Essential Education Corporation is a primary provider of e-technology, integrated learning and online education solutions for adult learners in GED programs for workforce development, job training, literacy, basic skills, and career education. 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 distance education 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. Our difference is our commitment to the learner, the lifelong learning experience, and our affordability.

Essential Education Online programs center on adult career education and distance learning solutions.

Essential Literacy Education is a simple concept long overdue. It starts with the premise that a strong democratic society needs a literate populace and recognizes that an embarrassing number of people leave the public education system with less than functional literacy.

Essential Literacy Education is an initiative for a dramatically different learning program for the undereducated adult learner. It recreates the basic core curriculum and truly educates the adult learner in the knowledge and thinking skills they actually need to be successful, and it does this by giving students a learning experience that is interesting, exciting and intrinsically rewarding. Essential Literacy Education is reinventing the way people are being educated.

Essential Ed GED programs are a powerful solution to a demanding task. For the director and teacher of a career education project it is a complete educational program that is flexible enough for all learners. Every base is covered, from assessment, management and instruction. For the adult learner, it is an extraordinary new way to learn and be successful. The adult learner gets the skills and knowledge they need to obtain their GED certificate, and most important, they get the essential literacy they need to be a success in their lives. No small thing.

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, distance education, career education, curriculum development and e-learning solutions. He oversees tech development, education online, 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 also serves as Essential Ed's primary consultant for enterprise, nonprofit and business learning communities. But at the end of the day, you'll find Michael answering emails from adult learners, and often coaching or tutoring them toward their goals.