About the First Ultimate Global University (FUGU)

Learn What You Want, When You Want, Where You Want

FUGU.com was created to be a new type of University, one designed from the ground-up with the priority on the student experience. The lessons are dynamic and engaging, they feature top experts, and they focus on the topics you care about. You'll find FUGU lessons to be long form, interactive and in-depth. Our goal is to make you the best you can be at your chosen activities.

This is what we call Immersive Education. It is symbolized by our mascot and icon, the fugu. A delicacy for those in the know but deadly for those without the proper knowledge!

As in traditional universities, FUGU is organized into tracks, subjects, courses and lessons. The tracks include Sports & Games, Arts & Entertainment, Self-Improvement and Business. Each lesson incorporates high-quality video, informational slides, moderated forums, student chat, print-outs, and more to give you a one-of-a-kind learning experience. You can even test, get credit hours and get certified in your topic. There are quite a few free lessons and many others available for a small fee. All of the courses and lessons are 100% guaranteed. You own your lessons and can watch them as many times as you wish.

Fee free to contact us any time and we welcome your feedback and suggestions.

As we like to say at FUGU, there is nothing more enjoyable and valuable than to Learn Life!

Learn Life

Working with partners such as Gracie University, ACT Cert, American OLC, StrongFirst and many others, FUGU has created an educational model by which our partner focuses on the information to be delivered and FUGU focuses on everything else. FUGU is a full-service system delivering high-impact learning to highly targeted user bases when, where and how they want.

As in traditional universities, FUGU sites are organized into tracks, subjects, courses and lessons. The learning hierarchy allows students to drill down to specific areas of interest. Each lesson within a course incorporates high-quality video, informational slides, moderated forums, student chat, workbooks, and more to give a one-of-a-kind learning experience. Many courses include tests, both dynamic and evaluated, where students get credit hours, rank advancement, receive rewards and get certified in the topic. Curriculum can be free, fee-based, gifted or accessed via subscription. The student owns their material and can view each lesson as many times as they wish.

When all packaged into the FUGU platform it becomes truly Immersive Education. This is symbolized by our mascot and icon, the fugu. A delicacy for those in the know but potentially deadly for those without the proper knowledge!

FUGU sites are where students Learn Life.

Contact us any time – we welcome your feedback and suggestions.

We're Always looking for Top Talent

If you're looking for an exciting career with a dynamic, growing company, we'd like to hear from you.

FUGU has a particular need for the following specialties, both full-time and contract:

Sales Specialists and Account Managers: If you live for revenue generation and have experience selling into Fortune 1000 companies then this may be a position for you.

Programmers:
SQL and .NET programmers who write clean, solid code and like to work in a fast-paced, creative environment.

Producers / Writers:
Creative individuals who can think on their feet and have experience pulling together complex productions. Professional presentation and excellent communication skills required.

Designers:
Graphic artists who can illustrate in the style of newspaper and news weekly support graphics and charts.

An Unmatched Educational System

Below are a sampling of the FUGU platform benefits and features:

• Secure Tier-One Datacenter Hosting: Sites are hosted with one of the World’s top providers ensuring the content is always up and performance is optimal.
• Distributed Global Video Network: Smooth streaming, high quality video to all locations.
• Optimized Ingestion of User Videos: Simplified interface and convenient, secure upload of user videos for video based tests and professional review.
• Database Driven Content: Creates a custom experience for each user and role.
• Embedded Payment Gateway and Processing: Bulk rates and efficiencies with top line services including Authorize.net and PayPal.
• Analytics Integration: Detailed tracking of site level usage and demographics.

• All Device Access: Students can access their material in a device-optimized format from PCs, tablets and mobile devices.
• Transaction Management: Fully integrated secure cart system enables a seamless purchase process.
• Dynamic Content Management: Fast implementation of new content and courses.
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Components: Students interact with others, track progress and take notes in real-time while viewing their lessons.
• Registration: Sites are membership based allowing the content can be customized to each user and all use can be tracked and reported.
• Roles: The system automatically recognizes each user’s role and delivers a role-based set of tools, content and reports.
• Partner Brand Integration: Partners and sponsors have extensive brand exposure throughout the site and lessons.
• Customizability: The platform is designed to be customized to the unique needs of each partner.
• Curriculum Access Options: Courses and lessons can be free and open, free and registration, subscription and fee-based, allowing access rights to be customized at a granular level.
• Hierarchical System: Curriculum is layered in as it is developed following a pattern of Channel > Track > Topic > Subject > Course > Lesson > Chapter.
• SEO Optimized: The site and content is optimized for search engine recognition when appropriate.
• Security: The site uses full SSL encryption and robust firewalls preventing unauthorized access of information and content.
• Sub Domains and Shortcut Links: Quick links that take students directly to the section of interest.
• Support and Message Management: All support and feedback messages are dynamically stored, tracked, prioritized and assigned.

• Full Service: FUGU handles all elements of development and delivery including site updates, secondary content creation and publishing, and full partner, subject expert and student tech support.
• Leading Subject Experts: Lessons feature top Subject Experts in the category to guarantee the student is learning from the thought leaders.
• In-Depth Lessons: Unlike “tip” videos featured on many other websites, FUGU lessons are long-form and detail packed. They are the equivalent of taking the course within a traditional learning environment but with the benefit that the student can interactively dig deeper into those areas of most interest as well as return as many times as necessary to review the material.
• Professional Production: All video and supplementary content is professionally produced so as to deliver a top quality experience.
• One-of-a-Kind Content: Courses and lessons are unique to the site, offering information students can’t get anywhere else online.
• Broad Yet Targeted Audience: As a global solution, the curriculum reaches a broad audience but due to the exactness of the topics it also reaches a highly targeted audience.
• Destination: FUGU sites create a go-to online destination for the topic.

• Testing: Multiple testing formats including dynamically graded, video based, and manually reviewed to validate student retention of knowledge.
• Certification: Automated, printable certifications based on completion of courses and successful passing of required tests.
• Affiliate Management: Ability to manage affiliates including information and listings and to sub-assign students.
• Professional Review: Students can submit videos to have them evaluated by remote Instructors.
• Forums: Private and role specific forums in both moderated and student direct formats give users the ability to interact directly with the experts.
• Batch Purchases: Users can purchase courses and lessons in batches to distribute to others. For instance a Human Resources Director can purchase courses for multiple employees.
• Access Codes: Courses and lessons can be assigned to users through the use of Access Codes.
• Coupons and Discounts: Coupons and Discounts can be attached to any content level and be restricted by user or number of uses.
• Feedback: Integrated feedback loops to ensure the content is meeting the needs of the student.
• Gift Certificates: The ability to gift a course or lesson to another.
• Student Ranks: The ability to assign and advance students through a ranking system.
• Progress Tracking: The system incorporates both manual and automated progress tracking and notes.
• Student Content Upload: Integrated functions for students to upload videos and other content types for review.
• Interactive Lesson Player:
  • Multi-View: Student gets a high level view of all of the lesson content from which they can then get expanded views of the most relevant section for that portion of the learning.
  • Full Screen Option: The video can be expanded to full screen.
  • Resources: Each lesson includes a list of links to associated resources.
  • Streaming Video: The primary lesson information is delivered via video.
  • Printouts: There are accompanying printouts for each lesson highlighting key points.
  • Slides: There are slides synched to the video with major bullets, graphics and animations.
  • Peer Chat: Students are able to interact with other students watching the same lesson.
  • Moderated Forum: The lessons each have an associated moderated forum so students can receive qualified answers to their questions.
  • Bookmarks: The student can set bookmarks at key sections of the lesson.
  • Notes: The student has the ability to take notes while the lesson is playing.
  • History: The student can view their history with the lesson.
  • Files: Support files of various media are linked from the primary lesson.

• Reporting: Detailed reports on all key metrics. The reports are customizable and exportable.
• Student Tracking: Administrator level tracking of student progress.
• Site Admin Tools: Top level account access giving information on all revenue and students.
• Course Admin Tools: An administrator level access with curriculum, testing, content and affiliate management tools.
• Instructor Tools: Instructors are able to log-in to access their direct students and to grade tests.
• Affiliate Tools: Tools for affiliates to manage their direct students.

Learn more about how the FUGU platform can support your goals Contact us to learn more.

Reinforce Your Personal Brand as a Topic Thought Leader

If you have an interest in offering your proprietary knowledge to a global audience in a monetized and rights secure format, you've come to the right place.

• Full Service Solution: You write the content, we worry about everything else.
• Educate, Test, Certify: Teach your students, test them in dynamic or video based formats and issue certifications.
• Build Your Personal Brand: You are the face of the content and your bio, social media, and general links are featured prominently.
• World Class Destination: Best-of-breed hosting, streaming, functionality and features. Rave reviews from students, subject experts and partners.
• Immersive Experience: Each interactive lesson features quality streaming video, slides, printouts, moderated forums, student chat and more.
• Professional Production: All of the content is produced by professional teams.
• Content Model: The FUGU content model and instructional design assistance allow for efficient structuring and optimization of the material for online delivery.
• Productize and Monetize Your Knowledge: Make your specialized knowledge a product that delivers value to your audience and creates an annuity for you.
• Private and Secure: Your content is secure and protected.
• Draw, Engage and Entangle: Build a broad yet highly targeted global audience that views your learning center as a destination and community.
• Multiple Revenue Streams: Earn revenue from subscriptions, fee-based content purchases, advertising, sponsorships, and secondary product sales.

Are you a leading Subject Expert (or know one)? Contact us to learn more about the opportunity today!