Vacancies: OATmedia need Subject Specialists! [read more]
OATmedia is the specialist unit, within Oxford Aviation Training (OAT), which conceives, designs, develops and produces self-teach, interactive, multi-media computer based training (CBT) material, on CD-ROM, covering the academic subjects associated with pilot training. These subjects include: Meteorology, Principles of Flight, Human Performance & Limitations, Navigation, Engines, Instrumentation, Radio Telephony Communications, and many more. The CBT created by OATmedia's designers and programmers has become established in the aviation training community as second to none.
In 1997, Oxford Aviation Training, one of the world's foremost professional pilot training schools, took the decision to develop an instructor-led, classroom Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) system covering the whole of the European Joint Aviation Authorities Air Transport Pilot's License (JAA ATPL) ground training syllabus This decision was strongly influenced by the introduction of the new JAA ATPL license in many European countries which, until 1997, had operated with separate national licenses.
After leading the European effort to compile a detailed objective syllabus for JAA ATPL ground training , OAT took the decision to teach that syllabus in the classroom using new computer based methods.
Very soon after CAI was completed, in 2000, OAT quickly moved into the field of self-teach, interactive computer based training (CBT) for its distance learning students. We began with interactive, multi-media CD-ROM-based courses in Radio Telephony Communications. Then, the UK Met Office heard of our work, and cooperated with us to produce the first purely academic JAA ATPL ground course in self-teach, multi-media CBT format: Meteorology. That CBT has been an enormous success. It enables OAT distance learning students to follow a self-teach CBT course at home, containing all the expertise of OAT's ground instruction. It is as if the students have an instructor at home with them, plus, of course, the advanced computer-generated graphics illustrating all those aspects of Meteorology which cannot be put across by still diagrams in books.
After the Met project, the OAT Design & Development Department embarked on a project to put the whole of the JAA PPL ground and flying training syllabus content onto self-teach multi-media CBT. Since the completion of that project , in 2003, the Design & Development Department of OAT has been re-established as a separate business unit, bearing the name OATmedia. OATmedia is now producing another 7 CBT titles. These titles range from specialist pilot training products to CBT for the general education market.
Recently, we have extended our product-range to include self-teach CD-ROMs in the general education subjects of Maths and Physics: Essential Mathematics Part One and Essential Physics Part One. Further CD-ROMs in the "Essential" series will be released over the coming years. The series will eventually include all the subjects making up a typical secondary school syllabus.
The OATmedia Team
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Les Fellows |
Jon Kalicki |
Cristina Messaggi de Souza |
Chris Hill |
Manager - OATmedia |
Principal Designer |
Product Sales & Administration |
Multimedia Designer / 3D Artist |
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James Al Kenny |
Sam Tierney |
Mohammed Afzal-Khan |
Monica Messaggi de Souza |
Multimedia Designer |
Multimedia Designer |
Multimedia Designer / Programmer |
Multimedia Designer / Programmer |
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Lesley Smith |
Antoine Cutayar |
Jim Jobson |
Steve Patridge |
Multimedia Designer |
Multimedia Designer |
Subject Specialist |
Subject Specialist |
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Rhodri Davies |
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Subject Specialist |
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