TY - GEN
T1 - Maintenance management e-training
T2 - What we learn from the users
AU - Emmanouilidis, C.
AU - Papathanassiou, N.
AU - Pistofidis, P.
AU - Labib, A.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The Maintenance Management profession requires a truly multidisciplinary set of skills. Higher education courses do not offer the necessary body of knowledge in a single course. Maintenance engineering training is offered by some postgraduate & vocational training courses. These often target specialized aspects of Maintenance skills. An important hurdle is that target groups are in most cases professionals who have already entered their working life. Due to their professional engagements, such user groups are under significant time and location constraints, often preventing them from attending a professional training course. E-Training is a viable, flexible and cost-efficient alternative for delivering Maintenance Management training. We report on the development of such an e-learning system, namely iLearn2Main. The main design considerations are briefly discussed, as well as its structure and key features, including a tool for automated competence assessment. A key focus in this work is to present results from pilot testing the system with different user groups. Some of the key findings of the user survey are outlined. It has been particularly encouraging to find evidence of practically uniform acceptance of e-learning technologies as a means of delivering maintenance management training. Among the survey findings are useful directions for further system enhancement and enrichment.
AB - The Maintenance Management profession requires a truly multidisciplinary set of skills. Higher education courses do not offer the necessary body of knowledge in a single course. Maintenance engineering training is offered by some postgraduate & vocational training courses. These often target specialized aspects of Maintenance skills. An important hurdle is that target groups are in most cases professionals who have already entered their working life. Due to their professional engagements, such user groups are under significant time and location constraints, often preventing them from attending a professional training course. E-Training is a viable, flexible and cost-efficient alternative for delivering Maintenance Management training. We report on the development of such an e-learning system, namely iLearn2Main. The main design considerations are briefly discussed, as well as its structure and key features, including a tool for automated competence assessment. A key focus in this work is to present results from pilot testing the system with different user groups. Some of the key findings of the user survey are outlined. It has been particularly encouraging to find evidence of practically uniform acceptance of e-learning technologies as a means of delivering maintenance management training. Among the survey findings are useful directions for further system enhancement and enrichment.
KW - E-learning
KW - Educational technology
KW - Engineering education
KW - Learning management systems
KW - Maintenance engineering
KW - Maintenance Management
KW - Maintenance training
KW - Self-assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051997611&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3182/20100701-2-pt-4012.00008
DO - 10.3182/20100701-2-pt-4012.00008
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80051997611
SN - 9783902661784
T3 - IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
SP - 36
EP - 41
BT - 1st IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology, A-MEST'10 - Proceedings
PB - IFAC Secretariat
ER -