Early Responders Distance Learning Center

ERDLC provides services to the emergency response community and beyond at three basic levels: Education and Training, Consultation and Organizational Development, and Applied Research and Evaluation.

Education and Training [ Go To Section ]

ERDLC creates and administers accredited courses for the emergency response community on preparing and responding to WMD/terrorist incidents with a specialized focus on psychological consequences.

Course topics include:

Psychological Consequences of Terrorism
Panic Reactions and Mitigation
Crisis and Risk Communication and Management

Consultation and Organizational Development [ Go To Section ]

As behavioral experts for your organizational development, ERDLC provides both customized and off-the-shelf programs that provide authoritative and comprehensive answers to your individual and team leadership questions.

Areas of expertise include:

Maximizing Talent to Achieve
Selecting People
Developing Teams

Applied Research and Evaluation [ Go To Section ]

ERDLC is committed to evaluating the overall effectiveness and impacts of its courses on student learning. At the more basic level this is done through end-of-course assessment of student achievement. At the more complex level, this is done through the evaluation of individual student learning styles in order to create a unique adaptive learning experience.

Additional areas of applied research include:

e-learning Assessment
Emergency Responder Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities,
Attitudes and Emotional Competencies
Team and Group Stress Awareness and Mitigation