Compare and Contrast

Opportunity

AAPG In-House Course

AAPG Public Course

1. Focus

Material is focused on the technology needs of the client company.

Material is generally focused to an industry audience so students appreciate the industry norm.

2. Use of proprietary data in classroom exercises

Client company can work with actual data in real-time environment, and ask relevant questions of the expert-instructor.

Class works with general examples from instructor’s background, showing a more diverse problem set.

3. Instructor as consultant

Instructor can comment on specific problems. Client benefits from instructor expertise as a bonus.

Other students may be able to comment from their experience. Other students may recommend other consultants.

4. Conserve travel time

Client negotiates time slot preferences, and may even schedule teaching over several half-day sessions which minimizes time away from the office.

If student can schedule the dates, he may be able to save money by attending a publicly scheduled course.

5. Conserve travel costs

By bringing the instructor to the students, the client company saves travel costs for all who attend the course.

Travel costs may not be a factor if the course is offered in the same city as the client offices.

6. Distractions

If the venue is in-house, there are not the distractions of attending a course attached to another conference, and the student can focus his energy on learning.

If the venue is a public course attached to a conference, the student does not have the distractions of family and office and can concentrate more thoroughly on the teaching.

7. Why attend this course?

Attending an in-house course means all members of the same asset team can attend together and work on similar problems together.

Attending a public course offers respite from office routine so that learning might occur in a more relaxed environment.