Teaching crew efficiently through online courses

摘要

Shipmanagers and operators can provide online training for crew using the ship's VSAT system. This saves them time and money when compared with sending seafarers to shore-based academies for training. Improved broadband connectivity on vessels has led to the adoption of e-learning across fleets of ships. Online training courses contain a mixture of text, graphics and, in some cases, video and direct links to lecturers or subject expertise. Malaysian tanker operator MISC Berhad has adopted e-learning as a method of teaching new recruits about chemical carrier operations. Its training subsidiary, Akademi Laut Malaysia (Alam), worked with maritime interactive technology provider Idess Interactive Technologies and classification society ABS to create the Chem-eL e-learning package. This is used to teach recruits, in their own time, from various Internet-linked locations.