The Company

Remote-Learner.net has been creating training, development and educational technology projects for our customers since 1982. We are a learning company providing technology services, and not the other way around. Our customers include small and large business organizations, governmental entities, school districts and higher education. We understand budget constraints, quality assurance and project deadlines and strive to give each customer exemplary service.

Our data centers, located in Newark Delaware and Overland Park Kansas, provide 24/7/365 availability to our hosted clients. Redundant Tier 1 support with high speed connections ensure the student population can always access their online courses with a fast and reliable service. We provide core developer level support for Moodle and have award winning trainers on staff. For organizations needing instructional design support we have a team of courseware developers that can turn ideas or any syllabus into a quality online course with fast turnaround time.

Remote-Learner.net has five key divisions:(PDF faq sheets)

• Hosting and Support
• Training
• Core Development
• Instructional Design
• Strategic Organizational Development Planning

Most of our staff have advanced degrees in education and educational technology. Remote-Learner.net currently has approximately 35 full and part time staff members and is looking for qualified new Team members in all areas. Remote-Learner.net is an official Moodle Partner company, a group of about 40 companies worldwide providing authorized Moodle services.

A major benefit of doing business with a Moodle Partner company is the increased access to the core development team. Remote Learner.net has a close relationship with the core development team and can have critical code issues escalated with the core team at Moodle.com. Our Chief Technology Officer in fact is a Moodle core team developer.

Our Leadership Team

Bryan Williams, our CEO and founder started Remote-Learner.net (formerly Integrated Training Solutions) in 1982. The company has been in business providing educational technology services in about every medium in use over the past 30+ years. As educational technology evolved so has the mission of the company. Bryan holds several copyrights for training programs produced, including OSHA MasterReporter used by small and medium sized organizations for EHS compliance. Bryan has produced several documentaries including Mending Shattered Dreams, aired on PBS, an educational program for families with members suffering with schizophrenia. Before blogs became available he created Personal Insight Journal, a desktop application for Windows and Macintosh users.

Mike Churchward, our President and Chief Technology Officer, has a BA Major in Computer Science with a Minor in Business Studies. He has been developing learning technologies for over twenty years. Mike began his career developing training simulators for the aerospace industry then moved on to CBT during the new media revolution. As the web developed, much of his development moved to that platform. Mike has been a Moodle core developer for the past six years and founded Open Knowledge Technologies, the Canadian Moodle partner company acquired by Remote-Learner in 2008.

Jonathan Moore, our Vice President has a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology and is a certified Project+ project manager. Jonathan formerly served as the Director of Technology for Winfield Kansas Public Schools for almost ten years. He has developed a broad set of educational technology and project management skills over the course of his career. Jonathan has worked as a full time developer and has studied computer science since 1993, bringing a strong skillset to meet the challenges of our clients developmental needs.

Jason Cole, Ph.D, our Chief Learning Officer has had extensive experience in instructional systems design and implementation of large scale educational technology projects. Dr. Cole was tapped by Open University UK in 2005 to assist OU with its transition from a homegrown LMS to Moodle. Over the ensuing 2 years he successfully architected a system that currently supports over 225,000 student users with multiple enrollments; this installation is the largest online school known to exist worldwide. Jason is the author of Using Moodle (c2006 & 2007) published by O'Reilly Community Press, and has been the organizer of several successful Moodle Conferences in the US and UK.

Michelle Moore, our Director of Training, has a Master's degree in instructional technology and taught secondary school for 10 years in the Winfield Kansas school district. Michelle has been recognized each year since 2005 at NECC, the national K-12 conference put on by ISTE, as Best of The Best Presenters. She has trained thousands of teachers and business trainer how to use Moodle over the past 6 years.