2.00pm Wednesday (3)

Fishing Industry New Practices Project

wanted to test the ideas in the fishing industry as that was seen to be a hard place to make something like this work.
context was narrowband, infrequent internet access.
Industry was being pushed to develop their own compliance regulations, and also starting to export so needed to comply with European union Regulations.
Used Janison software called satellite.
As well as initial training, workers also require re-training when AQIS inspections are failed.
LMS is loaded onto a laptop and course materials provided by cd-rom. no download speed concerns in this set up so are able to make use of large file sizes etc - make the resources as good as possible rather than being constrained by bandwidth issues.
There is a web server installed on the laptop. Students can therefore participate in discussions and use of Learning Objects, on a regular basis student then dials up through a satellite phone services which synchronises with the teacher. These short bursts of connectivity mean that students still can have interaction with the teachers out at sea.
This is a good pattern as much recruitment for the fleets happens at the wharf - there is not necessarily time for people to take training before they go to sea.
Not sure if there was any student-student interaction built into the model, it was not mentioned so this is unlikely.
This technical solution can work for other industries and contexts - eg training of government officials in remote areas