University of Cebu Contracts Kongsberg Digital for Students

Kongsberg Digital (KDI) has been awarded a significant contract to provide the University of Cebu, Philippines, with a K-Sim Engine cloud-based simulation solution for its marine engineering faculty. The scope of delivery comprises a total of 185 K-Sim Engine eLearning licenses, accompanied by instructor training capabilities. Certified according to DNV’s new class D standard and available via KDI’s digital platform, K-Sim Connect, the eLearning solution enables students at home to run online simulation exercises with the same engine models as the K-Sim Engine simulator systems already installed on the University’s METC and Lapu-Lapu Mandaue campuses.

The University’s adoption of a blended learning strategy, combining simulation training at campus with cloud-based simulation training at home, represents a considered and timely response to the ongoing Covid situation in the region. For reasons of legality and understandable caution, only a limited number of face-to-face training hours are allowed on the campuses. KDI’s cloud-based eLearning setup is therefore an indispensable, cost-effective solution for allowing the University to fulfil its blended learning ambitions. Meanwhile, the students will benefit by getting sophisticated online simulation training straight into their own homes. Crucially, it will enable students who were unable to complete their curriculum due to coronavirus to resume the exercises required to log their mandatory laboratory training hours.

Another advantage for the University is the flexibility to extend the number of licenses and/or the number of hours by which users can access the system. Moreover, it substantially increases the University’s capability to allow more students to access the simulators at a given time and benefit from volume training.