Question TEC REC Elearning
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I haven't seen it yet. I have only seen the announcement.
Is it a subscription payment model? No pay no see on expiry.
Can you highlight passages to aid learning and revision?
Can you browse, jump around and navigate easily?
Is it tied to modular tests: must pass to see next chapter?
Can you refer back to it in five years time, maybe when you're doing another course?
How much detail in it, or does the instructor have to add a lot more in the class presentation?
Books and printed manuals allow this. Same with PDFs
Can you highlight passages to aid learning and revision?
Can you browse, jump around and navigate easily?
Is it tied to modular tests: must pass to see next chapter?
Can you refer back to it in five years time, maybe when you're doing another course?
How much detail in it, or does the instructor have to add a lot more in the class presentation?
Books and printed manuals allow this. Same with PDFs
This is one thing that I'm going to be interested in seeing how they account for.... I'm a big fan of digital, but having a PDF where I can highlight on my iPad and navigate easily is a must these classes.
The fact that they are finally updating the material is welcomed though... I got a CD with my class pack for Tec40... I haven't owned something to read that in about 10 years.
Oh and pictures like this don't give an impression that the material is up to date:
I was loaned printouts from that manual to look at a while back. Gotta love a diver in drysuit and doubles, trying to do a valve drill while kneeling on the bottom of a swimming pool.
Hi,
What would be cool is a comprehensive part about gas planning full of details & examples in all situations : no deco, 1 deco, 2 decos, solo... And I do hope that they drop the run time and the method of thirds ! And switch instead to TTS planning.
PS : I am not a big fan of TDI method either for gas planning
What would be cool is a comprehensive part about gas planning full of details & examples in all situations : no deco, 1 deco, 2 decos, solo... And I do hope that they drop the run time and the method of thirds ! And switch instead to TTS planning.
PS : I am not a big fan of TDI method either for gas planning
Hi,
Yes, Elearning is a must for Tec courses because it needs regular updates that are easy to performed again and again on an online material, to follow the evolution of sciences.
At the moment in the section gas planning, PADI/DSAT paper manual does not give any example of deco software nor algorythm.
PS : TDI manual only gives example with VPM, yes VPM ...
That picture is from the old Tec Deep Manual...so you are correct, that material is outdated.
New eLearning has pictures of somebody using a MacBook, a tablet of some type, and a Shearwater to supplement the dive planning software section.
No specific software is mentioned. The simply state that software is available for desktop computers, laptops, tablets and phones. They also talk about planning on the dive computer itself. Shearwater has excellent image placement in this section.
They talk about both gas content and bubble models and gradient factors. The mention that there are many algorithms based on Buhlmann ZHL-16 and they mention VPM and RGBM for the bubble models.
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