Membership of the Global MET e-Learning Working Group is comprised of: 


  Pradeep Chawla - Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, Hong Kong, Chairman of GlobalMET

  Tim Wilson - New Zealand Maritime School, Auckland, Deputy Chairman of GlobalMET

  Richard Teo, Seafood and Maritime Industries Training, Darwin, Director of GlobalMET

  Swapan Das Sarma, Director, Teledata Marine Systems, Singapore, Advisor to GlobalMET 

  M A Ganesen, Chief Executive Officer, Malaysian Maritime Academy, Melaka, Advisor to GlobalMET 

  Kersi Deboo, General Manager & Principal, Anglo-Eastern Maritime Training Centre, Mumbai

  Matt Gilbert, Director, Lloyds Maritime Academy, London

  Malek Pourzanjani, President and Principal, Australian Maritime College.

Draft terms of reference are:
1 Express need for guidelines for development of delivery of e-learning for seafarers and others in the global shipping industry;
2 Formulate guidelines, possibly in collaboration with the aviation industry and the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC), and obtain GlobalMET Board agreement to the draft guidelines;
3 Formulate strategy for promulgation and acceptance of guidelines by industry;
4 Obtain industry agreement and support for guidelines,with eventual adoption.
While there is considerable development of e-learning material for seafarers, it appears that guidelines for delivery are needed, but before developing such guidelines, we need to be convinced of the need. Is there such a need? Is a needs survey necessary?

The aviation industry has had guidelines for a number of years. The AICC's objectives are to:

a) assist development of guidelines which promote the economic and effective implementation of computer-based training (CBT) media;
b) develop guidelines to enable interoperability;
c) provide an open forum for the discussion of CBT (and other) training technologies.

Participation in the AICC www.aicc.org enables learning of the best ways to develop and deploy CBT, keep abreast of recent developments in software technologies used for training and involvement in the development of CBT-related guidelines.