Delhi, 5th July’07: The MBD Group, India’s largest Publishing House with more than 3 decades of experience in the field of education today took another step into the future by launching ‘MBD Alchemie`, the new Interactive affordable online academy. ‘MBD Alchemie` is a pioneer project on online education, which will pave the way for mass education through standardized content developed by eminent faculty. Technologically, one of the best and simple education portal, this will be the only system which will teach and test at the same time. To introduce its unique concept ‘MBD Alchemie` will be providing a 15 days free demo on www.mbdalchemie.com. With an initial investment of Rs. 20 crore, ‘MBD Alchemie` will provide education at a very affordable price of approximately Rs.150 per month per subject.
In the initial phase, ‘MBD Alchemie’ is introducing courses for students of class 10th & 12th of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and AIEEE and AIPMT. In future, it plans to launch new courses on IIT-JEE, STATE CETs and State Boards (Xth and XIIth) and many more. ‘MBD Alchemie’ offers various short and long term courses varying from 3 months to 2 years. It also offers a unique course TAD i.e. Test and Discussion, where the students will be given tests and then they have the option of discussing online the problem with the subject matter expert.
With distinctive features like personalized coaching including self paced learning mechanism, self test tool, extensive self-education, online problem solving facility, and Virtual Class room; ‘MBD Alchemie’ is highly interactive.
The content of this academy has been developed in consultation with the best brains in the country and is also endorsed by eminent teachers from Kota and other parts of India. ‘MBD Alchemie’ is a customized Learning Management System (LMS) with in-built testing engine, with in-house subject matter experts, course coordinators, module coordinators and content editors. The Test modules are formulated for logical realization of the knowledge gained. It further enhances students’ knowledge by giving them tips and also through student performance analysis. The content is developed on unique instructional design specially developed by subject matter experts. MBD Alchemie has 14 offices spread over the country including Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bhopal, Patna, Lucknow, Kota, Cochin, Jaipur and Ahemdabad.
Commenting on the Group’s latest initiative Mr. Ashok Kumar Malhotra, CMD, MBD Group said, “MBD Alchemie is set to bring revolution in the current distant education. Its unique instructional design makes learning more effective”.
Speaking on the launch Ms. Monica Malhotra Kandhari, Director, MBD Group said, “MBD Alchemie` is poised to redefine online academy experiences by eliminating snags of traditional e-learning platform. The concept behind MBD Alchemie is to provide affordable quality education for successfully competing in various competitive and Board exams. ‘MBD Alchemie` brings countries top educationists to students, just a click away.
For providing the bandwidth for connectivity MBD Alchemie has tied up with Sify, India’s largest ISP and for convenience in connectivity it has joined hands with Sify I-Ways So that a student can study at any Sify I-ways in the country at no cost. Further to provide protected and secure online business it has an association with “Very Sign” which is an electronic file that identifies individuals and websites and enable encrypted communication. The Portal, MBDAlchemie.com is powered by the Learning Management System (LMS) and is developed with Microsoft .Net Platform and Microsoft SQL Server as backend.
In times like today where students are spending immense money to avail these courses, some are also relocating themselves away from home, many change their lifestyles dramatically to catch up with these courses and millions under go stress because of their pace of learning or learning curve, MBD Alchemie brings quality education at the students own place and also adapt to their pace and time to study at a highly affordable cost.
