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Examples of educational packages

Below find examples of how the Toolbox Design Guide has been used.

Digital Skills 1: The Digital Seafarer [link]

The course aims to provide maritime professionals with the knowledge and skills required to use information
infrastructure onboard modern ships to enable them to assess, analyse and act upon available data.

The educational package Digital Skills 1 goes beyond generic digital skills training courses and was
developed to enable students to familiarise themselves with ship-specific information infrastructure and to
complete the course whilst at sea. This requires the course to balance semi-autonomous learning with a
supportive virtual environment that incorporates teaching, learning and assessment.

The assessments used in this package include an initial diagnostic quiz, regular formative tests and a final
quiz used as a summative assessment. The guidance in the educational package toolbox indicates that all
formative assessments are to be completed within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

VLE is further explained in the Toolbox Design Guide appendix 3 [link].

Digital Skills 2: Maritime Cybersecurity [link]

The intended learning objective of Digital Skills 2 is to provide maritime professionals with the knowledge
and skills required to minimise ships’ vulnerability, prevent main cyber risks, and respond effectively to
cyber incidents and attacks.

The course is designed to be delivered using blended learning with classroom lessons supplemented by
asynchronous e-learning modules. Simulation and practical activities such as demonstrations of cyber-
attack support the training. Formative assessments are included in the form of short self-checking or
multiple-choice tests. A practical exercise, a case study or simulation is suggested for the final assessment.

Green Skills 1: Environmentally friendly and sustainable ship operation [link]

On completion of Green Skills 1, the students shall attain the knowledge, skills, and competencies required
for operating a vessel in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.

The package aims to further the participants’ environmental awareness. To achieve this, Socratic
questioning is used to help the participants develop higher order thinking skills and to reflect on their choices
and their consequences [link].

The Green Skills 1 assessment case scenario is based on simulated ship operation.

The use of simulators as one of the teaching methods offers the possibility of repeating exercises under
different conditions and for reflections in action as well as reflections on action during the debriefing
sessions.

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