Friday, September 09, 2005

Competition at our neck

Phillipe Julien, EAGE education officer, and colleagues from Total, J. Estival, J.F. Coste, andH. Lecanu discuss how their company is approaching the training of the next generation of geoscientists in its worlwide organization. [...]

It rapidly emerged that the new ‘blended learning’ solution, combining distant and onsite classrooms, use of e-facilities and good quality distance coaching, was powerful in such a context.

They're presenting at the Sept 2005 AAPG in Paris. Details here

2 Comments:

Blogger Rob de Rijke said...

Very Interesting Seb! This does sound familiar... Did we not have this passport idea as well?

"...the so-called Training Passport, designed to fill the gap between initial and expected skills....

...corresponding to about 6 months training distributed over a 3 year period: for each new recruit, the technical skills and the personal development objectives are listed
"

Monday, September 12, 2005 9:35:00 AM  
Blogger Sebastian said...

Yeah, Graeme spotted the passport as well. One wonders how they came up with that idea... & if anyone from the Learning Center is attending the AAPG conference. I understand it's a must for geologists.

Monday, September 12, 2005 10:41:00 PM  

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