Basic Naval Knowledge and Seamanship e-Learning Web Portal for Sri Lanka Navy

Abstract

Basic Navel Knowledge and Seamanship web portal is for Sri Lanka navy in order to provide a solution for under trainees of the Sri Lanka navy and it may expand to all other naval persons, and also beneficial for the who are in the field of maritime domain. Currently the Sri Lnaka Navy training or education mainly focused on paper based learning and teaching system. Due to the advancement of technology and low price of the digital computing equipment, many young individuals use the mobile devices and laptops more than books. And it is a good thing if we can reduce the printed materials and encourage the e-learning methods. And it will save time of naval persons who having very hard time during training. By introducing a web portal trainees get more advantages in reviewing and understanding subjects. This web portal is focused on catering the trainees of Sri Lanka Navy with Naval Knowledge and Seamanship subject area with the use of multimedia tools (video, audio and images). It will help the trainees to gain their knowledge in 24x7 and also help other relevant persons to update the knowledge on subject area. The web portal is developed using a content management system based on apache web server as the server environment, PHP as the development language and My SQL as the database management system because they are the most trusted stable solutions to provide a low cost efficient solution. And other multimedia equipment and Software are used for create relevant contents. Basic naval knowledge and seamanship helps the trainees to use the technology in a useful manner and help Sri Lanka Navy to improve the standard of training.