OceanTeacher and Training Activities: presented at the Twenty-first Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XXI), Liège, Belgium, 23-26 March 2011.

Abstract

OceanTeacher is the cornerstone of the IODE capacity building programme and supports all IODE training activities by providing training tools for data and information management. Trainiing is complemented and supported by the OceanTeacher training system. The OceanTeacher Academy (OTA), which offers a teaching programme of courses related to oceanographic data and information management and the development of related products and services, commenced its first academic year in 2009-2010.