In its simplest form, a brand is a noun. It is the name attached to a product or service. However, upon close inspection, a brand represents many more intangible aspects of a product or service: a collection of feelings and perceptions about quality, image, lifestyle and status. It creates in the mind of customers and prospects the perception that there is no product or service on the market that is quite like yours. In short, a brand offers the customer a guarantee and then delivers on it.

The Circuits and Electronics course introduces the fundamentals of the lumped circuit abstraction. Topics covered include: resistive elements and networks; independent and dependent sources; switches and MOS transistors; digital abstraction; amplifiers; energy storage elements; dynamics of first- and second-order networks; design in the time and frequency domains; and analog and digital circuits and applications. This course includes 26 video lectures.

A Business Plan is a document that summarizes the financial and operational objectives of a business.  It contains the detailed plans and budgets that show how the objectives are to be realized.  This written guide to starting and running your business successfully is essential.  It will encourage loans, promote growth, and provide a map for you to follow.  The Business Plan is a vital first step for anyone starting a business.

In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Telescopes, Interferometers, Particle Accelerators, Mass Spectrometers, Red Sunsets, Blue Skies, and more. This course includes 36 video lectures.

Lee Brimelow is the man behind these great video tutorials on the use of the Flash format in the world of video production. The tutorials consist of using Flash FLV files in video production, adding contextual menus to your videos, creating a Flash-based video player and much more! The videos cover Video Basics, 3D Logo Animation, Creating Random Motion, Flash XML, Sound Driven Animation, Flash MP3 Player, and more.  In total there are 44 tutorials. 

The Introduction To Biology course includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Biological function at the molecular level is particularly emphasized and covers the structure and regulation of genes, as well as, the structure and synthesis of proteins, how these molecules are integrated into cells, and how these cells are integrated into multicellular systems and organisms. The course includes 34 video lectures and 1 audio lecture.

This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law; basics of legal research; legal citations; how to use LexisNexis®; the 1976 Copyright Act; copyright as applied to music, computers, broadcasting, and education; fair use; Napster®, Grokster®, and Peer-to-Peer file-sharing; Library Access to Music Project; The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act; DVDs and encryption; software licensing; the GNU® General Public License and free software. This course includes 4 video lectures.

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are exposed to the range of theoretical perspectives including biological, evolutionary, cognitive, and psychoanalytic. One of the best aspects of Psychology is that you are the subject matter. The course includes 22 audio lectures.

How can we harness the emerging forms of interactive media to enhance the learning process? Professor Miyagawa and prominent guest speakers will explore a broad range of issues on new media and learning - technical, social, and business. Concrete examples of use of media will be presented as case studies. One major theme, though not the only one, is that today's youth, influenced by video games and other emerging interactive media forms, are acquiring a fundamentally different attitude towards media. Media is, for them, not something to be consumed, but also to be created. The course includes 14 video lectures.

Whether you want to organize your records, maintain departmental information, or coordinate projects, an Access 2000 database provides the structure and flexibility you need. You can store all kinds of information in an Access 2000 database, use queries to analyze the data, and create professional reports with customized layout and graphics. Using the built-in features of Access 2000, you can display information from the database on the Web and individuals can input data into a database from the Web. In fact, individuals can build a database collaboratively with other people all over the country using Data Access Pages.

The Microsoft Excel 2000 course offers an introduction to Microsoft Excel 2000. Microsoft Excel 2000 gives you the opportunity to learn and strengthen skills as you gather data, create worksheets, analyze and chart the results, and integrate your findings into reports and assignments. This course shows you how Excel 2000’s features help you to work better and teach better. Illustrations and steps written in plain language help you to gather and enter data, format data, work with numbers, formulas, and functions, use proofing tools, emphasize your point with charts, put it all together.

With PowerPoint 2000, you use graphics, text, movies, sounds, and the Internet to share information on any topic and make dynamic presentations. Using PowerPoint 2000 templates, you can quickly and easily create presentations for many purposes, including lectures, research reports, meeting handouts and agendas, speaker introductions, and flyers. This course will help you create and organize presentations by assisting in developing presentation outlines and selecting various slide layouts.

This course offers an introduction to Microsoft Word 2000. Word 2000 provides an easy way to create letters, handouts, worksheets, student papers, and other printed documents, and also makes it easy to save your documents to the Web or send them through e-mail. Some of Word 2000’s new features also make it an excellent tool for collaboration and for teaching and learning foreign languages.

Over ten million people each year consider starting a business. As a result, more than three million new small businesses are started annually.  This free online course was created by the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to help prospective entrepreneurs better understand the basics about starting a small business.  The self-paced course is easy to use and understand.  It will take about 30 minutes to complete. 

Today's jobs require computer keyboard skills which demand typing speed and accuracy.  Being fast on the keyboard is of no value if what you type is not accurate.  Typing speed and accuracy suffers when you have to remove your eyes from what you are reading to hunt and peck your way through the next sentence.  Due to the fact that this course is game-based, you'll not only improve your typing, but you'll have fun in the process.

The Power of Positive Parenting