Distance Education in the Context of Fire Departments: a Systematic Literature Review
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Distance education, Firefighters, Fire department, Systematic literature review, SLRAbstract
Fire departments are institutions responsible for a number of complex operational services and the challenge is to be able to transmit knowledge to their staff in an efficient and far-reaching manner. Distance learning is an option for solving this problem. This paper presents a Systematic Literature Review aimed at verifying how distance education has been applied by Fire Departments and what impacts it is having on teaching, providing an overview of how institutions are positioning themselves in remote digital teaching over time. To this end, after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 22 studies were selected and analyzed according to the 5 research questions. It was possible to see that corporations, predominantly traditional with a focus on face-to-face instruction, are gradually introducing distance education, with a tendency towards hybrid training, managing to shorten distances and reduce costs. It was also observed that this theme still needs to be explored more by corporations and for this to happen, personal and organizational resistance needs to be broken down. The panorama presented here aims to provide a general and current view of distance education in the context of fire departments and contribute to future implementations.
Keywords: Distance education. Firefighters. Fire department. Systematic literature review. SLR.
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