Construction of e-Learning in Maritime Education

Abstract

A word "e-Learning" is used symbolically. This word means a form of studying by using the computer and the Internet. The Japanese government declared the 'e-Japan' strategy, which aimed to make Japan the world's most advanced IT nation. This strategy has succeeded and greatly changed our life. The Japanese Government tries to introduce the information technology into education actively. However, e-Learning such as WBT (Web Based Training) with deliveries of the teaching materials and examination through the Internet has been hardly carried out at all in maritime education. So, by this report, we built e-Learning which learned Law for Preventing Collisions at Sea and conducted evaluation experiments. The examination was conducted in two steps. First, we tested to learners before and after study by e-Learning and applied statistical analysis to experimenntal data. We compared e-Learning with the conventional study forms. We made students learn through each method as well as e-Learning, face-to-face lesson, and self-education. We obtained the finding that e-Learning made equivalent effective achievement in comparison with other method of learning through statistical analysis. This finding suggests possibility of e-Learning as an alternative method in maritime education.