Online courses are conducted entirely over the internet. Presenters and attendees participate directly from their computers, through a website that allows students to watch video presentations, participate in online discussions by typing in ideas and comments, and join in live video events that allow questions and answers in real time.

Like traditional face-to-face courses, online courses provide presentations by leading experts, along with interactive workshops, discussion forums, networking opportunities, and many other resources such as a library of readings on important topics for the course.

An online course is accessible using any standard web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) and you may log in and participate at any time that fits your schedule, day or night.

Anyone interested in the powerful Nurtured Heart Approach developed by Howard Glasser for working with difficult children will find this course inspiring and valuable. This course extends the principles of Howard’s seminal work to support the greatness of not only challenging children, but all children. If your work involves interaction with children, this course is for you:

• Therapists
• Counselors
• Educators
• Social Workers
• Parents

The course will be given over 6 weeks, from September 20 through October 28, 2010. The Thursday live meetings will be held at 5:30 pm Pacific/7:30 pm Central/6:30 pm Mountain/8:30 pm Eastern time.

The course fee is $425. This fee is reduced to $375 for the end-of summer registrations (before September 6, 2010).

During the six-week course, recorded seminars from Howard Glasser will be presented on Mondays. Live, interactive sessions with Howard Glasser will be held on Thursday evenings.

During the week, students will participate in online discussions and gain experience through a real-world implementation of this inspiring approach .Collaborative online discussions among students and with Howard Glasser and his course assistant will be held throughout the course.

A few days before the course site opens (September 13), you will receive an email with the URL (internet address) for the course website, and your login ID and password.

These notices, and all announcements about the course, will come from this email address: sqldba@icohere.com. In order to prevent these notices going to your spam mailbox, we suggest placing this e-mail address in your e-mail address book. We ask, however, that you do not send any email to this address, because it will simply disappear into cyberspace.

Here are some estimates of how long the course events will take over the course of the six weeks:

• The six recorded course presentations last for approximately 45 to 60 minutes each.
• The six live course sessions will last for approximately 60 to 90 minutes each.
• We highly recommend an additional hour of participation each week to optimize your online learning experience and make sure you can receive the 15 CEUs. Suggested additional experiences might include posting comments in the online discussions, responding to the posts of others, and reading the rich materials that Howard will provide in the site library.

All participants will have full access to the course website for 30 days following the end of the course, which includes all presentation archives and recordings, discussion threads, video recordings, library resources, and other tools.