Catalog

Catalogs

Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Digital Photography	1.00	This course covers a basic understanding of digital photography, the techniques that can be used to make photos better, and the different uses for cameras.
Disaster Preparedness	2.00	In 2007, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park was faced with the oncoming storm of a massive wildfire. Lessons learned from this and other emergency situations have been used to create a learning module designed to help you be prepared for similar crises. This course help you identify the components of a disaster and understand what actions should be taken. A significant part of the instruction covers methods for averting disaster and ways to communicate during an event.
Discuss Results: Testing Hypotheses	1.00	Lesson seven of ten. You have graphs and statistical tests summarizing your results, but how does this help you test your hypotheses? Listen to a research team discuss whether they can reject one or more working hypotheses based on their results. Learn how the team distinguishes between causation and correlation in applying critical thinking skills to decide whether their measurements were good enough to really be a test of the hypotheses.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training	1.00	Diversity, Equity and Inclusion have become an important part of creating a culture that thrives on leveraging differences. The goal is to learn: Definitions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Important to Everyone? Our Identity and Where it Comes From Bias and The Impact to Others Next Steps to Take
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training (Corrections)	1.00	Diversity, Equity and Inclusion have become an important part of creating a culture that thrives on leveraging differences. The goal is to learn: Definitions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Important to Everyone? Our Identity and Where it Comes From Bias and The Impact to Others Next Steps to Take
Domestic Abuse	2.00	Domestic Violence, or Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), is defined as physical abuse or aggression that occurs in a romantic relationship. “Intimate partner” refers to current and former spouses and dating partners. This course will discuss the causes of domestic abuse, explain what characteristics to look for when identifying domestic abuse, determine appropriate ways to address abuse in your relationship or with a loved one, suggest ways to prevent abuse, and provide resources for further assistance with domestic abuse.
Down Syndrome	0.50	This course will help you understand the unique characteristics that children with Down syndrome possess and the challenges that they face. It will provide you with knowledge on how to create the best learning environment possible to meet their needs by giving you specific ways to plan your curriculum and ways in which you can encourage communication. You will feel prepared to make accommodations to welcome children with Down syndrome into your classroom.
Draft Presentation: Storyboard of Results	1.00	Your boss has asked you to present the results of your behavioral inquiry at a staff meeting. How do you tell the story of your project, providing enough detail so they will understand, but not too much so they will be able to focus on how this relates to the decision at hand? Listen to a research team present their draft presentation and offer suggestions about how this could be improved to enhance communication. Pick up some creative tips and offer a few of your own.
Draft Publication: Writing for Peer Review	1.00	Ready to publish the results of your behavioral inquiry? Listen to the experiences of a research team that takes the outline from a presentation and turns it into a manuscript for peer review. Learn about the checklist of do's and don'ts that editors and reviewers will look for in evaluating your manuscript. Share creative tips for getting past writer's block.
Driving Safety Off-Road Vehicles	1.50	This course teaches participants that defensive driving applies not only to licensed vehicles such as cars and trucks, but also to unlicensed vehicles such as golf carts and gators. Participants will learn guidelines for use of service carts, proper driving and operating procedures, how to carry loads, and precautions to take for pedestrians and driving at night.
Drug-Free Workplace	0.50	This course covers the impact of substance abuse in the workplace, signs and symptoms of substance abuse, and how substance abuse affects those around you. After introducing substance abuse and its warning signs, you will learn about treatment and assistance options for employees, and what will remain confidential and what will not.
Dyslexia	1.00	This course will provide you with an overview of dyslexia to help you understand what it is all about, the challenges a student with dyslexia faces, and the best ways in which teachers can effectively support students with this disability.
E-Mail Etiquette: Composing Online Correspondence	1.50	It’s important for e-mail messages to be written well because they can determine your company’s success or failure. A poorly written e-mail message could give co-workers and management a bad impression of your own work habits. An effectively written e-mail message, however, is easy to understand, encourages action, and gives others a good impression of your overall job performance.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Basics	1.00	E-commerce has become one of the most effective ways of doing business. Most companies conduct some of their communications online, so it is important for their employees to write effective electronic mail, or e-mail, messages. E-mail is the exchange of text messages by using computers. To send e-mail messages, users need to type in the address of the person to whom they want to send the message, write the message, and click "Send."
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Effectiveness	0.50	In this unit, you will learn the importance of considering the recipient before writing an e-mail; the factors to be considered before writing a message, such as your relationship with the recipient, the subject, and the purpose of writing the message; and how to effectively compose messages, anticipating negative recipient reactions such as skepticism and apathy. Finally, you will learn about managing your e-mail, checking your e-mail, handling large volumes of e-mail, helping others manage their e-mail volume, and setting the e-mail program to respond automatically.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Features and Security	0.50	In this unit, you will learn about the features of e-mail programs. You will learn about the importance of attachments and identified the guidelines for attaching files to e-mail messages. You will also learn to prioritize messages by labeling them. This course will cover how to create signature files. You will also learn some important features of e-mail include folders, filters, address book, and the print feature. You will also learn that e-mail messages can be tracked, searched, and downloaded. Finally, you will learn about securing your messages, encrypting messages, and using digital signatures. You will also learn the importance of creating effective passwords to prevent others from reading or altering your e-mail.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Messages	0.50	In this course, you will learn how to take advantage of the headers in e-mail messages. You will learn about the “To” field, in which you should type the recipient’s e-mail address. You will also learn when to send carbon copies and blind carbon copies of messages. You will learn the importance of writing a proper subject field for e-mail messages and that the header also includes the date and time of sending messages. Finally, you will learn how to construct the body of an e-mail message, add a personal touch to your messages by including a proper greeting, relay information by placing it in the appropriate order, and use different types of lists effectively. You learned the correct way to write long e-mail messages to keep recipients interested in the information and how to effectively close e-mail messages.
E-Mail Etiquette: E-Mail Policies	0.75	There is an unprecedented amount of documented information available today. An offensive or improper e-mail sent to one person can be copied and sent to many users. It’s important that employees familiarize themselves with and follow their organization’s e-mail policy because employers can be held liable for employee e-mail use.
E-Mail Etiquette: Netiquette Guidelines	0.50	E-mail, a relatively new way of communicating, has changed the culture of communication. Online communication has its own rules regarding acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Netiquette refers to the set of rules you should follow when communicating online.
Effective Communication with Children and Youth	2.00	We are constantly communicating with the children and youth in our program through our words and actions. It's important for program staff to think critically about their communication skills and habits in order to communicate effectively. During this course, participants will learn about effective and dynamic communication tools, strategies to check for understanding, and activities that engage children and youth in communication.
Effective Health and Safety Committees	1.00	This course covers hazards that are associated with your workplace and the best methods to control them. It also covers the basic legal requirements for employers to maintain adequate health and safety in the workplace. Finally, this course offers suggestions for starting a health and safety committee at your workplace to advocate for employee health concerns.
Effective Prehospital Patient Handoffs Between Providers	0.50	Effective Prehospital Patient Handoffs Between Providers was designed to provide a common process for reporting patient information during the prehospital care process. Communication of the patient's prehospital care from all level of providers is essential in ensuring the continuation of care in a unified and effective manner and to help provide a seamless transition in their care. This course expands on the idea of effective patient handoffs to the field providers that often transfer patients between various levels of care from first-responder through advanced paramedics. Very often, initial observations of those initial responders are unavailable to subsequent responders - either because the patient has been moved, or the scene itself has been altered. Without an effective process to communicate these details, important information can and will be lost.
Effective Presentations: Audience Analysis and Supporting Material (Instructor Guide)	0.84	Audience analysis is the process of determining the audience’s needs, so you can give an appropriate presentation. You should determine the reason people will attend your presentation; it might be a requirement, or they might be interested in the topic. It is also helpful to determine your audience's attitudes, interests, and level of knowledge. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.
Effective Presentations: Building Presentations (Instructor Guide)	1.17	Organization is extremely important in a presentation because the audience cannot follow your work if they become confused. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the presenter to help the audience understand the presentation from beginning to end. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.
Effective Presentations: Fundamentals of Persuasion (Instructor Guide)	1.17	Although all presentations are persuasive to some extent, a true persuasive presentation attempts to influence the way audience members think about something or influence the way they behave. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.