Considerations about Effectiveness and Limits of Computer Based Training in Maritime Industry

摘要

Maritime Education was for many years very traditional with part of the training time spent in the schools and part of it spent at sea on the job. In the last ten years a lot of computer applications have appeared on the market with the intention of replacing or at least reducing the time spent at sea. The purpose of this paper is evaluate the positive and negative impact of CBT on Maritime Education and Training (MET).