Essential Education Corporation is a primary provider of e-technology and integrated learning solutions for adult learners in workforce development, job training, literacy and basic skills education, and GED programs. We serve students, teachers, schools, workforce development and job training programs, community and corrections programs, and corporations large and small. We're a privately held firm headquartered in Oregon; our customers are global.

Essential Ed's solutions are multifaceted, measurable, meaningful and relevant. We proffer student-centric products and programs that have evolved over our years of research and service to Adult Learners. As a result, we're meeting the overwhelming challenges faced by adult learners, while meeting the demands of professionals, their schedules and budgets - whether facing workforce skills shortages or the broader challenge of lifelong learning.

Our tested products and programs are affordable, scaleable, flexible and measurable. With our student-centric courseware and unrivaled support, we stand the test against the most worthy of our competitors. Our difference is our commitment to the learner, the lifelong learning experience.

The Essential Ed Division provides robust and flexible learning solutions for workforce development, training, or for basic skills, GED and literacy education. Essential Ed's products, ongoing consultation, support and services further meet the unique needs of community-based education or training guided by nonprofit and not-for-profit government agencies. Essential Ed solutions provide learning, management and assessment tools critical for adult learners-proving just as essential to program strategy, business and organizational objectives.

The passGED.com Division is an online learning community specifically for adult learners and their support networks. Along with affordable educational products and programs, PassGED provides a plethora of free services for learners. These services include educational materials, educational and peer support, and resources for career, continuing education and personal development.

Our Essential Vision is to join corporations, communities and learners to:

Reinvent education for the bottom 30% of the learning curve, creating a dramatically better way to educate learning-challenged students and workers, and to foster learning successes.

Offer delivery systems so that all people who desire it can receive a high-quality basic education, learn, master skills and contribute because they are self-sufficient.

Develop community and organization networks, corporate and community partnerships that support, deliver and sustain career education experiences that teach people to think critically and creatively about the words, ideas and experiences they encounter in our society.

Execute affordable, accessible and exceptional education online opportunities for career education and distance education programs.

CEO Michael Ormsby is our thought leader and industry expert, with expertise in best-practice education, curriculum development and e-learning solutions. He oversees tech development, program management and delivery. He also manages our design team.

Our team of instructional designers, flash developers, writers and programmers focus on research and courseware development, implementation and assessment of best-practice learning solutions and support for those with educational challenges.

Michael Ormsby is an industry expert in the development and application of e-learning solutions for adult learners and the systems that deliver them. He's available as an industry resource, thought leader or to offer comments, reflections or expertise on student-centric solutions that work, and on the traditional models that fail learners with educational challenges, gaps, and setbacks.

Michael's expertise has been proven in strategic planning, business development, product design and execution with e-learn and throughout two successful careers in business and education. He possesses broad expertise and experience within distance learning, education and technology industries.

However, his insightful expertise provides thoughtful focus on the challenges of the Adult Learner, and the systems changes needed to execute successful outcomes for even the most educationally-challenged. In addition, Michael has a deep empathy and understanding of his primary audience-the Adult Learner-and the learning experiences that teach, motivate and reward them.

Under Michael's leadership, e-learn has evolved from a small learning portal to a learning community, embracing thousands of adult learners and their support systems, including teachers, administrators, families, corporations and communities. With his direction, the Company has grown from a small start-up offering one product into a full-fledged e-learning solutions provider with two divisions that provide:

• Educational material
• Testing solutions
• Learning management and assessment tools
• Relevant, student-focused instructional courseware addressing all aspects of basic skills, essential literacy and GED preparation
• Complete educational programs for self-guided study and for multiple user educational and workforce development/job training and readiness programs.