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. SYS-ED 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, who have 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. Our 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. For organization’s who have a requirement for their own employees to teach mainframe subject matter or the need to have content available for presentation through a web-based learning medium, we will tailor and license our courseware.

Educational Consultancy and Value Added Service
SYS-ED recognizes and differentiates between industry standard content and educational consulting. We review documented coding standards and then have the client select the examples, sample programs, and exercises from our courseware library. If necessary, we will create new ones and also provide skeleton programs. At the client discretion, assessment validation can be provided.

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 or Curriculum Manager. 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 will 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.