Double-header with friends from Canada and Dr. Michael Allen

The Canadian Consulate Trade Office is sponsoring our discussion of Global eLearning Supply Chain Management. The eLearning Industry is similar to automobile manufacturing. Ford, Daimler, Honda, BMW, Toyota, and their kin don't make cars from raw materials; they assemble them from components made by other companies. A car may contain a Blaupunkt radio, Michelin tires, Bosch sparkplugs, and KONI shocks.

eLearning companies don't make end-to-end solutions from scratch either. Often a "general contractor" farms out development, testing, measurement, coding, and other pieces of the whole. These days, both car parts and eLearning parts may come from different countries. We'll explore how this "supply chain" works and how to take advantage of it.

Michael Allen is the primary architect of Authorware (now folded into Macromedia), a chief designer of PLATO, CEO of Allen Interactions, and author of the new book Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company.

More importantly, Michael is a guru with the gift of gab, a Ph. D. who actually communicates with words and images anyone can understand. The first chapter of his new book, titled "Plain Talk," begins “Success is getting people to do the right thing at the right time!” Bravo! At our March meeting, he’s going to talk with us about how to do just that.

Getting there

The Fairmont is at 950 Mason Street, SF; Corner of California & Mason. [Directions]

For remote participants

We're trying the Elluminate system this month. You will need to download software onto your computer in order to attend remotely. Please allow time to do this before the meeting starts. This is a one-time installation.

Use this link to download: http://www.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/demo?&password=vC
lass

To join the meeting on March 7, please go to on the following
link at 7:45AM Pacific or later (remember, introductions start at 8:45 pacific):

http://www.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/demo?password=1719141772

If you are unable to load the software beforehand, you will be
prompted to download Sun Microsystem's Java Web Start (or OpenJNLP for Mac), when you first join the session. [Alternate download link at Elluminate]

The minimum PC requirements are a Pentium II 266 Mhz with 64MB
of memory and a sound card. The minimum Mac requirements are a g3 233 Mhz
with 64MB of memory when using OS 9.0 - 9.2 or 128MB of memory when using OS
X. If using OS X, Elluminate requires OX X 10.1 or later.

To get maximum benefit from the session, you should have a
microphone in addition to your speakers.

Please allow 30 minutes prior to the start of the session for the software installation. If you have any problems, please call Elluminate's customer
support team at 866-388-8674 or see the vClass FAQ.