Usage of Information and Communication Technologies in Maritime Educational Institutions

Abstract

Rampant development of information and communication technologies had considerable impact on all the spheres of human life and education in particular. Nowadays educational sector mainstream e-learning as it has numerous advantages. A number of issues including teachers' low awareness in the area of information and communication technologies hinder mass implementation of e-learning. In maritime educational institutions on the south of Ukraine vast majority of teachers use information and communication technologies in educational process yet they face difficulties and have a need to be trained on how to create distant courses and conduct teaching on-line. Raising awareness of teaching staff in these educational institutions in contemporary information and communication technologies and possibilities of their application in the educational process may be done via "training while working" or in postgraduate education while mastering special course "Moodle platform as one of the means of information and communication technologies for organizing electronic learning (eLearning) in maritime educational institutions". Implementation of the special course allows tackling the issue of educational process organization using distant platform Moodle, which in turn will have positive impact on students' learning efficiency.