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Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive
Learn scientifically proven techniques for raising healthy, happy, and intelligent children in this course taught by a world-renowned child development expert.
The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
Enhance the stories you tell every day in your personal and professional life by learning the methods experienced storytellers use to create and tell memorable tales.
Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids
Help your child form friendships, develop self-confidence, and cope with emotions with this course taught by a renowned psychologist.
How to Become a SuperStar Student
Give your student critical skills for success in school with advice on everything from homework and class participation to group presentations and preparing for tests.
What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution
Join a noted field biologist to survey how the theory of evolution has evolved.
The Scientific Wonder of Birds
Discover the remarkable science of bird life-taught by a biologist and expert birder-and grasp the astonishing features of avian physiology, biology, intelligence, and behavior across the globe.
Understanding Your Inner Genius
We are all a guru in our own way. Discover your own inner guru as we reveal what scientists have discovered through a fascinating study on intelligence.
The Psychology of Performance: How to Be Your Best in Life
Learn how to use performance psychology and improve your mental, emotional, and physical game.
Learning Java Programming
In Learning Java Programming, learn how to write computer programs in Java and how everyday programmers use this language to build desktop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and mobile applications for Android devices. Software engineer and expert Java programmer Paulo Dichone’s 36 hands-on lessons reveal not just how Java works, but some of the many insider tips and tricks programmers use to create and solve problems.
How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems
Discover the unique ways some countries foster student achievement-and the circumstances that cause others to fall short.
Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species
Discover why the world belongs to insects, in this 24-lecture course dedicated to one of Earth’s most populous and vital creatures.
How Memory Works and Why Your Brain Remembers Wrong
In 12 lectures presented by an expert in developmental psychology, discover why our memories are so often faulty—and why that’s a feature rather than a failure.
12 Revolutionary Discoveries That Could Change Everything
Investigate the world around us with the mind of a scientist in 12 compelling lectures on recent scientific discoveries.
How to Raise Lifelong Learners
How can you encourage and preserve your child’s natural desire to learn? Look no further than the nine lessons of How to Raise Lifelong Learners. In this course, you will acquire the knowledge, tools, and guidance you need to raise intellectually curious and engaged lifelong learners, regardless of whether you intend to teach at home or send them to school. Dig into the details and discover how you can create an intellectually stimulating environment for small children, teach fundamental learning skills, build emotional and creative intelligence, motivate struggling students, communicate effectively with teens, and more.
Theories of Human Development
What happens to us in childhood plays a key role in who we are and how our relationships unfold as adults. Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces you to six theories that have had the greatest influence on the study of human development.
Myth in Human History
Discover the truths hidden within the world's most enduring myths in the entertaining and illuminating Myth in Human History. Delivered by engaging storyteller and award-winning Professor Grant L. Voth, these 36 lectures are a comprehensive survey of great myths and the diverse cultures behind them. Taking you from the islands of ancient Greece and Japan to the plains of North America and Africa to the shores of New Zealand and Great Britain, this course will have you looking at—and understanding—mythology in startling new ways.
Identity in the Age of Ancestral DNA
Who do you think you are? In the 12 fascinating lessons of Identity in the Age of Ancestral DNA, Anita Foeman, PhD, Professor of Communication and Media, and founder and primary investigator of the DNA Discussion Project at West Chester University, takes us behind the scenes to examine what really happens when individuals receive their personal DNA ancestry results. By learning about their individual and family reactions, we learn more about our own identity narratives as well.
Sensation, Perception, and the Aging Process
Understand how the process of aging will affect your experience of reality in this highly informative and useful course by an award-winning professor of psychology.
In the Footsteps of Vincent van Gogh
Strap on virtual shoes and go for an immersive walk through the works of a master.
Understanding Economics: Game Theory
Taught by Professor Jay R. Corrigan, an award-winning teacher at Kenyon College, this course introduces you to game theory, which is the study of how people make strategic decisions in business, commerce, and a host of other activities. Focusing on the fundamentals, Professor Corrigan explains the principles of games and the best strategies, while opening your eyes to the games going on all around you.
Shocking Psychological Studies and the Lessons They Teach
Consider the significance—and the ethical failings—of several, impactful 20th-century psychological studies that continue to influence our knowledge of human behavior.
Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology
An expert in epigenetics explains the deep chemistry of life.
The Italian Renaissance
Reveal the secrets behind the Italian Renaissance—the most successful artistic and intellectual explosion the world has ever seen—in this comprehensive introduction to the art, architecture, history, and politics of this extraordinary era.
After the Plague
With Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as your portal into a medieval Europe in the throes of the disease, explore how people across the continent reckoned with and responded to the new political, economic, and social realities that emerged during the Black Death.
Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works
From Shakespeare to Harry Potter and beyond, trace the history of book banning and censorship in the English-speaking world and see why it continues today.
Jesus and the Gospels
Encounter Jesus as we know him from the composite literary portrait drawn for us by canonical gospels and apocryphal narratives in this course by award-winning author and Professor Luke Timothy Johnson.
Wondrium Insights: Achieve Your Potential
Sit at the table with five incredible individuals who have accomplished the impossible and learn the insights and hard-won secrets to their success.
Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World
Learn about transformative scientific discoveries that have altered history in this brilliant and fascinating course by an award-winning historian of science.
Algebra I
Learn or review all the concepts of first-year algebra-including variables, order of operations, and functions-with these lectures taught by a Professor of Mathematics.
18: Parenting with Balance
From: How to Become a SuperStar Student
Professor Geisen offers you candid advice on being the best parent you can be-all from the perspective of his role as a teacher. You'll find tips and exercises to ensure that you're inspiring, not forcing, your child to learn and live a responsible life.
07: Which Style of Parenting Is Best?
From: Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive
Over time, parents develop a style of interacting with their children that drives moment-to-moment decisions and the children's overall development. Here, the professor presents research conducted on parenting styles and what it suggests about how your own style can affect your child's behavior, social and cognitive development, and even long-term happiness....
23: Java Inheritance: Overriding Parent Methods
From: Learning Java Programming
Inheritance in Java involves the creation of a hierarchy of classes that inherit the behaviors of other classes. Discover how to override behaviors of the parent class (the super class) so that your subclass implements its own version of that behavior.
06: Emergence and World—Parent Creation Myths
From: Myth in Human History
Broaden your grasp of creation myths by studying two more variations. The first is a Navajo example of an emergence myth, in which creatures journey to Earth through underground worlds. The second is a Maori version of the world-parent myth, where a parental unity breaks apart into separate individuals.
23: How to Be a Great Sport Parent
From: The Psychology of Performance: How to Be Your Best in Life
Whether parents want to help their children develop into successful achievers in sports, art, music, or life, it's important to remember that everything you say and do matters. Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes sports parents make-words and actions that work against your child's goals and your own-and what you can say that your child always needs to hear....
15: How Parents Shape Student Outcomes
From: How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems
Explore how parental involvement aligns with socioeconomic status and influences student achievement and education worldwide. See the role "cram schools" in Korea and other private tutoring play in education and the importance of early childhood education on child literacy. Finally, learn how the Japanese system fosters ties between schools and employers....
20: The Evolution of Sex and Parenting
From: What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution
Darwin devised his theory of sexual selection to explain many traits that can’t be understood through natural selection alone—from the peacock’s gaudy tail to the elaborate constructions of bowerbirds. Probe deeper to discover why sexual reproduction exists at all, what causes individuals to develop into males versus females, and why some males take on the role of raising the young.
21: Did You Know… That What Your Parents Ate Can Have Lifelong Effects on Your Health?
From: Did You Know?
Your parents’ diet during pregnancy can have changed your genetics in ways that altered the course of your entire life. Explore how the fascinating Developmental Origins hypothesis works with a look at the terrible Dutch famine of 1944–1945.
04: How Animals Raise Their Young
From: Zoology: Understanding the Animal World
Why is parenting so essential to a species' survival? Why do some animals have different parenting styles? Here, explore different parenting styles in everything from corals to salmon to humans. Then, encounter one of the most unique examples of parental care in mammals: the golden lion tamarin....
23: Becoming a Parent-Scientist
From: Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive
By this point in the course, you've learned to be a good consumer of science. Here, you're encouraged to be a producer of science. Consider research you can conduct with your own family and areas where data collection can determine whether an activity is leading to a desired outcome, such as improved grades or attitude.
11: Parent as Teacher-Homework and Beyond
From: Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive
Should you let your child struggle with his homework? Should you allow frequent breaks during assignments? Delve into four research-based tips for helping children successfully complete their homework while actually learning the material, including "scaffolding" for the content and creating an environment suited to studying.
30: Cloning and Identity
From: Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
Modern technology has transformed procreation, birth, and parenting. Given the different donor and surrogate options, it's perfectly possible to have a child with five biologically contributing parents. What are the implications of this revolution, especially if human cloning becomes the next new option?...
24: Java Inheritance: Invoking Parent Methods
From: Learning Java Programming
What happens when you still want to invoke your superclass’s method inside of a subclass?Dichone teaches you how to do just that in this second lesson on Java inheritance that’s all about the power of the super keyword.
34: Evolutionary Psychology-War, Family, Food
From: Psychology of Human Behavior
This lecture examines the ways evolutionary psychology can help explain some of the problems with aggression, parenting, and overeating in today's world....
12: Parental Care: Bird Family and Friends
From: The Scientific Wonder of Birds
Close with a look at the hatching process and the contrasting conditions for altricial chicks (born naked and helpless) versus precocial chicks (born ready to leave the nest). Delve into how birds feed their young, and the process of educating fledglings for life in the wild. Study the adaptations of siblicide (nestlings killing each other), unmated young who help raise broods, and avian communal breeding.
08: How Parents’ Trauma Affects Future Children
From: 12 Revolutionary Discoveries That Could Change Everything
Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) inheritable? If you’re exposed to trauma, can you pass that along to your children? In this lecture, researchers study traumas ranging from the Holocaust to 9/11 and examine cortisol levels in children. It turns out: We can feel environmental stress in our genes.
13: Fears for Our Kids
From: Understanding and Overcoming Fear
Could our children today be “too soft?” Are parents today overprotective or not protective enough? Explore how parenting attitudes about fear have evolved over the last century, and what research has revealed about the fears, anxieties, and well-being of children today.
12: Helping Your Children Achieve Success
From: How to Become a SuperStar Student
This final lecture gives concrete suggestions to parents about helping their children plan for the years after high school. College admission procedures and college financing are discussed. Resources are described for parents to make college success more likely for their sons or daughters. The lecture ends with commonsense suggestions to the parent for making their children's first year of college a success.
07: Screen Time’s Impact on Kids
From: How Digital Technology Shapes Us
Does increased screen time enrich or impoverish children’s environments and how are their emotions influenced by digital media? You might be surprised to learn that “it depends”—just like almost every other aspect of parenting. Explore the many factors scientists are studying to help answer these crucial questions.
06: Stress and Growth-Echoes from the Womb
From: Stress and Your Body
The first of two lectures on stress and child development takes you inside prenatal and postnatal life. Using two extraordinary examples, Professor Sapolsky reveals the ways a fetus can respond to the environmental stressors of its mother, and how different parenting styles can affect the stress levels of young children.
10: How Friends Keep You Well
From: The Power of Mind over Body
Explore the health benefits that come with having quality relationships. Examine what loneliness can do to our minds, bodies, and even DNA. And investigate how to target the problem of loneliness across all stages of life with techniques that range from compassionate parenting to volunteer programs for the elderly.
04: Building Authentic Self-Esteem
From: Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids
All the parental praise and cheerleading in the world won't make a child develop authentic self-esteem. Discover the important developmental changes that occur in children's self-concepts over time, and how parents can support self-esteem at each stage. Then, take an in-depth look at the core components of authentic self-esteem at any age.
30: Woolf—"To the Lighthouse"
From: Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature
With "To the Lighthouse," we turn to the most personal novel in the course. In it, Virginia Woolf conjures a fictionalized representation of her parents' marriage, and creates one of the most memorable characters in British novels, Mrs. Ramsay. Through this work, Woolf raises a potent question: Can we ever truly know our parents as people?
15: DNA in Identification-Forensics
From: Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, hundreds of children were separated from their parents. When several couples were claiming one baby as their own, DNA testing enabled doctors to reunite the real parents with their baby. This kind of testing is frequently used in crime-solving today.
07: Book II-Augustine Grows Up
From: St. Augustine's Confessions
In Book II, Augustine explains how his parents dealt with him growing into a man. Combining the first part of Book II with what Augustine tells us about his schooling in Book I, we can conclude that teenage Augustine's sinfulness has actually been furthered by his teachers and parents because they are determined that he become rich and famous.
07: What Helps Struggling Learners
From: How to Raise Lifelong Learners
Despite our best efforts, some children run into learning problems. So what can parents do to help? Examine various learning barriers and uncover prospective solutions to them. Discover how you as a parent can motivate late bloomers and underachievers, invigorate dull curricula, and deal with bullying when it occurs.
01: Self-Control-From Tummy Time to Tae Kwon Do
From: Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive
Start by considering physical activities that can contribute to mental development; for instance, the value of getting kids involved in activities that promote self-awareness and self-control such as tae kwon do or yoga. Learn principles of science that should be kept in mind when sifting through the flood of available advice and information about parenting.
05: Nurturing the Young Genius
From: Understanding Your Inner Genius
How can teachers and parents recognize talent in even the youngest of children? Certainly, an entire industry exists to support parents in their quest to create little geniuses. But does any of it really work? What outdated myths do we continue to hold onto? Learn what the latest research shows about the benefits and limitations of IQ tests for students, as well as the skills that really can predict success in school and in life—skills that show up as early as kindergarten.
10: The Development of EQ
From: Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence
Research has shown that while genetic makeup does play a role in our EQ, it also is significantly impacted by how we were parented and socialized as a young child. But even if childhood was not ideal and our parents modeled very poor EQ skills, see how it is always possible to improve EQ now through purposeful training....
20: Beauvoir on Raising Children Authentically
From: Existentialism and the Authentic Life
Beauvoir not only asked how to live in an absurd world, but how to raise children in that world—young people who had no role in creating the world they find themselves in. Explore the many layers of childhood from Beauvoir’s point of view and learn how authentic parenting can help children creatively seize possibilities for their own lives, as well as doing something about the suffering of others.
13: Dividing DNA Between Dividing Cells
From: Biology: The Science of Life
Moving from the molecular level to the level of cells and organisms, this lecture addresses the question: When a new being is produced, how does it acquire DNA from its parents?
14: Wisconsin v. Yoder
From: Liberty on Trial in America: Cases That Defined Freedom
In the 1960s, the Amish had several disagreements with the state concerning their children’s education. But most important, they did not believe their children should be required to attend school past the age of 16. Explore the conflicting views and goals of these parents, schools, and state. Learn how the issue made it to the Supreme Court, which conflicting liberties were considered, and why the Court decided in favor of the parents.
16: Working with Teachers
From: How to Become a SuperStar Student
Professor Geisen reveals the two foundations of a solid parent-teacher relationship, offers tips to improve communication, and provides options for effectively handling problems and complaints.
04: Railways and Steamships
From: Victorian Britain
Where were the first railways in Britain-and hence the world-built? What was the "parent" technology from which they were derived? And what other advances in transport did they help lead to?...
11: Helping Your Children Learn
From: How to Become a SuperStar Student
This lecture introduces parents to factors that contribute to high school success. The lecture discusses the language of learning and how to promote student motivation. Finally, specific keys to academic success are outlined. A review is given of important study habits.
10: Trouble in School
From: Medical School for Everyone: Pediatrics Grand Rounds
What role can (and should) pediatricians play when a child isn't doing well in school? Discover how doctors ferret out clues from kids unwilling (or embarrassed) to talk, and see how they work with parents and teachers to accommodate and alleviate scholastic stresses....
16: Elizabeth Ann Seton: Convert and Caretaker
From: The Surprising Lives of Christian Saints
As a widow and Catholic convert, Elizabeth Ann Seton established a women’s religious community in Maryland, the Sisters of Charity. Today, both the Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church recognize her as the patron saint of widows, deaths of children and parents, and problematic in-laws.
15: Attachment Bonds from Infancy to Adulthood
From: Introduction to Psychology
Continue your study of human development, beginning with the way infants form attachments in the first few weeks of life. Explore the relationship between children and their parents, and the role of the environment on development in childhood and adolescence.
08: Getting the Most out of Checkups
From: Medical School for Everyone: Pediatrics Grand Rounds
In this lecture, learn the inner workings of routine pediatric checkups. Dr. Benaroch reviews standard childhood growth and development; discusses how screening tests, chart reviews, standard examinations, and "anticipatory guidance" work; and offers insights to help parents get the most out of their child's next scheduled checkup....
16: The Kepler Spacecraft's Planets
From: Life in Our Universe
The Kepler mission is changing everything we know about extrasolar planets. Learn how this supersensitive-imaging instrument works to monitor 157,000 stars continuously for years and what it has uncovered since launching in 2009. But first, review the transit effect created when a parent star crosses its orbiting planet.
14: Guardian's Day
From: Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases
How does a doctor get from the common complaint of constipation to a diagnosis of something much more dangerous? In solving this medical riddle, you'll learn about a particular medical epidemic so powerful and prevalent that, in one county in Kentucky, it's deprived many children of their parents.
12: Pain as a Warning Sign
From: Medical School for Everyone: Pediatrics Grand Rounds
Some pain is fleeting. Some pain should make parents worry. Discover how different specialists (including orthopedists, rheumatologists, oncologists, and psychiatrists) think about and approach pain in children. Then, find out how doctors break the news of a life-changing diagnosis to a child and his or her family....
06: Learning That Builds Character
From: How to Raise Lifelong Learners
How can parents encourage learning beyond the school desk? And what should this learning even consist of? This lesson will provide you with practical tools to facilitate non-academic learning outside of the classroom. Explore a range of book recommendations, memory games, creative activities, and even chores you can implement at home.
13: Managing Your Child's Education
From: How to Become a SuperStar Student
The most important teacher in a student's life: his or her parents. Professor Geisen shows you how to become a true learner, why most learning happens outside the classroom, and how you can adapt to the continually changing landscape of 21st-century education.
13: Better Sleep for the Whole Family
From: Medical School for Everyone: Pediatrics Grand Rounds
Focus on helping children of any age (and their parents) get a good night's sleep. You'll learn how to establish healthy sleep associations with children, go inside sleep issues like narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and learn how to help "reset" a child's body clock to get better sleep....
20: Finding Planets with Direct Imaging
From: The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know
Turn to the most obvious way to find exoplanets: direct imaging. Explore the optics of telescopes to learn why spotting an exoplanet next to its parent star is so difficult. Then see how this limitation has been overcome in a handful of cases....
19: Maria Montessori at Home for Young Children
From: Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive
In a Montessori classroom, toddlers are encouraged to follow their natural learning tendencies by being active explorers. They're also given some responsibility for maintaining an orderly space. Here, the professor unpacks the evidence indicating this approach can boost mental and physical development; then, he demonstrates how parents can use Montessori methods at home.
01: Developing Your Child's Emotional Intelligence
From: Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids
Parents can play a major role in helping or hindering children's development of emotional regulation skills. Consider the factors that make emotion regulation difficult for kids and learn techniques for teaching your children to understand and cope with their feelings, both in a "meltdown" situation and on an ongoing everyday basis....
03: The Turn toward Art
From: In the Footsteps of Vincent van Gogh
Discover how Van Gogh makes an abrupt turn in his life trajectory and moves from ministry and missionary work to a life in art, aided by two influential men in his family. You will also begin to understand how difficulties with his parents and scandals with women will affect him.
18: The Power of Love
From: The Science of Natural Healing
This lecture poses the question, "Do personal relationships affect health?" Review the extensive clinical research correlating supportive parental, spousal, and social relationships-as well as optimism-with more favorable outcomes for major diseases. Consider the evidence for social connections as treatment for illness and as key ingredients of good health.
