Kineo and RYA develop e-learning programme on navigation and water safety

e-Learning provider Kineo and the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) have worked together to create a suite of bespoke e-learning modules on navigation and water safety.
The RYA is the national body for all forms of boating, providing information and advice, as well as courses and training. Their courses are currently conducted face-to-face and usually over a number of days. However, the need to deliver them internationally, while ensuring consistency across how the courses are rolled out, meant that they had to consider a different learning approach.
RYA chose Kineo to create an e-learning programme that had to appeal to a broad range of people, doing a wide range of water-based activities, from jet skiing to yachting.
Kineo's solution included phased sections designed to build the learner's knowledge in short focused sections and to give them an opportunity to apply it in a safe environment with feedback, and then a final test to prove their capabilities.
Kineo used a rich media approach, complete with animations, videos and voiceover to explain concepts such as tidal systems to the learner.
Jane Hall, e-learning and training resources manager at the Royal Yachting Association said: "This was not an easy project, but Kineo's expertise in learning and graphic design, teamed with our instructors' knowledge of the subject meant that we have ended up with a course to be proud of. The hard work was worth it and the feedback from students and instructors so far has been great."

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To view a case study about the Royal Yachting Association project, visit: www.kineo.com/case-studies/rya-elearning-case-study.html
Royal Yachting Association