The MindCooker advantage for e-learning… and much more !

If you are a leading company seeking a robust e-learning solution to continuously train employees and enhance their competencies while building upon internal expertise, then MindCooker is the ultimate answer for you.

When used for e-learning and training purposes, MindCooker functions as a fully featured and highly reliable CMS/LMS/LCMS solution. Besides, MindCooker can seamlessly integrate with your existing LMS system, offering you the option to deactivate this functionality from MindCooker or having two LMS operating simultaneously.

Though MindCooker has proven extremely advantageous in the e-learning/training area, it has a much larger scope. MindCooker steps beyond usual CMS/LMS/LCMS solutions and offers you much more:

• MindCooker integrates e-learning/training into a more a more global vision of Knowledge Management, which enables subject matter experts in different areas to capitalize on each other’s know-how to respond to their own needs more swiftly and effectively. Hence, a marketer can reuse a tutorial created by an instructor and add it to a sales presentation to educate a customer. Likewise, an instructor can import a product data sheet created from a sales book and reuse in a training course.
  
• MindCooker approaches employee learning/training as a key source of a company’s Knowledge asset as a whole. Hence, it aims to capitalize the knowledge asset by building on employee know-how and to maximize employee know-how by harnessing the knowledge asset .

Much more than a common CMS/LMS/LCMS solution

Existing in the market since few years ago, CMS, LMS and LCMS are complimentary systems that basically focus on the management and delivery of personalized learning content as well as the administration of learners and learning events.

MindCooker, takes a step further into Knowledge Management, by offering you the following:

1> Rapid creation, delivery and updating of custom content: Through MindCooker Knowledge Management capability, instructional designers and subject matter experts can easily:

• Maintain independent chunks of instructional material as meaningful knowledge object in a repository (knowledge-base). Meaningful knowledge objects are known as Re-usable Learning Objects (RLOs) in the area of e-learning.
• Assemble RLOs from the knowledge repository to create larger information sets for learning events: Courses, on-line libraries, on-line job aids, ...
• Create new RLOs using MindCooker Authoring to address new performance goals, audiences and publishing media: chapters, evaluations, exercises, tutorials, quizzes, etc

2> Highly personalized learning experience: MindCooker enables you to personalize the learning experience so that learners receive and retain the knowledge they need:

• Add and remove RLOs from an instruction set to meet individual learning needs and levels
• Personalize learning content by adapting interactivity, navigation and appearance
• Deliver simultaneously learning through different outputs (CD ROM, PC Pocket, internet, intranet, documentation, ...) using MindCooker Publishing.
• Offer learning through different methods: Online self-study, Instructor-Led Training (ILT), classroom training, e-books, ...
• Multilingual interface

3> Unmatched collaboration: Putting Knowledge Management at the heart of your learning activities, MindCooker provides a collaborative framework to capitalize company-wide knowledge and build upon others experience and know-how. The net result is a richer and more valuable "learning objects" capital.

4> Seamless integration: MindCooker can interoperate with any LMS or other external application based on international standards (IMS, AICC and SCORM). It also seamlessly integrates with off-the shelf as well as with tailor made AICC/SCORM compliant contents.

5> Learning Management Features:

• Learners: Register learners as individuals or groups
• Learning events: Schedule on-line and off-line courses to fit individual and organizational needs. Manage calendars; assign dates, locations, attendees, authors, ...
• Prerequisite courses: Enforce prerequisite courses based on test completion
• Learning resources: Labs, classrooms, etc

6> Track and upload off-line training scores and results once trainers connect to the server while synchronizing with courses new issues or updates.

7> Effective Performance follow-up:

• Tracking: Track learners’ enrolment, activity and progress.
• Multi-level reporting: Generate standard and customized reports about learners’ performance, scores, ...
• Evaluation: Create competency maps and skill gaps analyses.
• Recording: maintain learner profile data.

8> Other useful utilities:

• Instructors database: Record their expertise, calendars, ...
• Launch e-courses
• e-mail notification for enrolment.
• Catalogue browsing and searching.
• Version control.

Benefits at a glance:

• Compresses the time to develop custom learning content: reducing redundancy in course creation and updating.
  
• Shortens learners’ time-to-knowledge through personalized learning experience.
  
• Maximizes employee knowledge retention through engaging learning content.
  
• Boost the effectiveness of company-wide learning and training through efficient management
  
• Encourages collaboration between instructors, instructional designers and their colleagues in other areas.
  
• Ensures that content is future-proof against advances in technology, changes in the “look & feel” or evolutions in the publishing media.

MindCooker functional scheme for e-learning & training:

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