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| GEENIUS integrates social networking, knowledge management, learning, collaborative experiences and a marketplace to provide a unique knowledge networking platform. |
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| A new category of Internet business that connects knowledge producers and consumers through a global knowledge network. |
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| Organizations will create a sustainable competitive advantage through their use of knowledge networks. |
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| Our vision for 21st century learning transforms mass production assembly line style of teaching to an individualized learning that encourages innovation and creativity. |
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Our Mission is to fuel the creative economy by creating global knowledge networks for knowledge entrepreneurs, enterprise and education customers.
GEENIUS Knowledge Networking
- Create mission-driven communities
- Collaborate to capture, refine, share and transfer knowledge
- Publish knowledge within and across communities
- Create "community brilliance" through best practice capture, sharing and transfer
- Choreograph online experiences to engage users in defined processes
- Apply patented knowledge transfer process to ensure 90+% long-term knowledge retention
Social vs Knowledge Networking
Today’s social network phenomena had its start with college students. GEENIUS’ knowledge networking goes well beyond the simple sharing of information, GEENIUS communities are designed to create, share, and transfer knowledge. Our product suite implements a highly differentiated knowledge transfer process that incorporates advanced principles from accelerated learning, collaborative learning and, education to create learning experiences that result in long term retention of the essential knowledge in any subject area.
- Interaction around the sharing of
- Photos
- Latest personal news
- Strong connections based on relationships
- Feel good communities
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- Create mission-driven communities
- Collaborate to capture, refine, share and transfer knowledge
- Publish knowledge within and across communities
- Create "community brilliance" through best practice capture, sharing and transfer
- Choreograph online experiences to engage users in defined processes
- Apply patented knowledge transfer process to ensure 90+% long-term knowledge retention
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Knowledge Transfer
The GEENIUS breakthrough learning process delivers a massive increase in knowledge retention well beyond the completion of the training. The key difference is GEENIUS' focus on learning "outcomes," long-term retention, and subsequent application of knowledge - rather than on learning "events". Designed by experienced educators, GEENIUS' processes have been successfully demonstrated in both academic and commercial settings.
 The GEENIUS learning process results in 100 to 800% increase in retained knowledge over scenarios where the identical content is delivered by other technology-based training systems.
How do we do it?
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Our patented system monitors the learner's progress and adaptively tailors a learning process that is unique to each learner.
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Accountability, coaching, mentoring and collaboration are integrated to create a rich learning experience for the student.
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Our course authoring tools embody instructional design best practices, making it easy to develop effective and exciting learning experiences. These instructional design practices will improve your existing courses, when they are enhanced to support the GEENIUS learning models.
GeeniusXperiences
A GeeniusXperience is a self-contained sequence of activities that a user engages in to achieve a desired outcome. A GeeniusXperience allows self-direction and flexibility while imposing process sequencing when it’s needed. A typical GeeniusXperience will include tasks such as study a lesson, read some articles, write a report, participate in a discussion, take a quiz, or do an assignment. Participants function in different roles, where some roles have responsibility for facilitation, coaching and mentoring.
As a user engages in a GeeniusXperience they are directed through their activities as well as having access to guidance as needed.
GEENIUS Co-Founders
 Tom Rudmik, Co-Founder, CEO
Tom Rudmik brings a blend of visionary leadership and pragmatic business experience to GEENIUS.
Tom is also the founder of Master’s Academy and College, a K-12, R&D school located in Calgary, Canada. Master’s vision is to produce “Profound Learning”, a 21st century learning model that elevates student learning to heights not achievable using the traditional industrial age assembly line approach, with the signature being innovation and creativity. Today Master’s is one of the highest performing schools in the province of Alberta.
In 2000, Tom launched the development of the GEENIUS platform with the express intent of developing breakthrough technologies to massively enhance human performance in learning. Our patented solution, through independent studies, has proven to elevate long-term knowledge retention to over 90+% versus the typical 5-10%.
Tom has presented at numerous conferences on 21st Century Learning and authored the book " Seeing the Invisible, Doing the Impossible, ... unlocking the entrepreneurial visionary spirit within everyone".
 Andy Rudmik Ph.D, Co-Founder, CTO, President
Dr. Andy Rudmik's strengths are envisioning and planning for the future to have systems in place when the market timing is right for those systems. This ability to see the future has put GEENIUS in the forefront of the product innovation curve.
Previously, at Modus Operandi (MO), a boutique software house, Andy was the Sr VP/Chief Scientist and Principal Investigator on a number of state-of-the-art research projects with various Government Laboratories. His research interests included distributed systems, system modeling and model-based software development. Andy was responsible for acquiring commercial business with Florida Power and Light in two highly competitive scenarios. As a result of his efforts, MO landed two substantial contracts. The first project was a distributed power generation management system and the second, a web-based load shedding system.
GEENIUS Entrepreneur connects knowledge producers with knowledge consumers through a global knowledge network. GEENIUS provides a turnkey Internet infrastructure (authoring, publishing, community, marketplace, advertising, and support) allowing entrepreneurs to launch their own Internet knowledge-based business.
Wealth Creation Opportunity
“… the Web is now the foundation for new dynamic forms of community and the creative expression. Throw in a healthy does of grassroots entrepreneurship and you have a potent recipe for economic revolution – a revolution that affects not just the obvious targets such as media, entertainment and software, but is increasingly sweeping across all industries and sectors.” Wikinomics- Tapscott and WIlliams 2007
 Thousands of entrepreneurial subject area experts, called Geenius Entrepreneurs, use GEENIUS to convert their knowledge into high valued learning content, mentoring and coaching. GEENIUS provides the transactional marketplace, similar to Amazon or eBay, where GEs turn their expertise and experience into wealth.
- A GEENIUS Entrepreneur (GE) establishes a subject area community, where subject matter experts publish high value content.
- People access the subject area community through the GEENIUS portal.
- People become members of communities and participate in value transactions – $$$ for knowledge + mentoring.
- The GE creates revenue through subscriptions, direct sales, the affiliate program and advertising.
- GEENIUS receives its income through a revenue share model with the GE and its partner network.
Knowledge Networking
 The GEENIUS Knowledge Network is a new category of Internet business that connects knowledge producers, with knowledge consumers, through a global knowledge network. GEENIUS
provides a turnkey Internet infrastructure (authoring, publishing and community) to the entrepreneur to launch their own Internet knowledge-based business.
The social network phenomena over the past few years has demonstrated the power of networking. The GEENIUS knowledge network brings people together around thousands of subject areas. Experts, authors, and really anybody passionate about knowledge, can become GEENIUS entrepreneurs and generate significant income by publishing high valued digital content into GEENIUS’ global knowledge network. Everyone else can use GEENIUS to know more, be more and do more while sharing their interests, expertise, passions and experiences with new friends and communities.
What GEENIUS Provides the Entrepreneur
GEENIUS provides the complete business infrastructure for GEENIUS Entrepreneurs (GEs) to start their own online business. GEENIUS provides: 
- online subject area communities operated whose mission is to grow the number of online knowledge stores developing and selling online learning experiences and other digital content,
- GE owned online store within the subject area communities,
- collaborative content creation capability (open or closed),
- online course and digital content publishing,
- marketplace for content and other products or services,
- world-wide marketing through the GEENIUS network of GE and community participants,and
- business accounting to help track and manage revenue generated through GEENIUS.
GEENIUS Enterprise empowers organizations to create a sustainable hyper-competitive advantage using knowledge networks that span employees, customers, vendors, and business partners. These knowledge networks become the drivers of business process and product innovation
Knowledge Maturity
 Community-based knowledge capture and sharing is the foundation for GEENIUS knowledge networking. At the core of GEENIUS communities is a flexible model of content maturity, collaborative content authoring, and content templating.
GEENIUS provides several different ways to share Knowledge. Within a community, knowledge in the form of News, Blogs, Articles, Albums, and Websites can be shared among the community members. As knowledge matures (e.g. best practices are captured, reviewed and accepted by members) then the knowledge can be converted into Knowledge Objects (e.g. lessons) that can then be used to transfer the knowledge to other members of the community. Several smaller knowledge objects can be aggregated to form learning objects or courses. Course and other content can be aggregated to create GeeniusXperiences that provide an orchestrated user experience designed to achieve well defined outcomes
GEENIUS supports cross-community knowledge sharing where knowledge objects in one community can be published into other communities, while maintaining the original ownership and authoring rights.
Organizational Brilliance
 Knowledge networks empower people to capture, refine, share, and transfer knowledge. Organizational Brilliance™ is created when knowledge creation is coupled with innovation resulting in business breakthroughs and further creation and use of new knowledge.
Organizations that exhibit brilliance stand out because of their thought leadership and their ability to innovate faster then their competitors. Within these organizations, we see people learning from each other, innovation happening as people connect different bodies of knowledge, which in turn spurs greater passion for learning and innovation.
As knowledge capture, refinement, sharing, and transfer (learning) happens in a synergistic manner, new knowledge and innovation emerges resulting in what we call organizational brilliance. Organizations that can sustain this cycle of learning and innovation will command a hyper-competitive advantage keeping them ahead of their competitors.
GEENIUS Education enables educators to prepare students for the 21st century, by creating the conditions for “Future Ready” skills, namely innovation and creativity. By individualizing the learning process, and with time-compression of delivering core curriculum, time will be freed up for authentic learning experiences.
Education Vision
 To prepare students for the 21st century, education must be more intentional in creating the conditions for “Future Ready” skills, namely innovation and creativity. By individualizing the learning process, and with time compression core curriculum delivery, time will be freed up for authentic learning experiences. With this time compression, clear focus can be given to the development of innovation and creativity, which are essential ingredients for the creative economy.
Education needs to respond to the dramatic changes that have occurred over the past 10-15 years. Leading educational institutions have taken on the challenge of preparing students for the 21st century. The founders of GEENIUS, both educators, envision the following:
- Students are knowledge workers and knowledge creators.
- Students create learning objects for other students.
- Students become futurists and designers of the future - design-based learning.
- Educators need to focus on “Future Ready” competencies.
- Programs need to focus on learning/design experiences.
- By using GEENIUS, time compression becomes possible, in other words the time to deliver the knowledge base within the curriculum can be reduced.
- Near 100% knowledge transfer of the essential knowledge is possible using GEENIUS' patented Adaptive Knowledge Retention (AKR) system.
- Instructors truly become coaches and mentors.
- The student becomes the teacher.
- Shift towards mass customization of education versus the industrial-age factory model of mass production.
- Over time best practice capture and transfer will lead to a shift in thinking and behavior of the instructors.
Learning Models
The GEENIUS platform enables instructors to create rich GeeniusXperiences by drawing upon a repository of best practices and templates supporting the three learning models below. Incorporated into these models are the FUTURE READY skills needed for the 21st century.
 Students within the Inquiry-Problem-Based Learning context, engage with learning by resolving a problem requiring them to research what is already known.
Students within the Quality Learning context, engage with quality tools and processes to design solutions that improves the performance of the current system. The starting point is the current condition or the “HERE”. |
 Students within the Design-Based Learning context become designers of the future by envisioning the future first, which creates tension between the “THERE” and the “HERE” that drives the design process. Creative tension is the driving force for DBL.
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Geenius Learning Experiences
A student begins their learning journey on the left and progress through various paths until they have completed the required activities. A coach guides the student through their activities providing feedback and encouragement as they progress. Learning is student-directed; students make decisions and may select different paths to attain the desired outcomes.
A well-designed learning experience will incorporate the following learning elements:
- Motivators create a mindset and desire for the student to accomplish the desired experience outcomes.
- Coaching to steer students through their learning activities.
- Mentoring to help students through areas where they lack knowledge or understanding.
- Reinforce the essential knowledge to ground the student in the subject fundamentals.
- A balance of rigor and relevance to help the student see how the knowledge can be applied in real world scenarios.
- Celebration and sharing of successes.
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