What is VILT training? | Manaarah

In this article, we will understand the meaning of VILT training, its main elements, and how to make it effective.

What is VILT training?  VILT online training refers to live online lectures, remote training, and webinars, those are just a few names of the many names it has. In simple words, VILT is training that is provided remotely through platforms like Zoom. It has some similarities to traditional training, like an instructor providing the training and the materials that are given to the students. The only difference is that in this case it is delivered via video platforms.

During the Covid-19 schools, all the universities, meetings, work, and training turned to online learning after that people have seen that online training is more effective than traditional training in many ways. For example, it is cost-effective (you won’t pay any money for transportation), and it gives the learner flexibility to learn anywhere and any way he/she likes.

Normally, training VILT takes from one to two hours maximum, unlike traditional training that may last half a day.

VILT training means

VILT is short for ‘virtual instructor-led training, what does it mean? Well, it’s like traditional training, it has an instructor and learning materials but instead of delivering the training face to face, it is provided through video conferencing platforms like Zoom meetings. And the learner can learn anywhere through any device.

VILT training platforms

Choosing the suitable platform is the key element to the success of your VILTer training, it gives you the flexibility to make the training as interactive as you like and makes it easy for the learners to participate and interact with you easily. Therefore, you should spend some time choosing the right software to work with. Here are the best platforms that are used widely:

1-  Zoom

Zoom meetings give you the ability to make online video meetings or calls, it’s the most widely used platform for its simplicity and many tools it provides to make the meeting more interactive.

The free options limit the number of people who can join the meeting and have time limits. For example, the maximum number to attend the free meeting is 100 and the time is 40 minutes. If your training exceeds these numbers you can upgrade to one of the paid options, they offer like Zoom Pro, Zoom Business, or Zoom Enterprise.

Zoom meetings allow people to record, share screens, breakout rooms, on-screen annotations, chat, and use emojis. It’s one of the best Virtual Training platforms for its many tools, reliability, and for being ease to use.

2- Microsoft Teams

Another famous virtual training platform that is widely used in conducting VILT learning. It allows the user to make audio or video meetings, and many trainers find it easy to use.

And like Zoom, you have a free version and paid upgrades which are Office 365 Business Essentials or Office 365 Business Premium. It provides the trainer with many tools to conduct interactive virtual training like the use of integrated apps like forms, and excel. There’s also the option to use chat, share screen, using emojis, and also the side meetings room (like breakout rooms).

3-Cisco WebEx Training Centre

An online platform that allows you to conduct a virtual meeting and it provides the trainer with many tools like video, audio meetings, breakout rooms, chat, and polling. But it doesn’t have a free version.

4-Adobe Connect

Another platform that allows you to conduct virtual training with the help of its audio and video meetings. It operates on any device, however, it’s more expensive than the other platforms. Among the many tools it offers are video, audio meetings, breakout rooms, chat, and polling.

Now you know what are the best platforms to use, take your time and choose the most suitable one for your training that have all the tools you need and start your training.

VILT training activities

To conduct an interactive virtual instructor-led training VILT there is a bunch of activities to use, here are some of them.

1-Brainstorm

You can use the whiteboards to write all the ideas and ongoing discussions to brainstorm new ideas. Write all the ideas you get from the learners and then you can start ranking them based on the topic that is more important or that serves the goal of the VILT training.

2-Breakout rooms

Divide the learners into groups, give each group an activity to do, then make them discuss it in the breakout rooms to share their ideas and opinions and come up with a solution.

3-Competition

To encourage the learners to interact with the VILT training you can ask a question for example and give them time to think about it and the one who comes with the solution gets let’s say 10 points. This will encourage them to interact more. You can also make some games and divide the class into groups, assign a leader for each one then you could ask a question and let each team think about the answer and raise their hand to answer. If they answer it correctly move to the other question but if they don’t let another team answer it, and so on.

4-Use visuals

The human brain processes images and visuals much faster than texts, you can use that as a way to interact with the learners. For example, you could start with an image that reflects the lesson and ask them, “from the Image, what do you think we will learn today?”.

What is a Vilt session?

A VILT session is an online lecture that’s conducted through the use of one of the conferencing platforms.

How do you make Vilt?

Here is what you should consider making the best VILT training:

•       Choose the Right Platform for the training.
•       It’s better to keep the class size small especially if it’s practical training.
•       Engage with the Learners and make the training interactive.
•       Make Materials Available.

How do you make Vilt interesting?

Here are some tips to make learners interact with you throughout the session:

Breakout rooms

Divide the learners into groups, give each group an activity to do, then make them discuss it in the breakout rooms to share their ideas and opinions and come up with a solution.

Competition

To encourage the learners to interact with the VILT training you can ask a question for example and give them time to think about it and the one who comes with the solution gets let’s say 10 points. This will encourage them to interact more. You can also make some games and divide the class into groups, assign a leader for each one then you could ask a question and let each team think about the answer and raise their hand to answer. If they answer it correctly move to the other question but if they don’t let another team answer it, and so on.

Host Q&A sessions

To make the learners engage with you take advantage of the many tools the platform provides you with. For example, you can use polls, breakout rooms, or create online forums. Give the learners a task and let each group work on it then present it Infront of the rest of the class.

Use the right platform

We talked about the different platforms that you could use to make your VILT training, spend some time choosing the one that suits your training more and ensure that it has all the tools you need.

Feedback

After you end each session ask the learners about their opinion, did they understand the lesson, do they have any ideas to enhance the lecture, do they think that the session is missing something, does anyone have a question about the lesson, and so on.

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What is the difference between virtual training and webinar?

VILT is a training that is provided remotely through platforms like Zoom, it consists of a group of lectures. While webinars are one-time online lectures.

VILT allow the participants to ask and engage throughout the sessions, and allow them to interact with each other through the use of breakout rooms. While the webinar is set to deliver information about a topic and doesn’t allow the participants to interact with each other.

The size of the audience differs between the two. In webinars, the size of participants is big while in virtual training it’s small.