This page hosts training materials associated with the Northern Academy's Best Practices in Emergency Response (ER) training. This hands-on, Safety Organized Practice (SOP)-based class offers participants advanced training in the use of best practices designed to enhance family engagement and balanced assessments during Child Welfare ER investigation, assessment and front end intervention services to improve outcomes and long-term safety for children.

This course formatting guide is designed to help you set up your online course. It steps through best practices for planning, video and captions, VLE course layout, formatting text, side formatting, images and tables, numbering rules and abbreviations and links.

This course is a fast-paced introduction to the C and C++ programming languages, with an emphasis on good programming practices and how to be an effective programmer in these languages. Topics include object-oriented programming, memory management, advantages of C and C++, optimization, and others. Students are given weekly coding assignments and a final project to hone their skills. Recommended for programmers with some background and experience in other languages.
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

Technology use in education provides a wealth of opportunities for enhancing the student experience. It supports betterness goals for both the student and the educational institution providing the learning experience. However, the inclusion of technology-based pedagogies in structured learning experience has the potential to cause harm if its use is unrestrained. This three-hour professional development course introduces the concepts of digital wellness and entanglement, and explores the concept of restrained entanglement as an issue of best practice in instructional design.

This resource provides access to the Northern California Training Academy's extensive list of literature reviews related to child welfare practice.

This resource provides access to each edition of the Northern California Training Academy's child welfare practice journal Reaching Out.

This is a course description and outline for an e-learning training on the Shared Core Practice Model being developed by the UCCF (University Consortium for Children and Families).

This guide shows you how to write for the internet (tone of voice, clarity, and so on) and sets out a standard style (capitalisation, hyphens, and so on). Using this style guide makes courses consistent, professional and easier for students to follow.

This quick guide will help you to hone your online content with tips you can easily add to your lecturing. Our video, Writing for MOOCs (massive open online courses), is useful for any asynchronous online course. All of the course content can be implemented with a plus-one approach. Make one change at a time to your course writing and measure the difference it makes for your students!