Online Training for Higher Education

The last years showed an increased interest on the concept of life long learning, especially in the European countries. Many activity fields, including maritime area involve this concept. A modern society must keep the level of knowledge of its citizens continuously updated to actual development, mainly in the fields of interest. This requirement can be accomplished by teaching and studying solutions that will use all available options including internet. The present paper is showing on already applied online teaching system used by our university, designed to offer easy access to information for teachers and students, but also available for former students, now officers onboard ships, in order to be able to update latest information’s about technical development in maritime field necessary in their duty activities. The online teaching techniques are used for the development of the concept “train the trainers” in our university for younger lecturers, to help them to integrate in the academic training system, through the project named “Seafarers’ environmental, social and cultural implications of sharing life on board ship within multinational crews – SeaCultLife”, dedicated to the development of the younger and experienced lecturers competencies related to the training domain requirement and also development and improvement of the skills in using of the newest teaching and training techniques.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.cmu-edu.eu/jmte/JMTE_vol_I_2013.pdf
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• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18446116
• Authors:
  • Liviu-Constantin, Stan
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 141-147
• Serial:
  • Journal of Marine Technology and Environment
  • Volume: 1
  • Publisher: Constanta Maritime University
  • ISSN: 1844-6116
  • Serial URL: http://www2.cmu-edu.eu/jmte

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electronic commerce; Internet; Learning; Maritime industry; Ship crews; Ships; Training programs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Seafaring life
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Education and Training; Marine Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01491914
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 3 2013 12:29PM