Courses

Join Laura Lander, Amanda Newhouse, and Kristen Boyce in this 57-minute webinar from WVCTSI Project ECHO CPS as they explore comprehensive approaches to family treatment. Learn about effective strategies, best practices, and innovative techniques for supporting families through therapeutic interventions.

Family Businesses are a dominant form of business across the globe and play a crucial role in the economic growth of a nation. However, managing a family business comes with its own unique set of challenges owing to the overlap of family emotions and business aspirations. While the strong hold of family members over the business may dampen the spirit of other members in management, the complex structure of the business evokes a negative public perception in general. Hence, managing family businesses requires a careful, considerate, tactful approach to maintain peaceful harmony among all the stakeholders. This course brings together the insights from experienced family business practitioners, professional managers, and researchers to address the challenges of family businesses in a pragmatic manner. This course is open to family business owners, soon-to-be owners (successors of a business), professional managers, and any inquisitive learner interested in family businesses.

Home Gardening is a general education course, which is suitable for students majoring in gardening in higher vocational colleges, people work in the industry of gardening, and home gardening enthusiasts to study independently. The course adopts a combination of online learning and offline practice. Through the course design of home gardening basic knowledge, common home propagation methods, flowers in the garden open field, indoor potted flowers, we will lead you to systematically learn the relevant theories and practical skills in all aspects of home gardening, so that students can master these knowledge and skills at the same time, cultivate their temperament and moral character.

Explore the comprehensive tutorial on the Exponential Family of probability distributions, covering a wide range of topics from basic concepts to advanced applications. Learn about the mean and variance of exponential families, and delve into specific distributions such as Normal, Bernoulli, Binomial, Poisson, Negative Binomial, Exponential, Pareto, Weibull, Laplace, Chi-square, Gamma, Log Normal, Beta, Multinomial, Inverse Gamma, and Skew-Logistic. Gain practical skills by using R to simulate and confirm theoretical results, and understand the distribution of sufficient statistics. Discover the application of exponential families in multiple linear regression and explore the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound. This in-depth tutorial provides a solid foundation for understanding and working with exponential families in statistical analysis and modeling.

This course provides a preview runthrough of the board game Lawyer Up. By watching the gameplay and final thoughts videos, learners will gain an understanding of how the game is played and strategies for success. The course aims to familiarize participants with the rules and mechanics of Lawyer Up. This course is suitable for board game enthusiasts interested in learning about Lawyer Up before playing.

Explore the evolving landscape of legal practice in this 23-minute TEDxHepingPark talk by Sibo Qing, a practicing lawyer in China and New York State. Discover how technological advancements are transforming the legal profession, shifting from traditional offline methods to online platforms and leveraging big data. Gain insights into the future of law, where change is the only constant. Learn about corporate advisory legal services, equity design, private equity funds, mergers and acquisitions, and international investment from an experienced professional. Understand the impact of AI on the legal field and how lawyers can adapt to remain relevant in an increasingly digital world.

How can families support healthy living and cope with illness? This free course, Exploring family health, will provide an understanding of what is meant by socialisation. You will recognise how a family can learn and support good and poor health behaviours alongside government interventions, such as the 5 A DAY strategy. Identification of people with Alzheimer's disease is steadily increasing and you will consider key features and research. Caring within a family will be considered through reading about Sheila who cares for her husband and son. Finally, the course will look at the plight of young carers, often hidden from view, and losing part of their childhood due to their caring responsibilities.

This course is designed for health educators and home visitors serving families with infants 0-6 months old. Learners will gain knowledge and skills to make a positive impact on healthy infant nutrition and growth as well as maternal and family nutrition. This course is uniquely tailored towards Indigenous families and approaches nutrition through a strengths-based lens connecting to Indigenous foods and Native Foodways.

Community Nutrition is striving to improve the health, nutrition and well being of individuals and groups within communities. It encompasses a broad set of activities designed to provide access to safe,adequate, healthful diet to a population living in a particular geographic area.These activities includes nutrition education, nutrition or health promotion, food programs, preventive programs, local policy analysis and development and the organizational infrastructurethat supports it.Nutrition: is the study of the influence of food intake on health and wellbeing maintenance and physiologic needs of the body. This is done by reviewing and assessing many different parametric to assess a person’s nutritional status by use of medical tests and other tools that provides dietary information.Deficiency diseases are diseases in humans that are directly or indirectly caused by a lack of essential nutrients in the diet

Bring out the best in your subjects with professional photographer Kirk Tuck’s advanced strategies for family portraiture. Transform any setting into a portrait studio with Kirk’s quick tips on composing a shot, and easily create ideal lighting indoors and out with the use of bounce flash, umbrellas and affordable materials like foam core. Discover the key to engaging your subject as Kirk reveals how to capture shots of energetic and oftentimes impatient toddlers. Shoot flattering portraits of mature subjects with professional exposure and composition techniques. Learn how to direct and pose a large group, and then move into post-processing to erase blemishes, soften wrinkles and modify color cast for polished images that families will be proud to display in their homes for years to come.

Learn essential principles of managing family-owned enterprises through a comprehensive course covering unique characteristics, challenges, governance structures, and succession planning. Explore family business life cycles, internal and external challenges, conflict management, trust building, and the role of non-family management. Master effective communication strategies between family members, understand family business governance frameworks, and develop succession plans for sustainable business longevity. Through quizzes, midterm and final examinations, gain practical knowledge to successfully navigate the complexities of family business dynamics while ensuring long-term sustainability and growth.

Besides being simple mementos, family photographs can offer insights into the past. This free course, Picturing the family, looks at some of the ways photographs can reveal, and sometimes conceal, important information about the past. It teaches the skills and provides some of the knowledge needed to interpret such pictorial sources.

Explore the ancient Indian concept of "VasudhaivaKutumbakam" (The World Is One Family) in this thought-provoking TEDx talk. Delve into the power of collectivism and its crucial role in achieving true global development. Challenge conventional notions of progress that leave some behind, as the speaker argues that "development for some is development for none." Draw inspiration from the African philosophy of "I am because we are" and learn how to shift your mindset towards embracing our interconnectedness. Discover the importance of shared responsibility for the well-being of the entire world and gain insights on how to adopt a global family perspective in your own life and actions.

Languages Available: Deutsch | Español (Latinoamérica) | Français | Bahasa Indonesia | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Português (Brasil) | 中文（简体) AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed, secure support for file transfers directly into and out of Amazon Storage services with support for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2). The AWS Transfer Family expands the options available to seamlessly migrate your file transfer workflows to AWS by integrating with existing clients, authentication systems, and scripts. This course teaches you about the AWS Transfer Family service. You learn what the service is and how it works. The benefits of using this service are explained so that you can determine why and how you should use it. You are provided with a high-level view of AWS Transfer Family service architectures so that you can understand how to access the service and how your data is ultimately stored in AWS. Course level: IntermediateDuration: 1 Hour ActivitiesThis course includes: Online materials, exercises, and knowledge check questions. Course objectivesIn this course, you will learn to:Identify the benefits and features of AWS Transfer FamilyDescribe the AWS Transfer Family architectureDescribe the AWS Transfer Family pricing modelDescribe storage security controls within AWS Transfer FamilyExplain the requirements for managing an AWS Transfer Family deployment Intended audienceThis course is intended for:Cloud architectsStorage architectsSystem administratorsOperations engineers PrerequisitesWe recommend that attendees of this course have:Completed the Getting Started with AWS Storage courseAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or equivalent knowledge Course outlineSection 1: OverviewLesson 1: How to Use This CourseLesson 2: Course OverviewSection 2: AWS Transfer Family IntroductionLesson 3: Transfer Family OverviewLesson 4: Transfer Family Features and BenefitsLesson 5: Use CasesSection 3: Understanding a Transfer Family DeploymentLesson 6: Architectural ComponentsLesson 7: Servers and ProtocolsLesson 8: Integration with Other AWS ServicesLesson 9: Transfer Family PricingSection 4: Managing a Transfer Family DeploymentLesson 10: WorkflowsLesson 11: Storage ServicesLesson 12: Security, User Management, and AuthenticationSection 5: Knowledge CheckLesson 13: Knowledge Check QuestionsSection 6: Additional Resources and FeedbackLesson 14: Transfer Family Additional ResourcesLesson 15: Feedback

Dive into the PreKeynote Welcome address from Derbycon 2015, exploring a range of topics including sponsor recognition, financial updates, and the exciting announcement of beating DefCon. Learn about the Ice Challenge, Hackers for Charity initiative, and receive important conference news. Engage with this 26-minute talk that sets the tone for the event, encouraging attendees to have fun while participating in the hacking community's gathering.

Family businesses are the backbone of our economy—not just in Canada, but around the globe. Despite being the most common type of ownership structure, family businesses are often the most complex; relationships between family members can become strained, especially if emotions take over, causing challenges that can affect the bottom line. In this course, family business participants examine the importance of cultivating their own emotional intelligence (EQ) to achieve greater business success. While the course focuses primarily on next-generation successors, it also provides elders with an opportunity to explore their own experiences in order to help sustain healthy family business relationships, especially during transition periods from one generation to the next. In addition, the course provides family business advisors with a deeper understanding of how EQ will help them communicate more effectively with their family business clients.

Explore the expanding xLeapp family of digital forensics tools in this 52-minute webinar featuring FBI Special Agent Alexis Brignoni and Davenport University Assistant Professor Mark McKinnon. Discover the latest developments in iLeapp and aLeapp, and learn about four new projects: cLeapp, rLeapp, vLeapp, and wLeapp. Gain insights into the shared framework that facilitates easy integration of artifacts across projects, and understand how to extend existing projects or create new ones within the xLeapp ecosystem. Delve into topics such as Android and iOS test images, GUI interfaces, OCR capabilities, and various Google products relevant to digital forensics. Recorded as part of the OSDFCon webinar series, this presentation offers valuable knowledge for professionals and enthusiasts in the field of digital forensics and cybersecurity.

Explore a 46-minute lecture on the family signature theorem presented by Oscar Randal-Williams from the University of Cambridge at the Fields Institute. Delve into the extension of Hirzebruch's signature theorem to families of smooth manifolds, examining how it relates the Chern character of a vector bundle constructed from local systems of intersection forms to the fibre integral of the L-class. Learn about the application of the family index theorem for the fibrewise signature operator in this context. This talk was part of the Conference on Homotopy Theory with Applications to Arithmetic and Geometry held from June 27-30, 2022.

Personal and Family Financial Planning will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime.

Change your life with this method! Discover your hidden family dynamics! What you'll learn: You discover the healing power in your family .You recognize your own unconscious imprints by the familyYou learn to transform the negative imprintsYou improve and strengthen the connections in your family.You discover how you can improve your partnershipYou know what it takes to be a good father or motherYou understand essential principles for a fulfilled life "Family constellation" is the method which - faster than any other psychological method before - has spread from Germany throughout the world in the last two decades. This approach is powerful in its healing effects and gives insights in solutions for many conflicts in families and couples - and for conflicts within yourself! In this course you win a deep understanding about the influence of your family on your problems and on your wellbeing. In 25 exercises you will discover the new insights not only theoretically, but also practically. These guided imaginations allow you to heal personal issues. So that the love for yourself, for your family and for life as a whole will flow even more!At the same time you start to see others and their difficulties with new eyes. You understand more how and why we humans act.If you want to become a facilitator of family constellation, this course is a great help!I practice and teach family constellations since more than 25 years in many parts of the world. In eight books I have described the various aspects of this effective method - this course contains the essence.