More (e)wit for logistics education on inland waterway transport
Training efficiency highly depends on the effectiveness of the approaches to teaching
and learning. Using information and communication technology tools for learning
purposes, eLearning supports traditional
didactic methods. eLearning involves a greater variety of devices
like internet, intranets, computer-based technologies or interactive applications.
eLearning can be customised to the needs of the individual and has the flexibility
to allow studying at a place, time and location that best suit the learners. It
gives the potential to provide widespread and easy access to high quality, relevant
training and education.
In order to improve the use of multimedia technologies for the education on
Inland Waterway Transport (IWT), a new
web-based approach has been implemented for the logistics training
in course of the eWIT Project. Web-based applications provide European trainers
and learners an up-to-date training on Intermodal Inland Waterway Transport. This
innovative training method modernises the current
training methods in the inland navigation-sector, where IWT-information
mostly was reduced to a few outdated technical and nautical issues. The information
displayed to the user consists of text, graphs, multimedia material and interactive
elements.