 So I'll come back everybody in the second half of the hangout. We're gonna talk about the micro master program Now we have a doctor Eva Alfonso and she's the executive director of micro master and supply chain management. So Eva please Thank you And good morning. Good afternoon and good evening global supply trainers. I'm so happy to be here and congratulations You are almost about to finish a C1 X supply chain fundamentals This is great I just want to to share with you some General data about the program the micro master program Let you know that you are part of a huge program with thousands of students very motivated all of them Yeah, just to bring you some share with you some general data Talk a little bit more about the program and more specifically what comes next, which is the the next part of After a C1 X. Yeah, okay. Um, as always free to ask any questions you you might have So regarding the the program so the micro master program started in fall 2015 when president Ray the president of MIT announced the first micro master at MIT They decided to choose the supply chain management was at the first micro master program We we started to Develop create and launch the the five courses that the that Are part of this micro master program? So the the idea behind the program is to democratize the knowledge is to create a program Open for everyone for anyone anywhere just with a computer a laptop or a computer and internet connectivity You can access to this massive open online courses open enrollment As you know so you can enroll in the course and the materials are for free for everyone If you want to pursue for a certificate, then you need to to be a verified student That means that you need to pay a fee one hundred and fifty dollars per course Also verify your identity and in this sense you are going to be a verified a student and you come pursue for this Certificate Important part of you know verification the idea application. I mean, which is summer students forget to you know This is something that you need to fix as soon as possible the verification process include two steps First is that you need to pay the fee that means that the fee to for the certificate The second part is to verify your ID and this is a very relevant You need to to take your picture your your ID government a car picture to and the verification is a must It's something that you need to be is required if you do not need this requirement You are not able to to to have the certificate in in se1x So please fix this as soon as possible if this is the case So then a fall 2015 president raised rape announced the the micro master programs apply to in management well, this is a a new program in the sense that is a Graduate level Courses that means that the contents that we are teaching in you know sex courses are a Same content that we are teaching here on campus. So these are gradually to level a contents After completing the five courses Student can apply for a master degree at MIT. So this is a new way to to have To have a student and to admit a student at MIT in a master degree program So this part is very is a new way to to to to offer this Master level education to to to people around the world. So some general data about the program So far since we started the first course was developed by Chris Kapliz in 2014 and was this course was a se1x supply chain fundamentals. This was our first course in the program in 2014 and since this moment to now more than 170,000 students Have been enrolled in our courses in our different sex courses. So from from this number 11,000 are verified learners learners that We mentioned they pay and they are ID verify the student and they are from more than 196 countries Almost so almost all the countries, you know, it's almost 200 here And so far today, we we issue a more than 14,000 certificates in the in the program different sex courses, okay, so This is about the General data about the program. Let's see now where our students are from. So maybe they are from the 20% of our students are from the United States 10% are from India and this number is getting is is raising a lot in the latest The latest course that we just opened the number of Indian student is almost 20% It's touching the 20% we also have a lot of a student from Brazil from Mexico from Germany from Spain from yeah Spaniards Okay, so yeah, so this is where our students are from. Let's have a look now to them To the program. So the micro master program as I mentioned before includes five massive open online courses You guys I guess that you already complete a Supply chain analytics. You are almost about to finish supply chain fundamentals and C1x The next course is supply chain design supply chain design We are going to open a week zero This Wednesday on April the fifth and week one the first week of contents is going to start on April the 12th So if this course doesn't start right after completing a C1x So we and then after supply chain design We we will offer supply chain dynamics in June 2017 and then in fall 2017 We will offer again supply chain technology and systems So with this you will have the opportunity to complete the five courses that are part of the micro master program Once the student pass as a very fight the five courses then they can see it in the proctor Final exam. This is going to be a comprehensive final exam And the idea is just to assess your your knowledge in the five courses and to assess the that your Ability to apply all of the concept that you have learned in the micro master program at the end of the program Then once you once you pass this comprehensive final exam You will be able to earn the micro master credential in supply chain management This is a an standalone certificate the certificate Allow you to go to the industry to apply for a job or you can also apply for a master degree program You can do this at the 19. We are offering what we call the master Master degree program is the master the blended master a supply chain management So you can apply to this blended blended master here at MIT But also in different universities around the world Saragossa is offering this and all the universities And if they apply if they get that certificate and if they apply and if they get approved They're gonna sit together with the traditional MIT students Yes, definitely. There are two things that I want to have. If they go that mission then they are going to be part of This blended program and doing this this semester that they are going to spend on campus They are going to spend five months on campus. They are going to share with the regular residential students Courses classes and they are going to be part of the It's a great opportunity definitely The the question is as always It's limited we can only offer to 40 students per year per Program, but yes, it is a great great opportunity This is a very good point I'm at because since they they can apply to this program if they are Admitted in the program then we are going to convoy rate The the courses the SCX courses as MIT credits That's why it's also very important the comprehensive final exam and we need to also to assess the knowledge Because at the end these five Courses are going to be equivalent to 42 units of credits at MIT. So this is also Important point here. Thank you. Okay, so let's Go to the next slide So we we we are now Almost almost about to have our first micro master pipeline Coords these are the students that already complete and pass as a very fine C0x a C1 a C2 a C3 and they are now almost about to Complete a C4x next week is going to be the final exam and we have 1200 students that are Potential candidates to be micro masters student and to earn the micro master certificate Where are these students from? They are 30 percent are from the United States a 5% the second country is Spain go with Spaniards from 5.6 percent Is the second country and then we have people from India from Brazil and Germany from Canada from? Yes from more than one hundred Counties also UK. Yeah, it's another important Country represented some people from Australia 1.3% of our students are from Australia too. So yeah, so this is the first a Core the first micro master pipeline This is student. They are going to have the comprehensive final exam May 2017 by the end of May they will have this comprehensive final exam And after that they will earn the certificate they can use for for apply for a job Or they can use to apply for the master degree at MIT or a other universities that are also in this blended program Okay, so this is about the current micro master pipeline let's come back to To to your curriculum you are currently as we we mentioned Almost about to complete se1x. So what next next is se2x What are we going to do? What are you going to learn in supply chain design supply chain design? It's a course that are going to take care about the flow of material We are going to to teach how to To solve network design problems and we are also going to Analyze and to study the flow of information and also the a finance flow the So in se2x you are going to have a the first block about a Network Problems then we are going to go to a production planning then we will move to a procurement And finally we will cover finance in supply chain. So this is mainly the The contents that you are going to review and learn in supply chain design After this course and we will offer supply chain dynamics Supply chain dynamics. Let's say it's going to be a little bit more qualitative course We will review here Supply chain dynamics We will go through supply chain strategy and also through global supply chain So we are going to to be out with the complexity of having let's say suppliers all over the world analyze the main challenges that a Most of the manufacturers retailers have when they need to be out with a global supply chain At the end of the of the program And you will have supply chain technology and system in this course. We focus mainly in In data management, we are start with the data analytics some How they teach you how to to design a relation and database management Also, we will move to supply chain systems. We will review the ERP system enterprise resource planning system We will also have a look to those supplier relationship management system customer relationship management system and also to more a Executive system like the transportation management system or warehousing management system So it's all about how to manage the information flows in a supply chain How the information technology is helping companies and organizations to manage this flow Then the the final comprehensive exam so these five courses we almost cover Know all the things in all the you know key concepts and key builds in the supply chain management So as I see we cover everything. So that's great Yeah, let's say that the the program is intended to cover the basics In supply chain management We are starting with the analytics tools that analytic tools that they They need for the all of the courses and then we move and we start to but it's also very applied all of the concept that we we Present in this program we try to apply to to real problems or to Realistic problems in industry. So let's say that we are starting with the basic tools Analytics the supply chain analytics and then we we start to go through inventory management and we go to network design problems or to Global supply chain Problems and try to apply the different tools in different contexts and problems in supply chain Yeah Okay, so in terms of a C2s as I mentioned a C2s is going to start Next Wednesday in one week so far we have 16,000 learners enrolled and I expect to increase this number During this the next week since you guys are now finishing a C1x We are now just Starting to promote the course and just the course is going to open in one week So so far we have 16 learn the 16,000 learners from 179 countries Week one that is the first week of contents will start on April the 12th So if the a C2x is the in terms of the structure of the course is going to be very similar to C1x and a C0x so far now we have eight weeks of content We are going to have you are going to have a meter exam plus a final exam one week time exam both One week off before the meeting on the final just to give you time to complete all of the great assignment before the exams and also to have time to prepare for the for the For a C1x week 11 is the so-called off-peak, but you have some materials in which 11 no great assignment, but there are some videos that that's assume it to be Off-peak for a C1x The week off the most important part for the week off is you do not have you are not going to have great Assignment in the week off. We always try to include some supplemental material Extra material something that can't help you maybe to have to wrap up the concept to fix some concepts that we already Thought in the course, but These weeks we are not going to include any great assignment because we really want to give you time guys to To complete the previous late assignment and also to prepare for the in this case for the fight final exam Yeah, forget next week is the final. Yes April defeat is going to open April defeat. It's going to close a Okay, can we move to the next slide please this one and the next one Excellent. So then as I mentioned in a C2x supply chain design We are going to cover all of the aspects involved in the design of a supply chain from the physical flow information flow and Monetary flow and finally we are going to to wrap up with the organization design We are going to use all of the basic tools Probability statistic that you you have learned in SC 0x Also, some of the tools that you have learned in SC 1x and then we are going to apply this concept in order to design Supply chain network Yeah, you have to prepare you for a C3 and a C4x. Let's have Yeah, so after each course as you know, you if you are a verified the student you can earn a Verified certificate This is per course so so per course so in each course you will earn the Certificate per course and at the end of the program once you pass the five courses as a verified the student and the Comprehensive final exam then you will earn the micro master credential the certificate in supply chain management Micro master credential in supply chain management As I mentioned a this is something that a Can be used to apply for a master degree a Program here at MIT Also in Saragossa and other universities Let's have a look now to the profile of the of our students So as you know, we have thousands of a student and is very We have very different the student from very different cultures and different also profiles So we have a student with that they are currently working in supply chain management. They they are seniors They have more than 15 years of experience They really won't just to to train themselves. They really want to be update with their Tools and the latest software some and try to to learn more about supply chain management And they are doing that and they are really really You can't see them in them in the forums and they are providing a very good insight and comments About the course the concept they experience So they are bringing let's say their experience to our courses We also have this profile of people that they have some a Two to five years of experience in supply chain management. They they just Recently entering the supply chain management field and they really want to to improve their career So we have this a kind of a student that are also trying to do these micro master credential in order to promote In the in their current jobs We also have those a student that that are a student. They are a student that already Got a bachelor degree They are pushing for a master degree or they are pushing for a for a PhD degree sometimes And we really want to know and learn more about supply chain management. So We also have a this profile of a student and some companies are you know, you know recognizing this micro master program, so it's going to be A good program. So I think if you have this certificate in your CV resume, so it's going to be helpful Yeah, definitely is is at the end the program covers the the basic the Foundations of the supply chain management So it's a way to to demonstrate that you have the ability and you have the knowledge in these Basic concepts in supply chain management. Okay, I'm just to wrap up some testimonials that I know that you all love this. We have a sneak from India He was very thankful because he thanks to this program. He Finally he got a job in supply chain management We also have Maria from Spain Maria was a Bachelor student in the technical University of Madrid She's now a master degree student in Denmark and she she really wanted to learn more about supply chain management She wanted to apply to to the master degree at MIT So these are just some some examples and this is the team. This is a team effort. This program cannot happen We do not have this great team with our teaching assistant with our postdocs. I'm at a did a great job coordinating this course Arthur with he's our community manager This is the one that really really is the king of this program is Filming all almost all of the videos. So this is great and hopefully definitely is a team effort So this is just a picture of on the team that are behind with many many hours of work doing this for for you guys That's all from my side. Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here with you today Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you so much You are so we actually running out of time. So and you cover most of the things and I think Yeah, we are all set. So and I know that Arthur is replying people so Thank you so much. Thank you so much. It was the last hangout event for sc1x See you in sc2. I'm best of luck in the final exam and see you in sc2x. Thank you. Thank you