Tag: Maritime Training

Tag: Maritime Training

Improving Maritime Safety on a Budget

Sep 24, 2015 Murray Goldberg 0 Blog , The following post was originally written by Murray Goldberg for Maritime Professional as a part of a series of articles called The Human Element on a Budget. To celebrate World Maritime Day's theme of education and training, we are re-posting the article here to help give vessel operators more ideas on how to improve their training. [...] READ MORE

Face-to-Face vs eLearning in Maritime Training

Aug 26, 2015 Murray Goldberg 1 Blog , Photo above taken by Lauren Harnett / CC BY 2.0 The Most Unfortunate Phrase in Maritime Training: “There is No Replacement for Face to Face Training” Have you ever been involved in a discussion about maritime training and heard someone say “there is no replacement for face to face training”? Having had [...] READ MORE

Are You an Industry Leader in Maritime Training?

Aug 10, 2015 Marine Learning Systems 3 Blog , Photo above taken by Liz Novak / CC BY 4.0 Although there has been no shortage in maritime technology improvements over the years, marine incidents continue to occur with predictable frequency. Human error remains at the core of many accidents, with poorly managed, ineffective maritime training and a lack of safety [...] READ MORE

Why is Maritime Training 15 Years Behind?

Jul 20, 2015 Murray Goldberg 2 Blog , I have been involved in eLearning research and development since the mid 1990’s. It was an amazing time. The world was discovering that eLearning could improve educational access, efficiency, and most importantly educational effectiveness (yes – people actually learned better!). This was remarkable because it seemed that education really hadn’t [...] READ MORE

Self-study in Marine Training: Can it be Effective?

Jul 6, 2015 Murray Goldberg 0 Blog , In past articles I have blogged about the value of self-study as a powerful component of a job and familiarization training program. As a reminder, self-study, for our purposes, means using learning materials created by the training organization (your company in this case) to learn some aspect of a job [...] READ MORE

Self Study as a Part of Familiarization Training

Jun 22, 2015 Murray Goldberg 0 Blog , Every company in the world is (or at least had better be) continuously on the lookout for ways to improve the outcomes or products they generate while maintaining or reducing costs. BC ferries has implemented a change to the way it performs onboard and on-site familiarization which does both. One [...] READ MORE
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