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An engaging approach to familiarise students with offshore wind training
10/12/2025
8 min read
Feature
New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple MEI speaks to the founders of Offshore Wind Learning, Alastair Dutton and Chris Lloyd, about how they began, and the value of their award-winning e-learning programme for new entrants to the offshore wind sector and a wider professional audience globally.
It's been a busy few months for the team at Offshore Wind Learning, the e-learning package that introduces many aspects of the offshore wind industry to new players.
The £100 course, which is supported by the Energy Institute, consists of 30 lessons, each about one-hour long. Students are self-paced. Assisting the micro-learning approach are interactive features including flashcards, card sorting, matching descriptions, photos, videos, pop-up label graphics and interactive 3D models. A quiz sits at the end of each module, from which successful students earn a digital badge. A 30-question end-of-course exam provides learners a course completion certificate.
Not only has the team completed the second annual update of materials to reflect current market conditions and emerging trends in technology and design – including a reorganised fundamentals module and a new lesson on health and safety management, following consecutive years of reported fatalities. But in October, the course was 'highly commended' at the Renewable UK Global Offshore Wind 2025 awards, within the Skills and People Award. Not bad for a scheme that is only 18 months old.