1. Shell Open University Blended Learning for Gas Lift Training
Burney Waring
Shell International
Shell Learning, The Netherlands
5 February 2002

2. Training Revisited
What’s the same for every classroom course you ever attended?

3. Training Revisited
What’s the same for every classroom course you ever attended?
It was in a classroom.

4. Training Revisited
What if it didn’t have to be?

5. Training Revisited What if we could learn? when we need it
where we are
just what we need to know

6. Training Revisited
Suppose the instructor never again had to give a lecture and never had to travel?

7. Training Revisited
Suppose the instructor never again had to give a lecture and never had to travel?
But instead spent time helping students.

8. Training Revisited
Suppose that experts from around the globe could participate.

9. Training Revisited
Suppose that experts from around the globe could participate.
At minimum cost.
At their convenience.

10. Training Revisited
Suppose that all of this cost less than doing it in a classroom.

11. Training Revisited
Suppose that all of this cost less than doing it in a classroom.
And embedded learning at a much deeper level.
And linked the learning directly to the business.

12. Training Revisited
Then you would have a new way to teach that would benefit everyone.

13. Blended Learning
“Blended Learning” is defined as a blend of learning techniques and modes, normally using technology to improve learning.

14. The New Gas Lift Course The new Gas Lift course is a blend of:
self-study and tutoring
formal and informal learning
course work with business work
This course replaces a 5 day classroom course with a hour course taken over 10 weeks.

15. The New Gas Lift Course The course consists of: Lectures Course manual
Self-assessment Quizzes
Assignments (including software tutorials, open questions related to the business, field trips, etc.)
Delivered and run via the web and Shell’s standard knowledge base/discussion group software.

16. If you have more questions, contact:
Burney Waring