Instructor-led Training or 'classroom training' is a learning method all of us are very familiar with. Relatively little has changed in the classrooms since the days of Aristotle. Although over the last few decades, technology is increasingly being used inside the classroom as well. It is still a very powerful way to impart knowledge and ensure new skills are acquired.

The trainee is learning via the internet, usually at a time and place of his/her own choosing. For example for organisations this is a wonderful method to transfer more standardised knowledge across larger populations. It's also eminently suited for microlearning. Depending on the size of the population and the level of knowledge required, this can be a very cost-effective solution. 

During Virtual Instructor-led Training or 'VILT' sessions, the trainees could be anywhere, but must be there at the same time. More and more organisations are turning to VILT to efficiently and effectively transfer skills and knowledge, even to smaller audiences. A VILT session could be turned into self-paced e-learning as well and thus potentially into microlearning.