Deep Diver manual or elearning?

[BoltSnap]

I ended up buying the e-learning, it was quiet disappointing, they did not incorporate any of the videos like the crew pack dvd has. Even the drysuit e-learning had a bunch of older videos in it. It was pretty repetitive from the AOW diver and rescue diver content. There was one of two things I did learn from it...at this point i cant recall what they were lol!

All of my local dive shops have discontinued selling padi books and they have to special order them. I dont know if the markup for e-learning is more and thats why they are pushing it. One guy at the dive shop said the paper manual was not valid and I had to buy the elearning. When I told him my instructor said either the elearning or book knowledge review was acceptable he started to back peddle

That's too bad. With NAUI you get a PDF version of the textbook with eLearning and the eLearning includes all of the videos NAUI produces for the course. There is also a package you can buy that includes the eLearning with PDF textbook AND a paper version of the textbook. The eLearning is very good and thorough indeed. I still teach the full in class lectures adding material as appropriate.

 

[Wibble]

That's too bad. With NAUI you get a PDF version of the textbook with eLearning and the eLearning includes all of the videos NAUI produces for the course. There is also a package you can buy that includes the eLearning with PDF textbook AND a paper version of the textbook. The eLearning is very good and thorough indeed. I still teach the full in class lectures adding material as appropriate.

How do NAUI prices compare? A book vs eLernin

 

[BoltSnap]

NAUI prices are generally substantially less than all other agencies' prices. I don't know now the price of the book vs. eLearning since I haven't ordered paper books for a very long time. The cost for shipping actual paper books is huge for me in Libya. I don't remember the exact numbers, the costs for me to buy eLearning (with PDF textbook) and e-Cert card for my students is much less than other agencies' prices. I can add a plastic c-card to the package and it still much less expensive. I compared the prices with other agencies I am an instructor with and NAUI came out to be the best value by a wide margin.