Ken Reimer
During the last ten years, Ken has applied his efforts to the challenge of creating a company (LearnStream), building a team, and establishing a world-class reputation for excellence in innovative learning solutions. LearnStream's learning solutions have improved employee knowledge, skills, and on-the-job performance for the Royal Bank, World Bank, the World Health Organization, SkillSoft, McCain Foods, and others.
In 2005 Ken Reimer sold his majority interest in LearnStream to Provinent (now branded as Vitesse Learning), with offices in Toronto, New Jersey, and San Francisco. He is now directing the Centre for Enhanced Teaching and Learning at the University of New Brunswick, and is providing consulting services through YLEARN Corp. His current consulting projects involve major organizations in North America and Europe.
Based in Fredericton, Ken is proud to be part of the New Brunswick e-learning community (LearnNB). This regional hotbed of innovation boasts over a dozen e-learning companies, and hundreds of e-learning designers and developers. Recently he founded UNB Online, a major online learning initiative at UNB.
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Milestones
Dec 2008:
UNB Online is launched, a new initiative to expand online learning offered from UNB, both credit and non-credit. UNB Online website...
May 2007:
Ken presents a paper on learning principles behind the creating of engineering related learning objects at the eLearning-Africa conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya.
April 2006:
Ken is pleased to announce a partnership with the marketing consulting firm Verus Consulting.
November 2005:
Ken is appointed to head up the new Centre for Enhanced Teaching and Learning at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
March 2005:
LearnStream, the company founded by Ken in 1998, is acquired by Provinent Corp, a Toronto-based e-learning firm. Read news article ...
May 2000:
The Canadian New Media Awards recognizes Ken for his lifetime achievement.
See grainy over-exposed photo...
March 1998 :
Ken founds LearnStream through a leveraged management buyout, with $900,000 financing from the Business Development Bank (BDC). |