If you do not find a CEED online course that meets your needs, here are additional organizations that offer online courses and other early childhood online educational opportunities that you may want to explore.

Children, Youth, & Family Consortium's Children's Mental Health Program

The Children's Mental Health Program has published a Children's Mental Health Case Study. The purpose of the case is to teach students and professionals to utilize theory in making practice decisions with children. Funded by the University's Technology Enhanced Learning Grant Program, the case guides users through a story about a boy experiencing mental health needs and includes related research and an interactive quiz. The story and questions encourage users to consider the experiences of the boy and his family within a developmental, ecological lens. The case uses an interdisciplinary, ecological, and developmental perspective to the study of children's mental health.

Instructors may use the case as part of class discussion or require it as an independent assignment. Contact Jessica Barnes with questions at roba0018@umn.edu.

Center for Inclusive Child Care (CICC)

The mission of the Center for Inclusive Child Care is to create, promote, and support pathways to successful inclusive care for all children. CICC has online self-study courses available on a variety of topics of interest to parents and professionals.

Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota

Of interest to professionals and graduate students interested in working with parents and families:

The University of Minnesota offers graduate level parent education courses online. The parent education courses are graduate level and offered in sequence beginning June of each year. The instructors and students are immediately actively engaged together and build relationships as they complete the sequence of courses. This program prepares parent educators to work in Minnesota's Early Childhood Family  Education (ECFE) programs and other Minnesota settings in other states and countries.

For more information about the online parent education courses and licensure program, visit the Curriculum and Instruction Parent and family education licensure web page.

Digital Campus

Gateway for online learning and non-credit enrichment programs at the University of Minnesota.

Eager to Learn

Eager to Learn is an internet-based learning program for people who care for young children. Through online interactive classes, explore opportunities for parents to learn new information and resources as well as share their knowledge and experiences with other parents, all from the warmth of their own home.

Healthy Child Care America

Free course offered via Healthy Child Care America on Reducing the Risk of SIDS in Child Care for child care providers, grandparents, health care professionals, parents, babysitters, and relatives. Child care providers can receive 1.0 contact hours for completion (dependent on specific state SIDS in-service requirements).

Minnesota Department of Education

On the Minnesota Department of Health’s Infant Mortality Reduction web page you will find links to two online courses, one for nurses with CEUs provided and one for child care providers with an education certificate from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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