After nearly 12 years in business as The University of the Future, LLC, Gail Terry Grimes and Claude Whitmyer have written thousands of words and conducted hundreds of hours of online training. This page offers up a few gems from among the many words. Some are sold through our online store, but many can be downloaded for free from this page or from our content-rich, invitation only membership site organized for our friends and associates who have purchased a copy of the 2009 Version of FutureU's Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course Web Site. If you "stumbled upon" us, and think you might be interested in the Bargain Guide or all the free and cheap information and tools within the content-based membership site, feel free to check out what the Bargain Guide's all about and purchase your own copy. When you purchase a Bargain Guide you get free access to all the password protected resources of this site.

In the meantime, feel free to check out the documents listed below to get sense of the scope and quality of our work.

NOTE: Clicking on links with just the $ will take you to a description page. Clicking on links with a price will add them to a shopping cart. Use your BACK button to return to this page. You can view the shopping cart at any time by clicking on the "View Cart" link in the left column of this page, or the "View Cart" button on any page in the store.——For any of the items below marked "Free" you can left or right click to download them.

Bargain Guide Bonuses — $

These six documents are included at no charge when you purchase a copy of The Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course Web Site. If you didn't purchase the Bargain Guide or if you want to recommend these documents to friends and associates, they may be purchased using the following links.

All six of these items are described in the FutureU Online Catalogue. Click here or on a title to visit the "e-documents" section of the catalog where you can scroll up and down to find the one your interested in.

• FutureU's Online Course Planner – (DOC-162kb) — $10.00.
• FutureU's Guide to Effective Email – (PDF-123kb) — $6.00.
• FutureU's Guide to Emoticons and Abbreviations – (PDF-51kb) — $1.00.
• FutureU's Guide to Netiquette (Internet Etiquette) – (PDF-49kb) — $6.00.
• FutureU's Guide to Intellectual Property on the Internet – (PDF-49kb) — $6.00.
• FutureU's Guide to Copyright and Public Domain on the Internet – (PDF-32kb) — $6.00.

Software Comparison Reports — $

• Comparative Features Analysis of Leading Course Management Software — $
  
• Comparative Features Analysis of Leading Collaboration Software — $
  

Why go virtual?

• E-Business: What is it? (PDF-47kb) — Free
• Why Virtual Teams? (PDF-51kb) — Free
• E-Education: What is it? (PDF-49kb) — Free
• Why Invest in Adult Learning at Work? (PDF-46kb) — Free
• Why Invest in Online Learning? (PDF-46kb) — Free
• Is Your Organization Ready for Online Learning? (PDF-52kb) — Free

Theories and Models that Influence Our Online Instructional Design

• Applying the Adult Learning Model to Online Learning (PDF-37kb) — Free
• Andragogy versus Pedagogy (PDF-26kb) — Free
• Traditional versus Modern Instructional Design (PDF-28kb) — Free
• Active Learning (PDF-26kb) — Free
• Experiential Learning (PDF-32kb) — Free
• Transformative Learning (PDF-28kb) — Free
• Experience and Education, a Quote from Dewey (PDF-29kb) — Free

Aids in Designing and Building an Online Course

• Instructional Design for Online Learning (PDF-309kb) — Free
• Creating the Container: Organizing Your Course Web Site (PDF-50kb) — Free
• When Technology Fizzles: Look to the Human Factor (PDF-19kb) — Free
• When to Go Synchronous (PDF-23kb) — Free