Courses
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Evaluating Scientific Proposals for Cultural Resources in Wilderness
This course is the third in a series of three courses on Cultural Resources Management in Wilderness. It provides a comprehensive overview of the process used to evaluate proposals for scientific activity in wilderness.
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Evaluating Scientific Proposals for Paleontological Resources in Wilderness
This course, the final course in the Paleontological Resources in Wilderness course of study, discusses the process of evaluating proposals for conducting scientific activity in wilderness and examines the decisions wilderness managers must make in order to preserve wilderness character during such activity.
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Facility Management - Basics of Cost Estimating
Learn about cost estimating, a tool to help key personnel make informed decisions during preliminary budgetary planning. Learn More$59.00 -
Facility Management 2: Metrics and Data Driven Decision Making
A specific step in the Asset Management Process is creating an inventory of all your assets in order to determine the importance of those assets and their condition using a balanced scorecard approach. Learn More$59.00 -
Facility Management 3: Conducting Condition Assessments
Learn how to conduct condition assessments, the first step in addressing maintenance backlogs and more efficiently managing your facility. Learn More$59.00 -
Facility Management Certificate
Build a foundational understanding of facility management practices, particularly as they apply to parks and public lands agencies. The course follows the Asset Management Process, an approach used by the National Park Service. Learn More$350.00 -
Facility Management: Creating a Scope of Work
This course focuses on the concept of a “scope of work” and explains how a good scope of work sets the rules for a project and makes an accurate cost estimate possible. Learn More$59.00 -
Foundations of Interpretation
All over the world docents, park guides, and naturalists at museums, parks, zoos, and cultural and historical sites strive to provide meaningful experiences for visitors. Interpretation is the essential tool they use. Learn MoreFree -
Fundamentals in Interpretation
Establish a strong foundation in the basics of interpretation. This certificate program explores the history of interpretation as a profession and provides knowledge in roving, informal interpretation, audience identification and engagement, and interpretive talks.
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Green Heritage Amenities and contributions to society: Review of scientific evidences and shared values to cultivate green spaces
Plant & City is the French national center for research and experiments on green spaces and urban landscaping. Established as an association (nonprofit organization), it currently has more than 500 members (local authorities, landscaping firms, design offices, research and training establishments, etc.). Learn MoreFree -
History of Parks: Conceptual Justification for Developing and Maintaining Parks
This recorded webcast is designed for park and public agency employees who are interested in the history of parks. The session will include historical details, drawings and photographs of the people and places who make up the story, their objectives, successes and failures.
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How to Prepare an Interpretive Program
Learn the components of a successful interpretive program and how to formulate a meaningful interpretive talk of your own. Learn MoreFree -
Interpretation and Coaching for ABMC Managers
The purpose of this course is to help ABMC managers further appreciate their role as supervisors, coaches, auditors, and appraisers of interpretive programs and projects. Interpretive coaching and supervision are important responsibilities of ABMC supervisors.
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Interpretive Talk
Learn practical steps for creating an effective and well-crafted interpretive talk. Learn More$59.00 -
Interpretive Writing
This course explores the reasons we write and teaches the basic elements of effective interpretive writing.Please note: This course is currently being revised with the National Association for Interpretation. The revised version will be released in October 2017. If you have any questions, please contact Project Manager Nona Henderson at nfcapps@indiana.edu or 812-855-0864.
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Introduction to Capital Improvement Programs
This course provides an introduction to capital improvement. Capital improvement is defined and its connections to an agency’s mission are discussed.
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Introduction to Facility Management Practices
Assets are the building blocks for the Facility Management industry. This course will introduce you to the concept and underlying theory of the Asset Management Process. Learn More$59.00 -
Introduction to the National Park Service: The History of the NPS
Learn about the contents of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and its impact on managing a wilderness area. Learn MoreRegular Price: $19.00
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Inventory and Monitoring of Paleontological Resources in Wilderness
This course, the second course in the Paleontological Resources Management in Wilderness course of study, provides an in-depth look at the inventory and monitoring process associated with paleontological resources.
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Knowing and Connecting to Your Audience
The visitor is sovereign. Interpreters may hear this very basic but very important concept many times during the course of their career. What does it mean? It means that each visitor or guest brings a unique level of knowledge, interest, and care each time they visit a site.
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Lighting
Lighting enhances, extends and promotes the use of parks and public places after dark. The way we light our parks can have serious effects on public perception of safety and can cause negative effects on people and the environment.
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Linking Parks to Pedestrian Networks: Making Connections by Integrating Trails and Amenities
This webcast describes how to establish a network of regional trails and greenways to connect cities, centers, parks, natural areas, and neighborhoods in your area. Learn MoreFree -
Managing Park Assets: Asset Prioritization – API
What is the Asset Priority Index (API), and how does it relate to the effective management of park assets? In this course, you will answer these questions and learn techniques for completing the API worksheet as a management team. Learn MoreFree -
Managing Special Provisions in Wilderness: Fire
Learn about the appropriate management of fire in wilderness, including the use of prescribed fire and fuel treatments. This course is not a replacement for fire training. Learn MoreFree -
Managing Special Provisions in Wilderness: Insects and Disease
Learn about relevant considerations for managing insects and disease in wilderness.
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Managing Special Provisions in Wilderness: Wildlife
The Wilderness Act of 1964 states: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the several States with respect to wildlife and fish in the national forests." This course examines the meaning of this simple sentence and places it in the context of the Wilderness Act as a whole. Learn MoreFree -
Managing Special Provisions: Inholdings and Rights-of-Way
This training course addresses the management of rights-of-way and access to inholdings in designated wilderness.
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Media Fundamentals for Interpreters
This course provides the necessary grounding for field interpreters to develop in-house products and work directly with professional media planners and designers in developing media services.Please note: This course is currently being revised with the National Association for Interpretation. The revised version will be released in October 2017. If you have any questions, please contact Project Manager Nona Henderson at nfcapps@indiana.edu or 812-855-0864.
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More Than Just a Field Trip: Interpretation for School Curriculum
Learn to develop curriculum-based programs for educational groups and to describe and identify the curriculum-based programming process. Learn More$59.00 -
National Park Service - Creation of the National Park Service
Part 3Micro learning courses are an excellent way to learn content in quick and focused segments. These concise and informative courses enable learning when time is limited. The use of video and other instructional techniques make this an engaging experience for the learner and provide a unique alternative to our full-length courses.
Photo by Isaiah West Taber - Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. VI. No. 4, January, 1908, pg. 211 [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28233048
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National Park Service - Micro-Learning: History of the National Park Service
Part 2Micro learning courses are an excellent way to learn content in quick and focused segments. These concise and informative courses enable learning when time is limited. The use of video and other instructional techniques make this an engaging experience for the learner and provide a unique alternative to our full-length courses.
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Natural Resource Management in Wilderness: Challenges In Natural Resource Restoration
This course discusses the decision-making process for planning natural resource restoration in a wilderness area. It is essential that managers consider impacts to the untrammeled and natural qualities of wilderness when contemplating restoration efforts within wilderness boundaries.
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Natural Resource Management in Wilderness: Evaluating Proposals For Scientific Activity
Learn about the process of evaluating proposals to conduct scientific activity in wilderness and the decisions wilderness managers must make in order to preserve wilderness character while such activity occurs.
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Natural Resource Management in Wilderness: Fundamentals
This course presents the legal foundation for managing natural resources in wilderness and addresses the myths and realities of wilderness management.
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Park Planning 1: Principles of Park Planning
The course will present a simple model of planning that can be modified to meet a variety of community and agency needs. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning 2: Public Engagement
This course focuses on the importance of and methods for getting input from the general public. It will also help you identify which of those methods would be the best fit for your agency and when to use them in the planning process. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning 3: Assessment and Research
This course focuses on using research methods to define the existing conditions of a parks and recreation system. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning 4: Defining Your Needs
This course identifies the difference between analyzing and synthesizing information and the purpose each serves in developing strategic action plans. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning 5: Plan Development
The purpose of this course is to explore the steps and inputs to develop strategic goals and a corresponding action plan for a parks and recreation agency. Learn More$59.00 -
Park Planning Certificate
Gain a comprehensive understanding of effective park planning through five e-courses based on the five steps of community park planning. Learn More$350.00 -
Professional Development: A Look at WPA Certification and Process
This previously recorded one-hour webcast is designed for park and public agency employees who are interested in obtaining the Certified Park Professional (CPP) or Certified International Park Professional (CIPP) credential.
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Project Management for Capital Projects
This course introduces you to industry-standard project management practices, including the phases of project management and useful strategies that keep a project on track.
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Public Health Fundamentals for Park and Recreation Professionals Certificate
Promote understanding of your agency’s vital contribution to community health and wellness. This comprehensive program incorporates place-based assignments and five online courses including the Public Health & YOU courses developed in partnership with the Indiana University School of Public Health. Learn More$275.00 -
Round Robin Tournaments
In this course, you will learn when to use round-robin tournaments, how to split a tournament into separate leagues, and how to choose the size of each league. Learn MoreRegular Price: $59.00
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Roving and Informal Interpretation
Gain the skills and confidence needed to interact with visitors informally and learn how to provide them with interpretive opportunities. This course explores three types of contacts: orientation, information, and interpretation.
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Special Use Permitting for Park and Recreation Agencies
This course will help you better understand special use permits and the roles and responsibilities of event monitors.
CEU include free for a limited time!
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Strategies for Creating Large Canopied Trees in Urban Areas
Trees are as important as ever in our growing cities – the need to provide large canopied shade trees to cool cities is important. Providing adequate root volumes to allow large healthy trees to grow without infrastructure conflicts is also important.
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The First World War and the United States
The causes of World War One are complex. This course explores the social and political factors that contributed to and shaped the conflict in Europe. The initial reluctance and ultimate participation of the United States is described and placed in a cultural and political context as well.
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Working as a Park Board Member: Being Effective
Working as a Park and Recreation Board member can be challenging and rewarding. Success is measured in whether or not the Board is able to accomplish their goals. Learn MoreRegular Price: $59.00
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Working as a Park Board Member: The Basics
Learn about the importance of park and recreation boards, how the board originates and functions, and how it is structured and governed. The course also presents the challenges a board member can face and the rights and responsibilities available to them. Learn MoreRegular Price: $59.00
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WPA - Parks and Public Health Issue Mitigation: A Case Study
This course is designed for park and public agency employees who are responsible for public health and safety in parks. A smoke-free playground issue will be covered.
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Yellowstone Snowmobile Education Certificate
Learn the rules and procedures for operating a snowmobile in Yellowstone National Park. Once you have a permit, you must also complete this course and be operating a 'Best Available Technology' snowmobile to be allowed into the park. Learn MoreFree
