2021 Volume 70 Issue 1 Pages 123-127
The COVID-19 pandemic broke out in Japan in late February 2020. We had to cease or postpone meetings, workshops, and seminars. Given this situation, we held an online seminar using the Web Meeting System and Social Networking Service in our communication group. We held three online seminars from March to May 2020 and then conducted a survey of the participants. The advantages of the online seminar were that the burden on participants was reduced because they could attend from home or work, they could participate from a distance, and slides were easy to see compared with in conventional seminars. In addition, since real-time distribution from the laboratory room was possible, demonstration-style seminars could be held easily. The disadvantages of the online seminar were that a speaker could not see the reaction of the participants, the number of terminal units was limited, and participants and speakers could not interact. The online seminar was highly useful. In the post-COVID-19 era, we should seek new seminar methods that combine conventional and online seminars.
