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Training Tips for Ships

Tip #12

Training in COVID-19 Times:

A “How to Guide”

OVID-19 is requiring all operators to recon- If you have an LMS already available, great. If not, you will sider how they train. In-person traditional have to select one. While in normal times there would be many training is essentially prohibited by this pan- criteria to consider in this choice, I’ll identify only two core demic. So how do operators adapt quickly to requirements here that must be considered. First, ensure that

C maintain compliance and train for safe opera- your LMS allows you to easily deliver your own custom train- tions, yet do so in a COVID-safe way? For- ing content and assessments. For example, can you record a tunately, it can be done, and it is not diffcult. short video and quickly make it available to all your learners

Furthermore, by taking the steps necessary to deliver train- along with a quiz to test their knowledge? This is important ing during the pandemic, you will be putting in place systems, as some LMSs make it diffcult or impossible to deploy your tools and content to improve both the outcomes and cost-eff- own content, instead allowing only the LMS vendor’s content ciency of your future training, pandemic or not. and assessments. Second, it is important to decide whether you

YOUR PROPULSION EXPERTS

In order to respond to the immediate need, we will focus here would like your crew to train while on-board. If the answer is on the basics: getting effective training out to those who need yes, it will be important to choose an LMS which works on- it quickly, effciently and safely. The time will come later for board without connectivity. If the answer is no, then a larger more extensive planning, refnement and measurement. For variety of LMSs will do the job.

now – it is all about providing the needed training remotely, Second, for real-time interactions between your instructors and making it available quickly. and learners, a conferencing tool is required. In this case there

Can We Train Remotely? Yes, remote learning has been hap- are many to choose from. Three popular choices are Google pening for decades and there is a tremendous body of evidence Hangouts, Zoom, and Skype. All of these are inexpensive (and to show that it is at least as effective, and often more effec- allow for a certain amount of free use), are easy to use, are tive than in-person classroom-based training. This applies to reliable, and support video, audio, screen-sharing and chat all forms of knowledge training – including basic knowledge functionality. Our customers have made extensive use of all of (such as learning routines, deck layouts, company policies, these without issue. Pick one.

sanitation basics, etc.) as well as foundational skill knowl- Learning Principles: As above, given the luxury of time, edge (such as such as where to aim a fre extinguisher, how to we would look closely at needs and then design a program sanitize a surface, and the correct sequence for donning PPE). carefully tailored to address those needs. While that would be

Thus, we can remotely deliver a broad range of knowledge ideal, we can still achieve an excellent result by following a training; even venturing into many areas we would normally few basic principles.

think of as skills. First, can the lecture. Both for effciency and for improved

The Required Tools: At this moment, the goal is to deploy outcomes, avoid the temptation to simply move the classroom- effective training quickly. The tools we require are a learn- based model onto a video-chat. Instead, record the lecture you ing management system (LMS) to deliver on-line training and would have given into a series of short videos, and make those

DEMAND YOUR VESSELS’ FULL POTENTIAL assessment, and a conferencing tool to allow for real-time in- available via the LMS. Then, once your learners have watched teractions. the recorded lecture videos, use the live conferencing tool to

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