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For several years now, students have been participating in 100% online courses. But until recently, it was difficult to get faculty to do their own continuing ed that way. The tide seems to be turning though. Case in point, FutureU just completed a 12-week program for Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning Division, in which we trained 160 faculty 100% online. Participants and decision makers were thrilled (see testimonials below).

Testimonials

"The program that you provided our 160+ online faculty members and several staff was immediately relevant to the context of teaching and learning at Thompson Rivers University. You clearly took the time needed to understand our needs and to tailor the training program to those needs. We received many comments from our faculty attesting to the time and effort you put into this endeavour. It seemed many times that you went over and above what was expected of you in regards to the amount of time that you spent answering questions and troubleshooting problems. "

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"...the quality of the training program was excellent with the vast majority of our faculty indicating increased competence in using both Elluminate Live! and Blackboard CE."

Colin Madland, E-Learning Facilitator
Thompson Rivers University
Open Learning Division

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FutureU Web

• Online Classrooms
• Training Rooms
• Open Source Test Lab
• GailTerryGrimes.Com
• ClaudeWhitmyer.Com

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Featured Videos

Check out the following videos. If something "clicks" for you as you watch them than we would likely be good friends and make a good team. Each video is just a few minutes long, thoughtful, and enlightening. To learn more about Gail Terry Grimes, Claude Whitmyer and FutureU's mission, Contact us directly.

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The Machine is Us-ing Us (4:34)

This video was published in 2007 and encapsulates the challenges we are facing in the brave new world of technology-mediated education. It helps give you an idea of the context for FutureU's mission in the world.

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Shift Happens (6:07)

This statistics-rich video was out of date the day it was published (also in 2007). But I like it best of all the existing versions. See list to the left for version with updated numbers (2009).

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A Student View (4:45)

"Shift Happens, from the student point of view. This short clip was produced by a group of 200 students who also appear in the clip. Eye opening look at how today's student see the technology revolution.

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"Unplug!" Another point of view (2:51)

Yelp! With apologies to Alan Ginzberg's Howl."

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