Underlying the concept of “a virtual teacher within a virtual classroom”, Multimedia Learning System (MMLS) was developed to address to the needs of the entire educational enterprise. It is an intelligent management system, which serves as a platform for the delivery of multimedia rich contents to its learners.

Within the technological framework, MMLS is designed as an intelligent, interactive, self-paced, instructor-led, web-based teaching and learning tools. To its user friendliness, it is platform and database independence, auto-administration, intelligent learner tracking, instructor-led course management and fully web based.

This innovative learning system received regional acclaim and acknowledgement, when it first surfaced as the winner of the Asia Pacific MSC IT and T Awards (APMITTA) in the year 2000. Recognition for this unprecedented system was given another deserving boost when it clinched the prestigious and much coveted Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Awards (APICTA) in 2001 for the Best of Learning Applications category. Recently, the system proved getting further recognition when the 4th version of it was awarded the Merit Award in Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Awards (APICTA - 2003) for the Best of Learning Applications category.

Key features of MMLS

· Course management by instructor
· Intelligent delivery system
· SCORM compliant.
· Auto sequencing slides
· Questions bank
· Auto administration
· On-line self test
· Short notes, course outline, past year exam paper
· Lecturer Notes, References
· E-mail, Chat, Discussion board
· On-line forum by course for asynchronous interactions
· Report on students progress in table and chart format
· Platform independent for Operating System and Database (uses ODBC concept)
· Developed fully using open source technology
· Extensive student monitoring and tracking
· m-Learning (e.g. SMS – coming soon)