

Our Courses
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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27
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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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45
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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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32
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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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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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15
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Positive Psychology
In this course you will learn about positive psychology, the scientific study of how psychological states, such as happiness, and character strengths, such as optimism and gratitude, contribute to well-being. You will learn about research on ways you can thrive and flourish personally and professionally. Upon completing this course, you will understand the important roles that positive emotions, relationships, and meaning play in happiness, life satisfaction, and mental health.
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18
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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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3
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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
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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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6
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Architecting Solutions on AWS
Are you looking to get more technical? Are you looking to begin working in the cloud, but don’t know where to go next? Are you puzzled how to match a customer’s requirements with the right AWS services/solutions? If so, you are in the right place!! You’ll learn how to plan, think, and act like a Solution Architect in a real-life customer scenario.
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6
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Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS
In this class, we will help you understand how to create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way, without previous knowledge of data science!
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6
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Containerized Applications on AWS
Learn how to utilize container technologies and AWS services to modernize your applications.
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6
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Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundations
This new foundational-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS), is designed to help you to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam.
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6
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Getting Started with Data Analytics on AWS
Learn how to go from raw data to meaningful insights using AWS with this one-week course.
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10
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DevOps on AWS: Code, Build, and Test
Learn the basic concepts, technology, use cases, and benefits of implementing DevOps on AWS
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6
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DevOps on AWS: Release and Deploy
Eliminate the all-hands-on-deck manual process at the end of the development cycle
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9
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DevOps on AWS: Operate and Monitor
Track, identify, understand key metrics and resolve application or infrastructure issues in real time
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6
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