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TRAINING to complete mandated training. ways to improve, Camarena said. The com- with seafarers to learn what appears to

Camarena said it is often a challenge pany monitors its training efforts against a be working or not and/or what should for seafarers to ?nd time to train while number of factors including incidents, pro- be done differently. “This also means on the job, so American Seafoods pays its ductivity, claims, on board self-assessments, getting on board to see the real life of seagoing employees to complete mandat- audit results and vessel visits, and then acts our maritime employees and actually ed e-Learning training while they are at on the results as quickly as possible. sailing with the vessels and really getting home. “This solution is a relatively sim- Camarena said it is important to speak to see their reality when possible.” ple one but clearly effective and not all that costly,” Camarena said. “And since

ASKA also works on board no matter the location of a vessel, we have the ability to invite our employees to complete any un- ?nished training while onboard and are working to establish the proper process whereby ‘ASKA training’ can integrate into onboard promotions and other po- tential training opportunities.” “In moving to this new LMS solution we also freed ourselves from having to rely on a limited number of content providers, and are now working through our con- tent with the aim to choose best in class.

While it is easy to simply license a whole host of content from a single provider or two, you tend to get the exact same look, feel and design in every course. But with the option to choose vendors entirely on the basis of content, we expect to signi?- cantly raise the quality and engagement factors in all our online learning.” “I believe another huge challenge to our efforts is how to make and keep training engaging,” Camarena said, adding that innovative, entertaining and creative content like is seen in the gam- ing world goes a long way to improve training quality and we’re waiting for it to hit the training world soon.

“I recently heard a speaker at a training conference say, ‘We need to create the con- ditions for binge learning,’” he said. “If we start with the goal of ‘effective training’ it automatically implies that an online learn- ing course would have all the elements that learners are seeking while actually learning versus clicking through screens and most commonly, multi-tasking their way through a course to the ?nish screen.”

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