Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic created significant challenges for higher education, with universities being shut down and face-to-face teaching and assessment shifting to an online format. This presented an opportunity to focus on the continuity of learning through distance education, especially in the maritime context, due to the on-board training requirements, and even though five years have passed, this shift has reshaped the education landscape, proving that remote learning has come to stay.
At the Barcelona School of Nautical Studies, we have developed a weather routing software in the framework of distance education and teaching innovation. We conducted a teaching trial alternatively at sea (distance education) and onshore (face-to-face education), and results have been compared in terms of competence acquisition in the maritime education and training framework. The focus of this paper is twofold, as it is not only to validate a novel teaching tool for assessing maritime competences but also to ascertain whether there are any significant divergences in competence acquisition regardless of the educational environment
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Borén, Clara; Castells-Sanabra, Marcella; and Grifoll, Manel
(2026)
"Face-to-Face Versus Distance Education in Competence-Based Maritime Education and Training,"
Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan: Vol. 34:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
DOI: 10.51400/2709-6998.2824
Available at:
https://jmstt.ntou.edu.tw/journal/vol34/iss2/8
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