Dr. Randy Gunter is founder, Chairman, and Chief Visionary Officer of 21st Century Learning Solutions, Inc. Dr. Gunter has a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from Mississippi State University and is a retired Air Force instructor pilot with over 4,000 hours of flying time having spent most of his career in Air Force Education and Training Command. Dr. Gunter is an experienced course developer and instructional designer and has developed numerous professional development/training solutions for the United States Air Force, over 20 air/army forces in Latin America and Europe, defense contractors, universities, corporations, and school districts.
He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses (traditional and online) in instructional design, educational technology, and educational research at the university level and has more than 35 years experience in education and training. He has developed company-owned and taught online graduate courses taken by over 12,000 in-service teachers and over 500 university faculty from across the United States. Dr. Gunter has managed the development of more than 300 online graduate (Masters and Doctoral level) and undergraduate courses for university clients in mathematics, computer science, business administration, public health, public administration, nursing, entrepreneurship, aviation, conservation, homeland security, criminal justice, research, education, educational technology, and engineering. Clients include Laureate Education, Inc. (with over 550,000 students worldwide), National Technological University (NTU), Walden University, University of Central Florida, and many other institutions of higher education.
A nationally recognized author in the field of educational technology, Dr. Gunter has co–authored twelve educational textbooks used by college and university students and faculty from across the United States and Canada. His extensively Web–enhanced textbooks include Teachers Discovering Computers (TDC) – Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom, Sixth Edition and Teachers Discovering and Integrating Microsoft Office, 2nd Edition. Over 300,000 pre-service and in-service teachers have taken classes using the TDC textbook since first published in 1999 by Cengage Learning.
Dr. Gunter’s research agenda includes researching the math and science crisis and finding solutions to help ease its impact on America’s competitiveness. He is an active member of the Technology Association of America’s (formally AeA) Florida Council Executive Committee and the association’s Florida Education Consortium to improve math and science education. In addition to his textbooks, Dr. Gunter has published dozens of journal articles and has presented at or given keynote addresses at over 50 national/international conferences and professional meetings.