| Monday 1st October: The National Maritime College of Ireland recently sent 4 people to the Centre d’instruction naval (Naval Training Centre) in Toulon to exchange ideas and approaches to e-Learning in maritime training and education. This exchange was enabled by the Maritime Learning Network 'MarLeaNet', an EU project – a network of maritime training centres in Portugal, Spain, France and Ireland. The Naval Training Centre San Mandrier supports sailors throughout their careers in an impressive facility that extends over 110 hectares and two sites: Saint-Georges in the north, home to generations of engineers since 1936, and Cépet in the south, which forms the marine specialties in weapons and equipment (radar, electronic warfare, sonar, communications and information) and operations. The NTC delivers some impressive statistics with more than 400 courses, 8,000 students and trainees, 300,000 training days delivering everything from apprentice training to MA degrees. The National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI), located in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, in the second largest natural harbour in the world. A constituent college of Cork Institute of Technology, the NMCI is a state of the art facility that provides training and education for the Merchant Marine and the Irish Naval Service, which includes survival training facilities, fire fighting / damage control training, confined space training, jetty and lifeboat facilities. The one-day-meeting in France hosted experts from the Irish, Spanish and Portuguese navies and facilitated an excellent exchange of practices relating e-Learning methodologies. Anthony Heery, Michael Quinn and Rory Galvin from the Irish Naval Service and Gráinne Lynch from the National Maritime College of Ireland travelled to France. “The NMCI provides training to the seafarers, both the merchant marine and the Irish Naval Service. Learning from other training centres and navies through projects like ‘MarLeaNet’ is incredibly important for developing best practices in maritime training and education here in Ireland”, says Grainne Lynch, Project Manager of the MarLeaNet project in the NMCI. “Access to continued training throughout a seafarer’s career is essential and distance learning has always played a role. e-Learning is becoming increasingly popular as telecommunications technologies and broadband services on board ships become increasingly accessible,” adds Lynch. For more information on the MarLeaNet project please visit www.marleanet.com. Do come to the National Maritime College of Ireland Open Day on Tuesday 23 October 2012, 10.00am - 3.00pm. For Group Bookings contact +353 21 4970607. www.nmci.ie Related links for this article MarLeaNet website NMCI website |
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