Geert - Consultant FLASH

2005 – 2006 Training and Courseware consultant, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines
Duties:
• Development of electronic training courses (e.g. ********/)
• Development of electronic reference manuals on Drying of Rice: ********.htm , Storage or Rice: ********.htm and Post harvest machine technology.
• Development of the new design the Rice Knowledge Bank site, which led to a more intuitive website that allows people to easier locate information, as well as keeping the site up-to-date. The Rice Knowledge Bank is an electronic and web-based repository of up-to-date information of rice-related training and extension for rice farmers, researchers and extension agents. (see ******** )
• Providing training support and providing training method consultation to IRRI’s staff.
• Capturing of scientific training materials in an appropriate educational form (e.g. training modules, reference manuals). Developed the Rice Production Course Manual.
• Development of agricultural extension and training materials, (e.g. manual with guidelines for the production of extension materials, see ********.htm).
• IRRI’s responsible to the CGIAR training community of practice in developing a common platform to generate and share training resources (CGIAR learning objects repository and learning management system).
• Co-author (with Mark Bell & David Shires) of presentation on “The Knowledge Bank: A work in progress Rice” given at the 2005 ACE meeting at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños (UPLB) on the 19th of October 2005.
• Organization of workshops e.g. IRRI Post production training e-course in Yangon, Myanmar (24-26 April, 2006) & Vientiane, Laos (10-12 May, 2006) (see article: ********-learning.asp).

1997 – 2001 Teacher and program leader, French International School Alexandre Yersin and United Nations International School, Hanoi, Vietnam
Project: Education of Dutch language and culture
Duties: Responsible for the development, implementation and execution of the “Dutch language and culture” project at two international schools in Hanoi, Vietnam. The tasks included project formulation, fund seeking, curriculum development, financial management, logistics (training materials, set up of a library), public relations and reporting (evaluation), as well as the actual teaching: kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and adult education at the Royal Dutch Embassy of Hanoi (1998 – 2001).

1996 –1997 & 2002 Primary school teacher, Belgium