Helping you work and learn together—no matter where you are.

Virtual Learning and Collaboration

FutureU's consultants, instructional designers, trainers and researchers are seasoned professionals with national and international reputations. Let FutureU add value to your investment in technology for virtual communication and learning.

By itself, even the best technology won't guarantee success with distance education or virtual communication. Other essential ingredients are:

• A current understanding of the technology marketplace
• Careful planning
• Accurate needs and readiness assessments
• Participant buy-in
• Training in technology skills and best practices
• Superior content
• Skilled facilitation
• Professional evaluation

Organizations as diverse as the American Hospital Association, the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Hitachi, and the community colleges of the California Virtual Campus have relied on FutureU for these and other value-added services. Our higher-ed clients have ranged from Dominican University of California to King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

FutureU continuously monitors the evolution and development of technology solutions for teamwork, meetings, and learning. We look for the best of breed among all the products on the market and make recommendations about the ones we think our clients should use.

Full disclosure: We have reseller agreements with a few of the vendors we recommend. Through these relationships, we are usually able to negotiate better prices than our clients could get for themselves. Even so, we never recommend a product unless it's the best solution for the client and we never make a recommendation just to get the commission.

We spend most of our time and effort delivering value-added services which include research, training and strategy and implementation consulting.

Getting good advice from a knowledgeable source can "make or break" a technology initiative and FutureU is among the leading experts in virtual learning, technology-mediated collaboration and online community building

It's a rare day when FutureU endorses any product. To date, only a handful have made the cut. Each one has features that set it apart. We use these products ourselves and support them willingly with our own approach to making IT investments payoff, including helping you identify what you need, which products will best serve those needs, and how to get the most out of all your virtual communications and learning initiatives.