Our products and services focus on the undereducated adult learner, the 40 million adults who do not have a high school diploma. We believe that an educational program for the high school dropout has to break new ground.

A recent study showed most students drop out of high school because classes are boring. What's more revealing is this finding: only one third of the dropouts were academically challenged and were failing in school. The majority of high school dropouts were C or better students-more than capable of completing their high school education.

Interest and relevance . these are the missing pieces in most adult educational programs. Think how different an adult education program would be if it had to compete in the marketplace alongside video games, shopping malls, workplace and family demands and everything else that wrestles for the attention of uneducated or undereducated adults. We thought about that, and designed learning programs that are interesting and relevant. We know that if your adult education program isn't intrinsically interesting and dynamically retentive, it won't succeed on any level. So we met that challenge, and created an appealing, effective adult learning experience.

Our dynamic instructional design elements are modeled on video games and developed with Macromedia Flash. Courseware includes contemporary graphics, narrative and display, coupled with the continual feedback that adult learners need. Our adult education courseware is also rich with meaningful cinematic characterization, humor and plot, giving students a lively learning environment that's relevant to their education, careers and life. For the student, taking an Essential Ed GED continuing education online course isn't like going to class, it's like going to the movies. DEMO

Instead of the passive learning found in many computer e-learning programs, Essential Ed students actually get into the heads of other people as they learn and make sense of the material. They are cognitively engaged as they watch and listen to real students solving real GED questions. Critical thinking and skills application are reinforced with virtual quizzes and step-by-step guidance in problem solving from a virtual instructor.

The result? Students learn through understanding and application, not memorization. Students learn better and remember more.

Essential Literacy Education focuses on what people actually need for educational, work and life success. We reinvented the core curriculum, designing a GED instructional program that's much more than basic skills or the acquisition of knowledge and facts. Continual lively feedback and interesting audio/visual element keeps learners intrigued, engaged and moving forward.

Essential Ed courseware and programs are dynamically charged with all the essential components, educational technology that will help adult learners really learn . motivation included.

• Easy to launch, easy to use, a cinch to manage
• Works from virtually any computer
• Interesting, intriguing and relevant instruction
• Student-centered and self-paced
• Actively engages adult learners, and supports them from start to finish
• Student tracking and diagnostics
• Blueprinted on guidelines of the American Council on Education
• Flexible, robust and affordable - a complete stand-alone program or supplement