1 Knowledge Sharing in Maritime Education and Training The Case of ECDIS Training Courses Ahmed Khalil Tawfik, Amr Moneer Ibrahim 1 Abstract This research aims to develop the role of knowledge sharing in the training provided by Maritime Transport Department of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. Using a comparative analysis between ECDIS generic and type-specific training, knowledge sharing antecedents; organization support, organization culture and time are tested and their impact on knowledge sharing is determined. A questionnaire is used to collect data regarding the sample studied and a number of 35 respondents from each course responded to the questionnaire. Results showed a shortage in the time provided to the ECDIS generic training course which shortens the chance for knowledge sharing, while the case was positive for the ECDIS type- specific training. Thus, practical implications include a need to amend the IMO circular “STCW.7/CIRC.24” in February 2017 that stated that seafarers are not required to provide documentation of training. Keywords: Maritime - Maritime Education and Training - ECDIS training - Knowledge Sharing - Knowledge Sharing Antecedents. 2 Introduction An important factor in the successful collaborative learning is the active and voluntarily sharing of information among students. Such knowledge exchanges help students answer questions, solve problems, learn new things, increase understanding regarding a particular subject, or merely acts as a means to help one another. These exchanges could be in the form of explicit knowledge, which can be captured and documented, and the tacit knowledge in the form of skills and competencies. Unlike information which is usually context-independent, tacit knowledge is personal and can only be shared through socialization, interaction, and training which often requires face-to-face communication, or in most cases, transferred through observation, imitation, practice, and interaction with the environment (McQueen and Janson, 2016). Knowledge sharing is defined as the act of knowledge provider making knowledge available to others within the organization. It was stated that knowledge sharing is not a two-way knowledge exchange between knowledge providers and knowledge recipients and knowledge sharing is limited only to the behavior of knowledge providers (Zhang and Jiang, 2015). One of the important courses in the maritime training domain is the ones conducted on Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS), as it is one of the recent tools for e-navigation and act as a replacement of conventional paper charts. ECDIS could be used as primary or aid to navigation, as demonstrated by IMO resolution MSC.252 (83) and SOLAS convention, chapter 5, regulation 19. An ECDIS allows the integration of other operational data, such as ship's course, speed, depth soundings, automatic identification systems (AIS) information, and RADAR/ARPA data into the display. Further, ECDIS allows automation of alarm systems to alert the navigator to potentially dangerous situations. Navigation with ECDIS can also provide enhanced situational awareness of important events.