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MIA offers online education<br />
courses during pandemic<br />
The <strong>Marina</strong> Industries Association (MIA) has ramped up its online<br />
learning for the marina industries amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The<br />
MIA’s online offering has increased from two to six types of online<br />
programmes and the association expects to deliver a minimum of 17<br />
online educational activities.<br />
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MIA president Andrew Chapman<br />
said momentum for online learning was<br />
already growing before the COVID-19<br />
crisis. “Twelve months ago we launched<br />
the Club <strong>Marina</strong> Extreme Weather<br />
Preparedness course online. While<br />
initial take-up was slow, there has been<br />
a 60% increase in course enrolments<br />
from nine countries this year.”<br />
In July, the MIA will conduct<br />
its first ever online Intermediate<br />
<strong>Marina</strong> Management (IMM) course.<br />
Traditionally face-to-face and conducted<br />
over 4.5 days, the online IMM will take<br />
place over a period of four weeks.<br />
MIA’s industry education officer,<br />
Vijaya Selvaraj, said studying online<br />
has practical advantages not<br />
just during COVID-19. “Shorter,<br />
more intensive and self-directed online<br />
learning gives our members greater<br />
flexibility to choose when, where<br />
and how they study. Members can<br />
participate from anywhere in the world<br />
and experts can be brought in via<br />
recorded interviews or live webinars.”<br />
“MIA’s Extreme Weather Course is<br />
self-paced and the materials can be<br />
accessed 24 hours a day, seven days<br />
a week – and participants are given<br />
30 days to complete the course,” she<br />
added. “We are also rolling out a course<br />
focused on marina boat fire prevention,<br />
which will be a blended online course.”<br />
MIA CEO, Colin Bransgrove, said:<br />
“Face to face learning will always be a<br />
core part of MIA’s education offering<br />
in normal times. The use of online<br />
learning, however, is suited to the MIA<br />
membership that is scattered across<br />
many countries from the Middle East to<br />
New Zealand. With 300 plus members<br />
across such a vast area of the globe, it<br />
is inevitable online learning will become<br />
an increasingly important component of<br />
MIA activity to support the sustainable<br />
growth of the marina industries.”<br />
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