ANSWERS TO TRAINING IN INDUSTRIES OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY THROUGH DISTANCE AND OPEN LEARNING

Abstract

The increasing development of distance and open education in the last two decades rnade them to become an important part of most educational systems. Although initially concentrated at (he post secondary leve!, open and distance education projects now exist at the technical and vocational leveis, in (he form of job training, in the private as in the public sector. lncreasing!y, working people chan ge from manual to intellectual work which implies substantial changes in iheir labor califications, as in the working organiza non, specially in ihe last one, in order lo keep the working system in functional conditions. This makes necessay lo restate ¡he training process, lo adjust it lo (he new iechnological tendencies of industries. The essay cha racterizes the possibilities that offer distance and open education as an answer for training, an llustrates it through the Venezuelan national oil industry.