E-learning brings advantages compared with classroom instruction, but courses must be carefully designed.
By Rick Darby
Books
Performance-Based Learning
e-Learning in Aviation
Kearns, Suzanne K. Farnham, Surrey, England, and Burlington, Vermont, U.S.: Ashgate, 2010. 194 pp. Figures, tables, references, index.
Aviation training needs a new paradigm, Kearns says.
It is no longer enough, she believes, to “sort” learners — those who pass from those who fail, those who get better grades from those with worse grades, the sheep from the goats. That kind of instruction, she says, was “more focused on following procedures than on decision-making or problem-solving skills. However, the training needs of the industry have advanced. The increasing congestion of airspace, advanced technology in the cockpit and an influx of low-time pilots into th…
