mention the dreaded Teams!).
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