The University of North Texas offers, as a community service, a series of online continuing education tutorials. Lifelong Education @ Desktop courses meet an urgent need in the professional community: high-quality, Internet-delivered continuing education that is so economical you can train 100% of your staff!

Lifelong Education @ Desktop online courses help librarians and library staff, volunteer managers, rehabilitation professionals, and business people deal with the challenges that are a part of their daily work lives. Thousands of staff have already taken advantage of tutorials like Managing Difficult Patrons with Confidence!, Providing Excellent Customer Service in a Multicultural Environment, Copyright Basics for Libraries and others.

The cost of Lifelong Education @ Desktop tutorials is nominal. Combined with the savings in travel and lost productivity inherent in traditional face to face training, Lifelong Education @ Desktop courses are one of the best values in continuing education available today. Providing these courses only requires a few simple steps.

Lifelong Education @ Desktop courses:

• Are hosted on UNT servers using the nationally known WebCT Vista learning management system, allowing you to track and document student progress and completion;
• May be taken as a group or individually;
• Are developed by recognized subject matter experts;
• Are the result of needs assessment surveys that gather input from a broad range of administrators, staff and supporters, in various institutional sizes and locales;
• Require from one to two hours to eight weeks to complete and offer students the flexibility to work at their own pace and schedule;
• Are engaging and interactive, with multimedia elements and high production values.
• For a list of available courses and registration information, go to Courses on the navigation bar.