Audencia

Each year Audencia nantes business school receives over 1,900 students of several nationalities in its 9 management training programs taught by some 70 professors and 300 associate experts. E-learning for Audencia is the centerpiece of a whole set of innovations in their CFDI program (open-ended training convention) designed to extend the learning process throughout the student's life.

The project

• Offer students e-learning courses taught by their professors for revising, catching up on missed courses, or refreshing their memory.

• Film courses and develop quality archives.

• Enrich videos with course materials and teacher's notes.

• Publish courses on an intranet.

• Manage intranet access.

The Manreo solution

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  Video encoding.

• Segmentation into chapters.

• Specific indexing by feature.

• Enrichment with additional information (text, audio tracks, bibliographies, PowerPoint presentations, hypertext links?).

• Synchronization with corresponding components in each chapter.

• Automatic publication and real-time updates of intranet Web pages.

• Advanced, multiple criteria search across entire catalog.

Advantages

• Easy to use for people who are not video processing experts (professors, students).

• Course videos are easily segmented by the indexing tool to extract unnecessary passages (roll calls, dead time in courses).

• Segmentation into chapters according to course structure and PowerPoint slides.

• Automatic transformation of PowerPoint documents into images for publication.

• Integration of teacher's notes not published with the course.

• Customizable publication template according to themes and users (teacher or student).

Benefits

Fast and efficient

• One hundred hours of courses already available as Web pages generated automatically via the Manreo software.

• Production capacity of 172 hours per person per year, dedicated to the production of e-learning courses (shooting, editing, enrichment, and publication).

Scalability

• Initial video description template can be enriched at any time with new components (such as tutorials, "chats", etc.) without starting from scratch.

Quality

• Fully customizable browsing interface and very stable publication of Web content.

Jean Guillemot, Director of the Campus Net and e-learning at Audencia"...The Manreo software we use daily to enrich and put the courses online is extremely reliable and lets us meet our productivity targets. That was a determining factor in our choice: many ambitious e-learning projects are stillborn because they produce only ten or twenty hours of courses after one year of work."

The next step

Audencia has achieved its productivity goals for its first year of e-learning course production with over 100 hours of courses that will be made available to students via a secure access. The goal: to go even further in course production.
Audencia has also implemented a series of innovations designed to extend the learning process throughout the student's life.