Extension Foundation Online Campus
No hard deadlines, these will be rolling admission courses meant to be completed at the participants' own pace.
Smart Use Essential Health Benefits: Do you know what your health insurance covers? Understanding your health insurance benefits will make you a smart healthcare consumer. Learn strategies for understanding, getting and using your health insurance benefits.
- Teacher: Jesse Ketterman
- Teacher: Maggie Wolen
No hard deadlines, these will be rolling admission courses meant to be completed at the participants' own pace.
Smart Use Smart Actions for Health Insurance: Knowing how to use your health insurance will make you a smart healthcare consumer. Identify smart actions that will help you become a Smart User of health insurance.
- Teacher: Jesse Ketterman
- Teacher: Maggie Wolen
No hard deadlines, these will be rolling admission courses meant to be completed at the participants' own pace.
Smart Choice Health Insurance Basics: Choosing the right health care insurance plan makes you a smart consumer. Increase your understanding of health insurance and learn strategies for selecting a health care plan that will meet your health care needs and fit your spending plan.
- Teacher: Jesse Ketterman
- Teacher: Maggie Wolen
No hard deadlines, these will be rolling admission courses meant to be completed at the participants' own pace.
Smart Choice/Smart Use Instructor Preparation: This course is self-guided with elements that provide content, give you opportunities to engage, and review the material. If you wish to become certified to teach any of the Smart Choice/Smart Use modules, you must complete this course. It is divided into these three main sections:
* Theoretical Framework - This block provides you with the theoretical framework that guided the development of the Smart Choice / Smart Use programs.
* Adult Learning Theory - This block provides insight on adult learning theory. Each of the Smart Choice / Smart Use modules were developed using a theoretical framework and adult learning theory.
* Program Requirements - Here outlined are the program requirements necessary to receive access to the materials.
- Teacher: Jesse Ketterman
- Teacher: Maggie Wolen
No hard deadlines, these will be rolling admission courses meant to be completed at the participants' own pace.
Smart Use Understanding and Estimating Health Care Costs: Taking control of your health care costs makes you a smart healthcare consumer. Better understand and estimate your health care expenses so you can plan for future health care costs.
- Teacher: Jesse Ketterman
- Teacher: Maggie Wolen
Design Your Succession Plan workshops assists farm/ranch owners to get started on their succession plan and shape the future of their operation. This workbooks will help an owner get started on a succession plan; lean how to open lines of communication with family, employees, and partners to create a shared vision; and construct a plan to work with professionals who will assist in the transition process.
The fee for this workshop is $10. To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following link:
- Teacher: Sonja Fuchs
Welcome to the self-paced Smart Choice / Smart Use Health Insurance TM Certified Educator training program. This program will prepare you to conduct consumer programs using the Smart Choice / Smart Use Health Insurance TM modules. The programs are designed, tested and produced by the University of Maryland Extension and University of Delaware Cooperative Extension Health Insurance Literacy Initiative (HILI) team.
- Teacher: Jesse Ketterman
- Teacher: Maggie Wolen
Design Your Succession Plan for Small Business workshops assists small business owners to get started on their succession plan and shape the future ownership of their business. This workbook will help a business owner get started on a succession plan; learn how to open lines of communication with family, employees, and partners to create a shared vision; and construct a plan to work with professionals who will assist in the transition process.
The fee for this course is $10. To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button:
- Teacher: Sonja Fuchs
This course examines the evolution of the global bioeconomy and major drivers behind its growth while providing detailed business and financial training. By understanding the forces behind the growth of the bioeconomy, students can identify features in products and services that can potentially capture value (profit) in this sector. The course provides basic to complex conversion economics and financial concepts as well as business tools for non-financial trained students. At the end of the course, students will be capable of analyzing and screening opportunities for profit while promoting the adoption of bio-based products and thus meet the growing demand for sustainable goods.
- Teacher: Richard Venditti
Fundamentals of Agricultural Credit Analysis is a self directed course for beginning agricultural lenders and beginning farmers. In this course participants will learn how to analyze financial statements to make credit decisions. In addition, the farmer will learn how to use financial statements to make better management decisions.
For more information on this course or to enroll please contact: Ryan Larsen at ryan.larsen@ndsu.edu
- Teacher: Ryan Larsen
Basic Radio 101 for North Dakota Emergency Responders is a self-directed course for paid and volunteer people who serve in EMS, law enforcement, firefighting and other first responder activities. Participants will learn how to use their radios appropriately, protocols to follow and how to troubleshoot common problems. For more information, contact Brenda Vossler, N.D. Department of Emergency Services training and exercise officer, at (701) 328-8106 or blvossler@nd.gov. For technical support, contact Becky Koch, (701) 231-7875 or becky.koch@ndsu.edu, with North Dakota State University Agriculture Communication.
- Teacher: Becky Koch
The audience for this course is:
By taking this course, students will learn:
For more information or to enroll please contact:
- Teacher: Jodi Bruns
- Teacher: Susan Milender
- Teacher: Katherine Tyler
- Teacher: Hilde van Gijssel
Fundamentals of Agricultural Credit Analysis is a self directed course for beginning agricultural lenders and beginning farmers. In this course participants will learn how to analyze financial statements to make credit decisions. In addition, the farmer will learn how to use financial statements to make better management decisions.
For more information on this course or to enroll please contact: Ryan Larsen at ryan.larsen@ndsu.edu
- Teacher: Ryan Larsen
This course has been replaced. Please visit the new course site to register and complete the course.
Transportation workers and others who need to flag traffic on public and private roadways in Nebraska who take this course will be able to successfully complete the required tasks of a flagger: Guide traffic through work areas; Protect workers; Prevent unreasonable delays for road users; and Answer motorists’ questions politely and knowledgeably.
This course is for all new certification enrollees after March 26, 2018. To access a certificate earned or finish a course begun prior to that date, visit the prior version of the course.
For information or to enroll in the 2018 course contact: Megan Patent-Nygren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Local Technical Assistance Program, mpatentnygren2@unl.edu
- Teacher: Megan Patent-Nygren