E-Learning How to Make Perfect McDonald's French Fries on the Fly, Around the Globe

CHICAGO, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The McDonald's French Fry is a culinary classic, light golden brown, slightly crisp and lightly salted. Millions of McDonald's employees from around the globe may speak different languages, but they all know how to make the same irresistible fries that launched an empire. How do they do it? E-Learning.

Correct cooking is critical to the perfect taste. A multi-step process is strictly followed at the fry station. Training needs to be quick, effective and engaging.

McDonald's uses e-Learning modules to pre-train employees before they officially train shoulder-to-shoulder at the station with their Crew Trainer. E-Learning also reduces the amount of time crew trainers spend training new recruits and introducing new products or policies to existing employees, maximizing their time.

At the "2008 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards," the Emmys of e-Learning, McDonald's and NogginLabs, the e-Learning designer of choice for McDonald's, dominated the "Best Overall Custom Content" category, taking home a gold and silver.

"To design an e-Learning module as perfect as the customary French Fry, we divided the McDonald's e-Learning module into bite-sized bursts of e-Learning," said Brian Knudson, CEO of NogginLabs. "Employees click through carefully crafted scenarios that help them discover then digest the material. The format is visual and quick."

For a successive six years, Brandon Hall has lauded the NogginLabs team of e-Learning architects and artists for their art + science approach to e-Learning design. The results can be found at http://www.brandon-hall.com/awards/awards.shtml.

About NogginLabs, Inc.

NogginLabs is the e-Learning industry's most award-winning architect. NogginLabs' skilled team of instructional designers, writers, programmers, and project managers has created over 1,000 hours of custom, performance-based courses for Fortune 100 companies, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations. The high quality of the courses the designer delivers has garnered the firm preferred vendor relationships at companies such as Dell Inc., Northwestern University, ABN AMRO/LaSalle Bank, Capital One, Abbott Laboratories, JetBlue, and McDonald's. To learn more about NogginLabs, visit http://www.nogginlabs.com.