Applied Science and Technology: STEM Careers in Two Years
About the title: Jim runs the quality control lab at David Michael & Company, a food flavoring manufacturer. Aliah is a biomedical research technician at The Wistar Institute, a cancer research center in Philadelphia. And Tony, a production mechanic...
Paying Your Way through College
To get to college, good grades and high hopes will take a person only so far. Sooner or later the subject of tuition will come up, and no amount of wishing will make it go away. Fortunately, a little creativity and a lot of determination can pay off...
Great empires of the past : core concepts video clip library
This video clip library of 36 two-minute segments provides a concise survey of 12 history-changing empires. Each empire is given an overview segment, including a timeline graphic to place it within the context of world history, and two additional se...
Handling Anger and Frustration
Let’s face it—anger is a fact of life, an emotion everyone can relate to. But it isn’t always handled well, and if it surges out of control, the effects can be devastating. This video examines the problems arising from extreme or repressed ang...
Mobile App Research and Planning
The process of bringing a successful app to market begins long before the actual software is developed. As with any endeavor that fuses commerce and creativity, the app usually starts with a spark of inspiration and gets fleshed out through market r...
Advanced Manufacturing and Applied Engineering Technology: STEM Careers in Two Years
About the title: Lasers, robotics, computerized design and drafting—are we talking about what goes on at NASA? A particle physics lab? The kind of place that requires a Ph.D. on your resume? No, this is what students can expect to get involved in ...
Food Safety and Disease Prevention
Despite the best efforts of experts and organizations, food-borne illness outbreaks still occur. This video examines the risks facing consumers while highlighting culinary and food-handling methods for addressing those risks. Illustrating the danger...
Processes that Shape the Earth
The Earth is like a living, breathing organism. From its molten core to the upper reaches of the atmosphere, nothing is still. How was the planet formed, and what are the forces that continue to sculpt it? This program uses animated topographical ma...
Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Beginning with the history of astronomy (Ptolemy, Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Galileo), this program considers the mathematics of motion (velocity, acceleration); gravity (Kepler’s discoveries, Newton’s laws, center of gravity, astronomical unit...
Telephone Customer Service
We’ve all experienced it—the frustration of dealing with a company or organization over the telephone. Being put on hold or transferred again and again, often without finding an answer or solution, is enough to drive anyone crazy. Now, switch pl...