Courses tagged with "Nutrition" (6413)

Do you have some experience building apps for the iPhone or iPad and want to build an app from the ground up, but don't know where to begin? Look no further! In this course, you'll learn the process of building an iOS app, from brainstorming ideas to publishing on the App Store.

Learn about the potential of using MOOCs for nonprofit community building and how to “MOOC” your human service.

How do we read and model fictional minds? Introducing cognitive poetics: the application of cognitive science to literary reading.

How can we talk more effectively in the workplace? This course introduces linguistic techniques to enhance business communication.

This course is for anyone interested in elections. Participants will receive practical advice on setting an ethical tone, ethical decision-making, ethical operations, and using campaign ethics to their advantage.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) will prepare you to respond to life-threatening emergencies in the adult population with advanced interventions.

This health and safety course will teach participants how to perform advanced emergency interventions as well as review foundation theories including:

• Basic Life Support
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart
• Resuscitation Team
• Systematic Approach,
• Life-Threatening Issues
• Medical Devices
• Bradycardia
• Tachycardia

The course package includes:

• ACLS Self-Assessments and Review Questions
• ACLS Lectures and Video Presentations
• ACLS Provider Manual

Who should take this course?

• Healthcare Professionals
• Medical Students
• Nurses
• Doctors
• Emergency Responders

Whether you are applying for certification for the first time, or renewing your current certification, this course prepares you for Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification. When you have completed the course, you will be directed to take the certification exam, through National Health Care Provider Solutions.

Knowing the process of Basic Life Support (BLS) is critical in responding to life-threatening emergencies. The newest BLS course guidelines focus on doing several tasks simultaneously with a group process that promotes efficiency and minimization of errors.

This healthy and safety course will teach learners how to perform life support techniques including chest compressions, basic airway management, rescue breathing, AED use for defibrillation, and more.

The course package includes:

• An online BLS study guide
• A BLS instructional presentation

Who should take this course?

• Medical Assistants
• Nurses
• Medical Students
• Doctors
• EMS

Whether you are applying for certification for the first time, or renewing your current certification, this course prepares you for Basic Life Support certification. When you have completed the course, you will be directed to take the certification exam, through National Health Care Provider Solutions.

This health and safety course will prepare you to perform CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), First Aid, and use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in accordance with the latest guidelines. You will learn how to provide care for simple and complex injuries, respond to common medical problems, perform high quality CPR, basic airway management, and safety and prevention. This course   includes infants, children, and adults. This course uses basic medical terminology that is typically understood and recognized by everyone from laypersons to medical professionals.

The course includes:

• CPR, AED & First Aid Lectures and Video Presentations
• CPR, AED & First Aid Knowledge Assessments and Review Questions
• CPR, AED & First Aid Provider Manual

Who should take this course?

• Teachers
• Students
• Business Professionals
• Caregivers
• Medical Assistants

This health and safety course is self-paced. The course is set up in a similar fashion as the provided course manual, starting with the basics, and ending with more advanced and age-specific CPR interventions.

Whether you are applying for certification for the first time, or renewing your current certification, this course prepares you for CPR, AED, and First Aid certification. When you have completed the course, you will be directed to take the certification exam, through National Health Care Provider Solutions.

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) will prepare you to respond to life-threatening emergencies in the pediatric population with advanced interventions.

You will learn how to perform advanced emergency interventions as well as review foundation theories including:

• Basic life support
• Anatomy and physiology of the heart
• Resuscitation team
• Systematic Approach,
• Life-Threatening Issues
• Medical Devices,
• Bradycardia
• Tachycardia

Who should take this course?

• Nurses
• Paramedics
• Physicians
• Medical Students
• Physician Assistants 

The course package includes:

• PALS Self-Assessments and Review Questions
• Numerous PALS Lectures and Video Presentations
• PALS Provider Manual

Whether you are applying for certification for the first time, or renewing your current certification, this course prepares you for Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification. When you have completed the course, you will be directed to take the certification exam, through National Health Care Provider Solutions.

This course explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions by looking at how people overthrow their rulers and establish new governments. Considers a set of major political transformations throughout the world and across centuries to understand the meaning of revolution and evaluate its impact. Examines how revolutionaries have attempted to establish their ideals and realize their goals. Asks whether radical upheavals require bloodshed, violence, or even terror. Seeks to explain why some revolutions succeed and others fail. Materials include the writings of revolutionaries, declarations and constitutions, music, films, art, novels, memoirs, and newspapers.

This free three week course provides the tools you need to succeed at interviews and land your dream job or course place.

This free three week course will help you produce a perfect CV, application and online profile when applying for a job or course.

Learn about college life and develop strategies to help you be successful during your undergraduate experience.

You need to be smart to begin a PhD - but you need to be resilient to finish one. Between one-quarter and one-third of all research students never finish their degree. The PhD is an emotional journey as much as it is an intellectual one.

What kinds of emotions does the research degree process provoke? What strategies can help students deal with the emotional highs and lows? How can academic advisors, family and friends help research students cope with these stresses - and celebrate the successes?

This course is primarily designed for masters, PhD, and research students and the academics who are tasked with helping them, but you may also be a family member or friend of a PhD student who is seeking to better understand what your loved one is going through.

By directly addressing the emotional issues, and by helping us see the connections between emotional resilience and success, this course aims to help us all create a more supportive academic environment, where students can do their best research work. 

Heighten your workplace awareness of social patterns and the communication needs of your coworkers to immediately improve your working environment. This course is for anyone who wants to communicate better with coworkers, supervisors, or subordinates.

Are you thinking about teaching high school math? Learning how to implement effective teaching strategies is essential to creating a successful environment for both you and your students. In this education and teacher training course, you will learn, from experts at Teach for America, how to teach introductory fundamental geometry concepts and empower students to explore math on their own.

You will have the opportunity to engage in creative teaching practices and learn new ways to imagine and visualize approaches for teaching geometry. You will also learn best practices to better support student learning in a math classroom. If you are preparing for or considering teaching geometry, this course will be ideal for you as you explore effective classroom instructional strategies, operations and better understand the foundational content you will teach in a high school geometry class across diverse student communities.

This course includes a weekly module that covers teaching strategies while also introducing commonly taught high school geometry content including:

• segment/angle addition
• basic and parallel/transversal line angle
• angle relationships
• perpendicular and parallel linear equations

You can jump between lessons to quickly review geometry content and classroom strategies relevant to your learning interests. This course covers geometry curriculum typically covered in high school classroom and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) alignment is indicated where applicable. No prerequisite knowledge is required, however, basic algebra skills will be useful (as well as a strong desire to make an engaging and inclusive geometry class)!

Effective use of version control is an important and useful skill for any developer working on long-lived (or even medium-lived) projects, especially if more than one developer is involved. This course, *built with input from GitHub*, will introduce the basics of using version control by focusing on a particular version control system called Git and a collaboration platform called GitHub. This course is part of the Front End and Full Stack Nanodegrees..

Offered during MIT's Independent Activites Period (IAP), this short course covers the poker concepts, math concepts, and general concepts needed to play the game of Texas Hold'em on a professional level.

IAP is a special 4-week term in January that provides members of the MIT community including students, faculty, staff, and alums with an opportunity to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of activities and topics that are often outside of the regular MIT curriculum.

Faculty Advisor: Paul Mende

Want to be the programmer hot tech companies are looking for?

Take your programming skills to the next level and prove your excellence by learning how to succeed in programming competitions.

Besides improving your knowledge of algorithms and programming languages, you’ll gain unique experience in problem solving, thinking outside the box and meeting tough deadlines – all essential for boosting your value as a programmer and securing a coveted job in Silicon Valley (should you want one).

This computer science course is an introduction to competitive programming developed by ITMO University, the leading expert in IT and the only 6-time world champion of the Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC), the world's most prestigious programming contest.

You will learn all you need to know about the variety of programming competitions that exist, as well as basic algorithms and data structures necessary to succeed in the most popular of them.

Have you always wanted to write a novel? Have you started a novel only to run out of steam halfway through? Led by international best-selling authors and professors from The University of British Columbia’s world-renowned Creative Writing MFA program, this is part of a series of courses designed to take your novel from concept to completion.

Outlining is a crucial step in the novel writing process, one that fuels creativity and prepares the writer to stay on track and avoid common pitfalls. Through hands-on weekly exercises with a focus on craft and process, as well as insights from the real-world practices of accomplished authors, this course explores the core elements of fiction writing necessary to build an outline. You will learn the fundamentals of character development, world-building and the basics of storytelling architecture. You'll work intensively on your own creative project and hone your outline through feedback and discussion with fellow writers.

In the tradition of the UBC MFA program, this course draws on the work habits of established authors to help writers move quickly toward creating a blueprint for a successful draft. Whether you’re seeking literary fame or working on a project to share with family and friends, this course offers the tools and skills necessary to plan a novel others will be excited to read.

The course is recommended for professional and aspiring writers, writing groups, participants in NaNoWriMo, teachers and anyone who has ever dreamed of writing a novel.