Skill out partners and distribution
- 2. RoadMap 1. SkillOut Overview 2. SkillOut Partners a. Certified Application Add-on Developers b. Course Content Developers c. Courses Development Consultants d. Third Party Evaluators e. Our Partnership Strategy 3. SkillOut Distribution a. Distribution Experiments Nut-shells b. Final Outcome 4. The Team
- 3. SkillOut Overview.. SkillOut.com -- Collaborative Learning Cloud is a proof of new innovative ideas helping tear down the walls of the current education system. Collaborative Learning Cloud System (CLCS) -- the state-of-the-art online collaborative learning environment and make it universally accessible and usable. CLCS is provides learning environment for different types of the target audience, supporting infrastructure, content development, consulting services and post-learning infrastructure and environment.
- 4. ..SkillOut Overview We must invent a new system from scratch: ● with the new technologies from today, ● using the latest knowledge about learning (neuroscience), ● taking into account the needs of tomorrow. Following are the key prominent features of Skillout: ● Usability; ● Automatic Guiding Engine; ● Built-in Team Collaboration; ● To Do Lists, Tasks Management and Project Management; ● Central Knowledge Repository; ● Intelligent Collaboration Suggestion Engine. More information about our project is here: SkillOut/About Us
- 5. SkillOut Partners Skillout is a first collaborative learning cloud system in the history of education systems and having the following key business partners: a. Certified Application Add-ons Developers The certified application add-ons developers are IT professionals who will learn the skillout learning cloud and after passing a comprehensive test, will serve the customers in their need identifications and customization of their requirements. Currently we have engaged 5 application add-ons developers to participate in the beta test of the application.
- 6. ..SkillOut Partners b. Course Content Developers The course content developers are Graphic Designers, Video/ Audio Editing Experts who will help the skillout customers to help them out to launch their professionaly well-developed courses in shortest possible time. Currently we have enegaged 3 Graphic Designers and 4 Videos/ Audio Editing Experts.
- 7. ..SkillOut Partners c. Courses Development Consultants The Courses Development Consultants are the education sysems experts in course need identification, course syllabus developed and course content development. These experts will help the Universities to design coruses to server a large area segment of the world population by using their expert knowledge base. Currently we have engaged two courses development consultants.
- 8. ..SkillOut Partners d. Third Party Evaluators Third Party Evaluators are the education system's auditors who will help the customer universitites to evaluate their teaching infrastructure, courses, course-in-line-monitoring, students and the quality serving of the system. This will help us to improve our system and Universities will get the benefits to improve their educaiton systems. Currently we have 2 third party evaluators engaged with us to test the beta system.
- 9. ..SkillOut Partners e. Our Partnership Strategy Our partnership strategy is straight to help out the customer Universities according the their needs. We have an integrated well-planned, well-designed infrastructure of our partners which is horizontally and vertically scalable. The key segment in this infrastructure is a scoreboards to promote the performing partners, so everyone take more benefits from their quality service performance.
- 10. SkillOut Distribution SkillOut.com has a glocalized application system (A mixture of globalized and localized) and having a network of distributors at country levels. The main focus of distributors is to provide the local support and customization of the application in local education norms. Currently we have following distribution network: ● Master Eyes, LLC – USA; ● Harizma Life – Ukraine; ● Mair IT – Middle East. The above companies are in contract with the skillout.com to launch the services in the respective countries.
- 11. ..SkillOut Distribution Besides the above partners, we have adopted the following online channels to promote the business and get customers: ● Commission Junction – World's Largest Online Commission Based Sales Network; ● Share A Sale – Another well performing commission based sales network; ● Affiliate Program – We have a comprehensive affiliate program for quality business organizations to share the
- 12. ..SkillOut Distributions a. Distribution Experiments Nut-shells We have did different experiments to reach and obtain customers and summarized the following points: Online Advertisement – Helps to find the students but not the Universities as customers. Social Media Compaigns – The same results, find the students but not the Universities as customers. Personal References – Great Results to get the letter of interest from the Universities. Professors Recommendations – Great Results to get the letter of interest from the Universities.
- 13. ..SkillOut Distributions b. Final Outcome Currently, we are succeeded to get our first customer who will participate us to thoroughly test the application's beta version due by the end of August 2013.
- 14. The Teamhe Team Olya Zakharova, Ukraine – Ph.D. in Economics, two master degrees in Economics and Computer Sciences, Associate Professor in Kharkov National University of Economics, leading the team with her vision of future quality education. Azhar Mateen, USA – Co-founder of three companies, having master degrees in business and computer sciences, he is backed-up by a diversified business & technologies experience. João Teixeira Soares, Germany – A valuable team member supporting by providing his IT expertise from Germany. Auguste Yeboue,Nigeria – Adding to the team geographic and skills diversity. An experienced African IT project manager who did an MBA to add fun to his life !
- 15. The Team Farhan Ahmed Hashmi, Saudi Arabia – A Techno Commercial Professional basically a Computer Engineer with an MBA, works as a Products and Strategy Manager in a leading telecom operator in KSA. Eric Karwowski, USA – An Entrepreneur and founder of two companies. Student at Stanford's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Manager and IT professional working with the largest companies in the world. Javier Vega Cifuentes, Chile – Industrial Engineer with more than 3 years of work experience. Knowledge in Supply Chain, Processes, Costs, Simulation, Management Control, Planning, Analysis and Data Processing, Research, BI, Continuous Improvement, Production, Innovation, Standardization, Logistics, ISO 9001, Finance and Plan Internet Marketing.
- 16. The Team Zuhair Sagga, Saudi Arabia – More than 4 years Solution/Software Developer with vast background of business development/modeling, database design and stakeholder engagement skills and expertise acquired in public and private sectors. Love to have FUN while working. Muhammad Abdur Rehman Khawaja, Pakistan – Mechatronics Grad and Visionary Entrepreneur. Research interests are: Robotics, Industrial Automation, Computer Vision, Control System, Embedded System Design. Experience in conducting research activities and organizing Hand on Workshops. Jonathan Pinones, Chile – Industrial Engineer with about 6 years of experience. Business Process Management; SAP Planning Production, Logistics and Sales. Design and Development Web. Instructor