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Murray Goldberg, CEO, Marine Learning Systems oices “

What happened to BC Ferries was that over this 10 year period they found that their accidents dropped 60 to 70%, their insurance claims costs dropped from about $4 million dollars a year to under $1 million dollars a year, and overall it was a much

Interestingly on-time performance went up, too. safer operation. have an of? ce in Europe, as well, but online learning and online assessment. systems – no enterprise software – that

So how did you ? nd your way into the most of us are in Vancouver, and that’s That sucked me out of the university could support the operational and train- maritime industry?

where I was a computer science profes- because, not just based on our research, I sold that company and got in- ing context in the maritime industry. So sor. My research area was actually online but really based on what was going on volved in the maritime industry in 2006. I built them something speci? c for them learning, web-based learning, blended in the world in regards to e-learning. I BC Ferries had an incident that year that in 2007. They’ve been using it since and learning, looking at outcomes: looking took the software that we built for our caused them to look at all of their opera- now they are 10 years down the road and at student retention, student experience, research and started a company around it tions, especially with respect to training. they have fantastic results. knowledge gained in the various modes called “Web CT” to provide the e-learn- They wanted to be a world-class training Word spread, and about ? ve years ago I of learning effectively. And this was be- ing infrastructure commonly known as organization. So they had me in as a con- started getting requests from other ves- fore there really was much in the way of a Learning Management System, or an sultant to help formulate a pilot. The pi- sel operators to provide the same kind blended learning. That research that we LMS. I started that company in 1997 and lot went well, and so they said, “We want of infrastructure and the same kind of were doing ended up resulting – because it grew in just a few years to about 4,000 to deploy this across our whole organiza- software and the same kind of services. we’re computer scientists, of course – in universities in 80 countries using the tion.” Well, what we quickly found was That’s when Marine Learning Systems the creation of some software to support software; overall about 14 million users. that there were no learning management was born.

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