Extension Foundation Online Campus
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
Maple Financial Planning
Instructor: Mark Cannella (University of Vermont Extension Associate Professor)
This three session course will guide participants
through basic concepts in financial planning, financial statements and developing a budget. Students will prepare sections of their own budget plan
over the three week time-frame of the course or use sample scenarios to practice budgeting skills.
This course runs October 28th - November 18th 2021
Contact Mark Cannella via email with any questions: Mark.Cannella@uvm.edu
- Teacher: Mark Cannella
- Teacher: Jacob Walker
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
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: Shana McAlexander
- Teacher: Adam Scouse
- 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
By taking this course, Educators who want to improve their level of economic education and teaching practices will improve their critical thinking to become a “good economist” who is able to recognize good and bad economic thinking; improve in behaviors which increase lifetime wealth creation; understand and articulate answers to the essential questions of economics; recognize and produce good economics informational text; and improve in structuring learning experiences.
For more information or to enroll contact: Dr. Becky Smith, Mississippi State University Extension at becky.smith@msstate.edu
- Teacher: Brandon Bolen
- Teacher: Becky Smith
- Teacher: Rush Sweeney
Understanding Communities and Their Dynamics is a facilitated course designed for individuals working in community development, either formally or informally, in any capacity. Participants will gain skill in uncovering
and using data to determine changing conditions impacting your target audiences; get a better handle on the key components shaping the economic health of your community; and become familiar with the people, knowledge and resources to advance your community
programs; and identify important challenges facing your communities.
For more information email Mary.Peabody@uvm.edu.
Enrollment in this course is now closed.
- Facilitator: Mary Peabody
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 only open to those who need to retrieve a completion certificate or complete a course in-progress prior to March 26, 2018. For new certifications, use the 2018 NDOT Flagger Certification Course.
For information contact: Megan Patent-Nygren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Local Technical Assistance Program, mpatentnygren2@unl.edu
- Teacher: Megan Patent-Nygren
The audience for this course is:
By taking this course, students will learn:
For more information or to enroll please contact:
- Teacher: Andrea Bowman
- 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
- Content Specialists: Erik Hanson
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
By taking this course, Educators who want to improve their level of economic education and teaching practices will improve their critical thinking to become a “good economist” who is able to recognize good and bad economic thinking; improve in behaviors which increase lifetime wealth creation; understand and articulate answers to the essential questions of economics; recognize and produce good economics informational text; and improve in structuring learning experiences.
For more information or to enroll contact: Dr. Becky Smith, Mississippi State University Extension at becky.smith@msstate.edu
- Teacher: Becky Smith
- Teacher: Rush Sweeney