Our Courses

One Health: A Ten-Thousand-Year-Old View into the Future

Learn to see the connections between human, animal, and environmental. Understanding these connections allows us to approach challenges in a holistic and constructionist approach and address problems at their root causes rather than treating their outcomes.

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• Self Paced
• 30
• English

Pathways to Exploring and Understanding One Health Connections

This course will present several “Wicked Problems” and explore them from a One Health approach. This process will help students see how using a multi-disciplinary, cross cultural approach to understanding the root causes of these issues supports a construction of resilient and sustainable solutions.

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• Self Paced
• 30
• English

Approaches to Operationalizing One Health

Learn how to put One Health into practice. While One Health is broadly accepted as an approach to understanding issues at the interface of human, animal, and environmental health, its interdisciplinary nature can make operationalizing the approach challenging. Students will learn how to use several tools in a community-based participatory approach to build solutions from the bottom up. Such an approach improves the likelihood of sustainable success and it engages the support and priorities of the communities involved at every step.

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• Self Paced
• 28
• English

How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (and Other Emergencies)

Be prepared when disaster strikes. This free online course will teach you to recognize and successfully manage crisis events.

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• Self Paced
• 28
• English

Remote Sensing of Wildfires

Learn how satellite imagery and the science of remote sensing allows us to detect wildfires, help manage their spread, and guide ecological restoration.

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• Self Paced
• 28
• English

Sport Business Foundations

Kick off your sport management career. This course explores the variety of career pathways within the field of sport management — from youth and collegiate sport to international and major league — and will help you identify your personal strengths within sport leadership. Discover real job opportunities and learn how to network with professionals in the field – this is where you break into the industry.

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• Self Paced
• 28
• English

The Craft of Storytelling

Tell captivating stories your audiences will love.

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• Self Paced
• 80
• English

Introduction to Social Work

This course is an introduction to the profession of social work and the human services delivery system. It examines the historical development of social work focusing on the knowledge, values, and skills that characterize the social worker. This course will orient the learner to the context for social work and focus on the foundational frameworks of the profession.

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• Self Paced
• 27
• English

Areas of Social Work Practice

This course will orient the learner to the context for social work, including the diversity of human needs, human services, social policy, and legislation. Learners will also gain information about social services, social programs, and career opportunities within rural and urban Alaska, as well as nationally.

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• Self Paced
• 27
• English

Embracing the Whole Person in Social Work

This course will explore trauma and wellness from a holistic, systems approach, emphasizing connections, relationships, strengths-based, resilience, post-traumatic growth, and healing and wellness. Complex problems require complex solutions; there is no one size fits all approach.

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• Self Paced
• 45
• English

Valuing Diverse Perspectives in Social Work

This course explores and critically examines diverse ways of knowing about experiences related to the concepts of trauma and wellness, both individually and collectively, and builds upon wellness strategies that focus on context, culture, and lived experience across the lifespan.

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• Self Paced
• 32
• English

Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

How do statistics apply to your life and how can we use statistics to draw conclusions about the world? This course will provide you with an integrated and engaging online experience to explore statistics in the behavioral sciences.

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• 27
• English

Be a Better Learner Using Psychology

Many people report engaging in study habits that are not very effective or very efficient. How do we know what strategies are best? Cognitive psychologists have been doing research to ask this very question for multiple decades. It turns out that many strategies that people use extensively are not the ones that cognitive psychology research shows to be the most effective or efficient for learning. In this course, you will learn how to apply research-based principles from cognitive psychology to become a more effective and efficient learner.

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• Self Paced
• 15
• English

Positive Psychology

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• 18
• English

Psychological Influences on Decision Making

The goal of this course is to introduce you to the many psychological influences on decision making. Knowing more about the cognitive and social psychological factors underlying decision making will help you make more informed decisions and help you analyze how other people make decisions. If you are an employee, this course can help you understand how your supervisor makes decisions and how you can affect those decisions. If you are a parent, the course can help you better understand the factors that affect your children’s decision making and perhaps how you can shape it.

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• 15
• English

Qualitative Research in Psychology

In this course you will learn about the foundations of qualitative inquiry—and how it differs from quantitative research. You will gain practice in common qualitative traditions—like phenomenology and ethnography—and some of the methods they use, such as interviewing. You will gain the competence, confidence, and “know-how” to begin planning your very own qualitative study of a topic in psychology.

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• 15
• English

Embedded Systems Essentials with Arm: Getting Started

Get practical without hardware. Quickly prototype and build microcontroller projects using industry-standard APIs.

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• 12
• English

Business Models for Technology Innovators

Engineers and technology innovators need to understand how their contribution fits into the bigger picture. At the heart of this is the business model. Learn through a series of case studies how to understand and deploy business models to capture value and maximise the opportunities of your technology passion.

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• 13
• English

Embedded Systems Essentials with Arm: Get Practical with Hardware

Spark your creativity with Arm. Level up your Embedded Systems skills by developing working embedded prototypes using the Mbed API and an Arm-based development board, and unlock the boundless opportunities of the Internet of Things.

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• 12
• English

Build Your First Internet of Things (IoT) Application on Arm

Learn to build functional IoT solutions such as an environmental sensor and an activity monitor that you can feature in your CV or portfolio of work - showcasing your skills to peers, professors or prospective employers.

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• 12
• English

Machine Learning at the Edge on Arm: A Practical Introduction

****This course will provide you with the hands-on experience you’ll need to create innovative machine learning applications using ubiquitous Arm-based microcontrollers.

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• 8
• English

Teaching with Physical Computing: Introduction to Project-Based Learning

This course introduces the fundamental concepts underpinning Project-Based Learning, and how you can apply it with programmable devices to bring STEM & Computing to life in the classroom.

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• 10
• English

Teaching with Physical Computing: Practical application and classroom strategies for PBL

This course guides you in using real-world problems to spark your learners’ creativity and empower them to develop their own solutions using Physical Computing.

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• Self Paced
• 3
• English

Teaching with Physical Computing: Assessment of Project-Based Learning

Learn how to confidently and effectively use assessment in Project-Based Learning.

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• 12
• English

Teaching with Physical Computing: Soft skills, teamwork and the wider curriculum

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the ‘non-technical’ elements that make Project-Based Learning an important addition to STEM & Computing classrooms, and how to integrate them into your teaching.

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• Self Paced
• 6
• English