Abstract
The purpose of this article is threefold. Firstly, it considers the real needs which led to the idea of conceiving and developing new study program supported by web-based e-learning system (WELS) at the Faculty of Maritime Studies (University of Montenegro) as maritime higher education and training institution. In this part of the article the collaborative projects which enhanced this idea and its implementation are described briefly, as well. Secondly, the results of the polls realized among certain number of involved students, teachers, and experts in related activities, are presented and discussed in order to identify main features along with pros and cons of the WELS being here examined. And, thirdly, some empirically based suggestions when it comes to choose the appropriate software tools for creating more interesting, engaging, inciting, and thus of higher quality instructional materials being available through WELS, are given.
Highlights
Nowadays, numerous recognized and respectful maritime educational and/or training institutions and companies offer e-learning courses, like: Lloyd’s Maritime Academy, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, MPI Group, USCG Maritime Institute, etc
How can the results obtained (Figure 1) be interpreted? - Most of the surveyed students are still not convinced that the possibilities of self-controlling learning process, learning community activities, and more effective learning are the advantages of the web-based e-learning system (WELS) (A5 and A6 are lower than 50%)
(Analytical Hierarchy Process) method and the author’s previous research papers (Bauk et al, 2013a; Bauk et al, 2012). This approach enabled us to rank some WELS features, which have been in the context of this study identified as important ones (Table 2)
Summary
Numerous recognized and respectful maritime educational and/or training institutions and companies offer e-learning courses, like: Lloyd’s Maritime Academy, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, MPI Group, USCG Maritime Institute, etc. What supports using WELS at maritime higher educational institutions is the document “The Manila Amendments to the Standards of Training, Certification and Watch-keeping for Seafarers Convention and Code” (Philippines, 21-25 June 2010), which concerns, among other numerous issues: . This strongly supports the efforts of conceiving, implementing and developing WELS at maritime higher educational and/or training institutions
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