If you have already looked at our course cataloge and various learning methods and solutions, you will have come across two different virtual learning solutions that we offer:
- Virtual Live Training (VLT)
- On-Demand Learning (ODL)
Both methods allow you to participate in our IT learning courses remotely: from the comfort of your own computer at home, or alternatively at the office. This means that you can save time as well as costs, because you do not have to travel to any particular training location.
Virtual Live Training: Virtual Learning with a Classroom Experience
The main difference between the two methods lies in the scheduling of your study time:
As the name indicates, the student’s participation in the “Virtual Live Training” (or short “VLT”) takes place live, i.e. in real time. The students are part of the same class that is being held at one of the various TechSherpas training facilities on that particular date. The Virtual Live Training participants attend remotely via VOIP technology, and can still benefit from the experience of a classroom environment:
- Interaction: The students can listen, as well as, ask the instructor questions, just like in a regular class. If necessary, the instructor can even view and take control of the distant desktop with the help of remote desktop software.
- Face-to-Face experience: With the help of webcams, the students can look at their instructor, as well as, at other students who are attending the class on-site.
Benefiting from the “live” format means that you have to choose among various predetermined dates and adhere to a fixed schedule. This might mean less flexibility regarding your time planning, but the benefit of added flexibility when it comes to class interaction and the option of asking the instructor direct questions.
On-Demand Learning: Virtual Learning when it suits you best
The option of On-Demand Learning offers the greatest flexibility in respect to your learning schedule. This can be a major advantage to those students who need to fit their continuing education into their busy workweek, around family obligations – or both.
The classes consist of prerecorded videos plus exercises. Therefore, there is no instructor present in real-time to answer any questions, but this method allows the participants to set their own study pace. They can pause the videos and take the next lesson when it suits them best.
This scheduling flexibility is probably the deciding criteria when it comes to choosing which of the two remote, virtual learning methods is the best for you. However, if the option of instructor interaction is of particular importance to you, you might want to “test-drive” our On-Demand Learning offer first: Simply send us an email to ondemand@ittraining365.com/blog, and we will send you a special Course Demo Code so you can give it a try.
Sources and further reading:
https://techsherpas.com/learning-methods/virtual-live-training/
https://techsherpas.com/on-demand/
https://techsherpas.com/on-demand-bundles/
https://techsherpas.com/on-demand-unlimited/