Biographies

William Horton
President, William Horton Consulting, Inc.

William Horton has been designing technology-based training since 1971 when, as an undergraduate, he designed a network-based course for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Engineering Study.

William is an internationally sought-after speaker and instructor. He has delivered presentations to the Distance Learning Conference in Madison, the Human Resources Association National Congress in São Paulo, the Information Technology Training Association conference in Barcelona, the Knowledge Management Seminarium in Stockholm, the Institute for Information Industry in Taipei, and the Asian Development Bank in Manila and Tokyo .

He is a registered Professional Engineer, an MIT graduate, and Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. He is a recipient of ACM's Rigo Award for contributions to software documentation, IEEE's Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for contributions to engineering communications, and the IF Award ( Germany ) for industrial design. He recently served on ASTD's eCC (E-learning Courseware Certification) Committee, which drafted quality standards for evaluating e-learning courses.

William Horton is a prolific author. His books include E-learning by Design, Designing and Writing Online Documentation, Leading E-learning, Evaluating E-learning, Using E-learning, and Secrets of User-Seductive Documents. He is co-author of E-learning Tools and Technologies (with his wife Kit), Getting Started in Online Learning, and The Web Page Design Cookbook.

William and his wife Kit, the other half of William Horton Consulting, live in downtown Boulder, Colorado, just five blocks east of the Rocky Mountains, in a hundred-year old house they are lovingly restoring. The kitchen, which he and Kit redesigned themselves, was featured in the April 1999 and September 2000 issues of Better Homes and Gardens .

Publicity photos of Bill.

Katherine Horton
VP of Business and Technology
William Horton Consulting, Inc.

Katherine Horton (Kit for short) is the other half of William Horton Consulting. She runs the day to day business while ensuring William Horton Consulting remains current with the latest electronic communications technologies. She is co-author of E-learning Tools and Technology with her husband William. Katherine was the Program Advisory Chair for ASTD's TechKnowledge 2005 conference.

Katherine is also a:

• Visual designer. Kit designs icons, screen layouts, publication designs, business illustrations, and technical graphics. She illustrated and did the visual design for William Horton's last five books, two of which won international level awards.
• Multimedia hacker. Kit designs animation sequences and interactive learning games.
• Lecturer. Kit is a frequent speaker at international training and e-learning conferences, as well as conducting workshops worldwide.
• Website designer. In addition to being the Webmaster for the horton.com and designingWBT.com sites, Kit has designed Websites for several design-conscious architectural and construction firms.
• Artist. In a former life, Katherine was an award-winning jeweler, working in gold, niobium, tantalum, and gemstones. With William, she has designed furniture and cabinetry, which was featured in the April 1999 and September 2000 issues of Better Homes and Gardens.

Publicity photos of Kit.