IT Foundation

MEC is a leading IT operating entity and data service provider in Jordan and the Middle East Region.  Since its establishment in 1996, MEC recognized the priority of knowledge transfer to our Region through learning and training.
 
MEC signed contract with Cisco System Inc. as a Cisco Regional/Local Academy.  For Cisco Regional/Local Academy MEC should establish 10 Local Academies in Jordan.  MEC provide to each Local Academy instructors and monitoring performance.

Regional/Local Academy will offer CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) qualification program to individual, Schools, Colleges, Universities and Companies. This program consists of (4) semesters, which is equivalent to (280) hours, about half of this time is spent using the instructor/facilitated on line multimedia material and the rest is spent on Lab exercises. This program is given over a minimum period of six months at a 12 hours/week, “2 hours/day”, at a minimum of 70 hours per semester.

Also MEC is offering other IT courses like Security, Projects Management, Internet Webmaster, E-Commerce, Multimedia Application, AutoCAD 2000, and 3D-Animation courses. As well as ICDL and Microsoft will be started on march/2004.

In 2003, MEC signed a contract with one of the largest training companies in the world, which is the Institute For International Research (IIR) who are the world’s largest privately owned business information provider; with business conferences, business information training, information technology training, trade exhibitions, and business information publishing.  MEC IT Foundation acts as IIR local representative in Jordan, coordinating and organizing IIR training courses in Jordan.

IIR is ideally placed in Dubai – U.A.E., and operates an international network of offices and events in 40 countries.  Since its opening, IIR Middle East Dubai has conducted over 700 conferences and seminars and held over 50 exhibitions in the Arab region, in a diverse range of topics.   At the same time, IIR offers In-House Training, which is the ideal solution for tailor-made group courses when expert tuition if not available within your organization.  These training courses are led by international, experienced, dynamic and entertaining presenters, within proven track records of training.

MEC Net Languages offers a web-based training language school for improving English Language competence and fluency.

MEC Red Hat Academy, the only Linux curriculum in the world designed for hands-on, performance-based instruction and assessments.

MEC’s IT Foundation–Training Center is close to the University of Jordan in addition to a couple of other colleges as well also connected to the Internet and has enough computer hardware facilities for each student to apply and use during the given courses, in addition to all other supplementary and complementary training materials required, to ensure trainees a healthy training environment.