My New Question for CPE Polls

Lately, I have been doing a number of webcasts which offer CPE to those in attendance.

One of the requirements is that the participants answer poll questions during the session in order to prove they paid attention. The questions do not have to relate to the material in any way and are not quizzes with right and wrong answers, just survey questions.

As a presenter I find being interrupted four times for about a minute each time to be iksome to say the least. The webcast I am doing are 60 to 90 minute sessions and quite frankly the polls just interrupt my flow. I know #firstworldproblem.

Still I was wondering how the participants felt about this practice. After all, most of them are highly educated individuals who are trying to further their knowledge on the subjects about which I speak. Furthermore, as professionals they have some fairly high ethical standards to which I imagine they hold themselves. To me, it seems quite insulting to break from the material in order for the learners to “prove” they were paying attention.

Well, my twisted mind led me to create a poll questions which serves as a mini protest for both me as a presenter and for the participants. Feel free to use this in your own polls if you do educational programs requiring CPE. Here is the question with the results from my latest webcast.

I find it interesting that only 42 percent find this to be disagreeable to them in some way.

What do you think?