SMART EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AS A FACTOR OF SMART SHIPPING DEVELOPMENT

Abstract Maritime universities face the need to rethink and restructure the learning experience to provide the level of education, corresponding to the challenges and opportunities of the Maritime industry. One of the ways of achieving the goal is wide implementation of smart educational technologies in educational process. Education is considered as the area in which information technology has brought much changes and an evident shifting from the traditional educational means to the ergatic educational environment by smart technologies use is capable to provide smart shipping industry with smart specialists to work in it. The offered paper deals with the aspects of intellectualization of Maritime education and shows the main issues associated with the implementation of virtual and argumented reality technologies in educational process and proposals on their efficient use. The correlation between the smart educational technologies and the professional environments in the maritime ergatic systems is considered. The conditions for the organization of immersive learning and criteria of its efficiency are defined and grounded. It is shown that the effect of immersiveness is achieved by repeated immersion under certain conditions that simulate real professional activity. It is determined that the issue of the smart education development is connected not only with the development of technologies, but also with the formation of the education quality, for which these technologies are invented, but still they serve as a means and not goals. This paper considers smart educational technologies at three levels, including: the process of education, its management, and the environment in which they are effected. It is emphasized that smart educational technologies are the significant factor of Smart shipping development. A learning system model, combining the advantages of the traditional learning system with the capabilities of the ergatic educational environment resources is offered. The paper proves that the concept of smart maritime education, involving flexibility, the use of a large number of sources, the diversity of used simulators, etc. is one of the promising tendencies both for Maritime education and further smart shipping development.