“100% of employees and elected representatives trained in CSR issues”. This is one of the major commitments of the Crédit Agricole Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility Project, which aims to support the major changes in our society. As the Group’s University, our role is to support these transformations. This is why we have set up a […]

Since 2019, we have shared with you the training trends that we believe in. We follow 7 of them that we re-question every year. After learningsocial which was a big hit last year, and which has not lost its lustre, we choose to focus on lifelong learning as the top trend for 2022/23.   Lifelong […]

Role-playing Games are by no means new. They proved their usefulness in the context of training and development. They offer endless possibilities whilst distinguishing themselves from their cousins – serious games, case studies and simulations – as they immerse the learner in a tale of which they are both authors and actors. Let us zoom […]

Today, emotion is no longer a taboo subject, it is even at the heart of famous soft skills. But what is an emotion? How did the concept of emotional intelligence develop? What is its impact in training? Answers from Camille Besson, Educational Designer & Dorothée Cavignaux-Bros, Training Engineer & Doctor in Science of Education.   […]

Last Thursday, March 24th, I had the pleasure of attending the conference “The pleasure of learning in adult education” organised by the FFFOD and hosted by Dorothée Cavignaux-Bros, Training Engineer at IFCAM & PhD in Education & Training Science, and Jean Vanderspelden, administrator at the FFFOD & consultant at ITG Paris. A moment of reflection […]

The theme of the 2022 Learning Festival is “thinking outside of the box for the pleasure of learning”. This is a subject that particularly inspires us at IFCAM and one that we have chosen to address through the places where we learn. Is the training room the only place to learn? Does getting out of […]

Some consider that learning requires prior intention, while others consider that intention is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for learning. Intention, in the context of learning, can cover two aspects. Intention for oneself, when the subject sets out to acquire competencies, and intention for others, when the demand for development comes from a […]

Monday, October 18, 2021, 9:30 a.m., Salle Grainetier, Silvae, Montrouge. Two learners start a course. They know each other well and one says to the other: “I’m not worried about you, you’ll manage to understand and learn everything, you’re lucky, you’re intelligent and you’ve always had a gift for learning”. This fixated notion of intelligence […]

It is undeniable that the podcast is gaining in popularity. Everyday, 87% of French people listen to news in audio format(1). But can we learn from podcasts? Can we learn by walking down the street, without taking notes? In a world where productivity has become the watchword, podcasts are popular, particularly because they can be […]

Have you ever been so absorbed in an activity that you felt as if time had stopped? Have you ever been so focused that you forgot all your problems? Have you ever felt that everything was easy, that everything was under control? Have you ever been in such a state of completeness that you merged […]

In education, agency is the power of a learner to act on his or her learning and to be an actor. At IFCAM, we are convinced that a learner who constructs his or her own knowledge and therefore mental representations benefits from deeper learning, better memorization of information, strong commitment and more solid connections between […]