Mainframe Courseware
An important component in the delivery of the training was the development of mainframe courseware: student hand-outs, sample programs, skeleton programs, workshops, and training aids. Computer Education Techniques courseware incorporates industry standard content and consultancy derived techniques for coding and debugging applications written in legacy programming languages inclusive of performance design and optimization with IBM system software. The collective efforts of our subject matter experts, who average 30+ years experience in IBM mainframe technology, are managed by editors, with multidisciplinary expertise in information technology, text book authoring, and degrees in management and business administration. The classic principles of adult learning are applied to the content, interpreting and translating subject matter into performance objectives, narrative descriptions, and diagrams which explain the design, program logic and underlying architecture. The courseware has been designed to utilize a variety of presentation formats: textual, tabular, diagrammatic, bullet point, and code snippets. The CETi courseware library has been incrementally augmented, revised, and maintained. It is highly valued, especially with legacy mainframe programming languages, where there is a scarcity of up to date text books. At the client discretion, assessment validation can be provided.

For organization’s that have a requirement for its employees to teach mainframe courses or have the content available for presentation through a web-based learning medium, SYS-ED will license the courseware.

Courseware as Learning Center
SYS-ED mainframe’s courseware has been organized into a learning center. It is a by product of a commitment to excellence and helping information technology professionals learn. The courseware as a learning center is used in conjunction with teaching mainframe training programs:

Educational Consultancy and Value Added Service
SYS-ED recognizes and differentiates between industry standard content and educational consultancy. The client selects the examples, sample programs, and exercises. When required, courseware will be developed to address client-specific coding standards. Operating system and system programming courses are taught using a combination of IBM manuals, red books, and modular extensible courseware, the client selects or designates the walkthroughs, examples, code snippets, and exercises to be included in the courseware. At the client discretion, SYS-ED will develop presentation slides to be utilized in conjunction with industry standard textbooks.

Consultation Prior to Accepting a Training Assignment or Enrolling an Employee in a SYS-ED Course
It is standard operating procedure to schedule a telephone consultation with our Director of Education. As part of this process we will review the subject matter, sample programs, workshops, and installation standards and provide a training plan in writing. For organizations evaluating whether to send an employee to a SYS-ED course, we require that a profile form be completed and submitted both by the manager and the employee who will be trained. It is our prerogative to ensure that the employee has the prerequisite background for the training. Not everyone is allowed to enroll in a SYS-ED course.

New York State Department of Education - Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision
In order to validate the quality of our work, SYS-ED’s core mainframe curriculum has been submitted for review to the New York State Department of Education - Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision. Mainframe courseware is being prepared for evaluation as a NRV: Nationally Recognized Vendor in order to address a void in the market by the source software companies in interrelated and hybrid areas of information technology.