Training & Adaptation of existing resources
	Educational Engineering
	Product Design

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Training & Adaptation of existing resources

Training is not a preparation for professional work. It is one essential aspect of it.

ClassLeader brings together a team of specialists who have the habit of addressing the major questions concerning training today and providing solutions for them including :

	Training strategies within the global environments where technology plays a key role,
	Organization of distance and multimedia based training,
	Creation and supply of productivity tools for training (for networks and multimedia),
	Web hosting for training experiments and programs,
	Technical assistance,
	Adaptation of existing resources with the company (audiovisual & documentary) to training needs,
	Production of multimedia & HTML training modules,
	Piloting of training Web sites,
	Implementation of complex solutions to training problems,
	Training the trainers,
	perception/communication,
	personal research/document production,
	competence/performance,
	trainer follow-up/learner autonomy.

Our team has been active in all aspects of training over the past 20 years and has acquired a diversified experience of training methods and technologies. We have taken the time to reflect, act, analyze the results and create a wide range of specific and generic solutions. Since 1983 we have innovated in the design and implementation of training resource centers, interactive video and multimedia publishing. Our specialists are first of all trainers; their technical expertise in the widest range of technology is the result of their pragmatic experience of training problems.

Educational Engineering

The training process is as complex as any industrial process. It is subject to the same economic logic in terms of investment and productivity.

ClassLeader is a team made up of experienced educators who have, over the years, built a practice of using and developing technology in training contexts. Our concern has always been to find ways of using the benefits of technology in the cause of training, to make both teaching and learning easier and richer experiences. Most of the team has moved from training itself to the experimentation and then the development of technology-based tools, seen as a necessary and active complement to the trainer's work, one that makes new, more effective methods of trainer-led instruction possible.

Our first concern is to put our knowledge of systems (audio-visual, networks, multimedia) to work to promote and ensure educational or better defined as pedagogic coherency. Educational systems engineering aims at finding the best and most feasible solution to a training problem. Our appreciation of the organizational stakes as well as the delicate question of evolving corporate or educational culture and its impact on individual and group behavior, enables us to define solutions that integrate psychological considerations alongside the traditional educational and technical ones.

Educational systems engineering lends itself to action on several different levels:

	design of systems and the products that compose the systems,
	ensuring the coherence of systems developed for training within the organization and culture of the company or institution, especially in transitional periods where there is rapid transformation of habits and behavior,
	preparation and training of key personnel involved directly or indirectly in new projects,
	communication strategies,
	system maintenance and follow-up,
	information and documentary resource management .

Human behavior with regard to training and the effect of training on human behavior will be radically different to everything that has occurred in the past. Making a success of this and learning to manage it productively requires subtle and thorough educational or pedagogic system engineering.

Product Design

From the chalkboard to full multimedia presentations, the educational environment has definitively changed.New products must take into account those changes.

Linked at the same time to educational systems engineering, networks and multimedia, product design or educational product design takes on a new dimension today. Our first concern is to put our knowledge of systems (audio-visual, networks, multimedia) to work to promote and ensure educational or pedagogic coherency. While educational systems engineering aims at finding the best and most feasible solution to a training problem, product design focuses more closely at the defined professional or personal goal of the course. Our appreciation of the organizational implications as well as the delicate question of evolving institutional culture and its impact on individual and group behavior, enables us to define solutions that integrate psychological considerations alongside the traditional educational and technical ones.

Our approach to product design is built on the notion that in learning there are complementary phases for integrating the subject matter in depth. This method requires making varied use of the following complementary parameters:

	the learner's global and detailed perception of contexts and environments related to the subject matter studied,
	the construction of a system of understanding, which is both personal and social,
	a set of lived experiences punctuated by events which encourage the evolution of the identification process and develop memory through strong and complex associations,
	a plethora of opportunities for personal expression,
	simulation of complex processes and situations,
	authentic human interaction and mentoring.

At the bottom of all projects requiring product design there must be mature reflection on the context in which learning takes place and therefore on the full range of aspects that are usually taken into account in the educational or pedagogic engineering approach.