Worst corporate buzzword competition?

[ad hoc]

Webinar is doubly bad, because not only is it some idiotic mash up word to try and describe something new it is (in my experience, and I have attended many and given a fair few) absolutely nothing like a seminar at all. It's almost always a lecture and apart maybe from a brief Q&A at the end, completely not interactive. the whole point of a seminar is to supplement the dry interaction free lecture model and create an opportunity for discussion.

[Bored Of Education]

Yes, it is interesting that Zoom/Skype/Teams sessions - for all their faults and glitches - are more like internet seminars than what are normally called webinars. Which goes to show that it is usually best to let the concept and vocabulary evolve organically.

[Hot Pepsi]

Webinar is doubly bad, because not only is it some idiotic mash up word to try and describe something new it is (in my experience, and I have attended many and given a fair few) absolutely nothing like a seminar at all. It's almost always a lecture and apart maybe from a brief Q&A at the end, completely not interactive. the whole point of a seminar is to supplement the dry interaction free lecture model and create an opportunity for discussion.

I’ve been to meetings (in person, I mean) with events called seminars that are really just a lecture with Q&A or maybe some discussion among a few people in the front plus q&a. So maybe the erosion of understanding of what a “seminar” is supposed to be is the problem.