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"The people at FutureU are creative thinkers and revolutionary educators, combining technological sophistication with highly developed people skills. A pleasure to work with, reliable, thorough and innovative."

- Lisa Faithorn, Ph.D.
Cultural Anthropologist
NASA Ames

Gail and ClaudeFutureU is Claude Whitmyer and Gail Terry Grimes, along with selected professional associates who are all either experienced educators or expert organizational consultants or both.
     Large organizations as diverse as the American Hospital Association, the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Apple Computer, Fujitsu America, Hitachi, and the community colleges of the California Virtual Campus have relied on FutureU for our analysis, consulting, research, and training services. Our higher-ed clients have ranged from Dominican University of California to King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
     We have also helped dozens of small and micro businesses trying to navigate the rough waters of the volatile global economy as well as hundreds of individuals trying to find and keep meaningful work in those same economically challenged businesses.
     Getting good advice from a knowledgeable source can "make or break" any initiative, large or small. As one of the best of the small firms specializing in analysis, communications, and the productive applications of technology, FutureU offers wise counsel and "get-it-done" capabilities.


Our Mission  FutureU's mission is to help organizations make the most of their investment in technology for virtual communications and distance or blended learning. We provide strategic planning advice, readiness and needs assessments, instruction for teachers and trainers or students and trainees, and evaluation of project success. We also study the industry, looking for the best of the best software and hardware, and negotiating great prices for our client organizations.

  • Technology. As a value-added reseller of software and hardware for virtual and blended communication and learning, we have identified a handful of excellent products that we believe deserve your consideration. These fall into three categories:

    • Content Creation (Putting the pieces together.)
    • Content Delivery (Web and video conferencing tools and an asynchronous solution that is partially Moodle-based.)
    • Collaboration (Developing successful learning communities.)

  • Training. We are especially proud of of our instructor training in the pedagogy and practices of online instructional design and delivery.  We are equally proud of our two-week orientation to the online classroom for college students or organizational learners. Both are available in self-paced or facilitated formats, via online or blended delivery. And both have received rave reviews.


  • Research. FutureU publishes research reports of interest to our clients. Among these is a comparison of leading course management software packages that thousands of decision makers have read. More recently we have completed reports on virtual collaboration software and open source software.


People

Us

People helping people. It's what you do with it.The FutureU Associates are experts in research, education, communications, and organizational development. We were advocating the appropriate use of technology to encourage collaboration and improve performance long before it became popular to do so.

You

People helping people. It's not the technology.

    FutureU clients and customers are:
    • teachers and students
    • department heads, deans, and administrator
    • trainers and workers
    • managers and administrators
    • internal and external consultants

    Who work with or are employed within...
    • colleges and universities
    • health-care and other non-profit organizations
    • corporations and small businesses

    And who are...
    • engaged in lifelong learning and virtual communication
    • looking for tools to make life and work easier, more productive, more rewarding
    • hoping to find products and services that are easy to learn, easy to use, and cost effective
Facts 

People helping people. It's not just the technology.FutureU is headquartered in San Francisco, with an east coast field office in Wells, Maine and a sales office in Richmond, Virginia. Our Consulting Associates maintain their own offices in many major U.S. and international locations.

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