Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Module 1: Canine Perception and Ability

    • Introduction
  • 3

    Sight

    • Dogs see the world differently

    • Test your knowledge 1

    • Practical Exercise 1

    • READING: Miller PE, Murphy CJ (1995)

  • 4

    Hearing

    • Oh my, what big ears you have!

    • Test your knowledge 2

    • READING: Heffner, H. E. (1983)
  • 5

    Smell: the primary sense

  • 6

    A world of scent

    • Percieving the world through olfaction

    • Test your knowledge 5

    • How do dogs smell - TED talk by Alexandra Horowitz

    • Practical Exercise 2

    • READING: Krestel, Passe, Smith, Jonsson (1984)

    • READING: Walker et.al. (2006)

    • READING: Fischer-Tenhagen, Heuwieser (2013)
  • 7

    Applying the knowledge of physiology to training

    • Training with understanding

    • Test your knowledge 6

    • READING: Gazit, Terkel (2003)

    • Recommended books
  • 8

    Module 2: Rewards, Motivation and Training

    • Introduction
  • 9

    Instinctive behaviour and learning

  • 10

    Motivation

    • What Motivates your dog?

    • Preference Testing

    • Practical Exercise: Preference Testing

    • Engagement training

    • Practical exercise: Engage/play with your dog

    • Test your knowledge 3
  • 11

    Rewards

    • Rewards

    • Test your knowledge 4
  • 12

    Training

    • Psychology of Dog Training

    • Classical Conditioning

    • Operant Conditioning

    • Practical Exercise: Who's training who?

    • Test your knowledge 5

    • Shaping Behaviours

    • Shaping

    • Practical Exercise: Shaping behaviours

    • Test your knowledge 6

    • Training for Outcomes

    • Test your knowledge 7

    • READING: Marshall-Pescini et.al. 2008

    • READING: Demant et.al. 2011

    • READING: Marschark and Baenninger 2002

    • READING: Meyer and Ladewig 2007
  • 13

    Module 3: Scent Dynamics

    • Introduction
  • 14

    What is Scent?

    • What effects Scent?

      FREE PREVIEW

    • How scent can fill a room

    • Time and Concentration

    • Particle dispersion over time

    • Test your Knowledge 1

    • READING: Steen and Wilsson 1990

    • READING: Hepper and Wells 2005
  • 15

    Environment and atmosphere

    • What Climate?

    • How air moves around tufted grass

    • Time of day

    • Particle dispersion over time

    • Test your Knowledge 2

    • Practical exercise: Temperature gradients
  • 16

    Airflow

    • Air movement

    • Eddies and curl-over over obstace

    • Eddies and pooling around a pipe

    • Test your Knowledge 3
  • 17

    Scent Movement

    • Scent dispersion

    • Dog Working a scent cone

    • Scent Cones

    • Test your Knowledge 4

    • Practical Exercise: Bubble game

    • READING: John H Clark (no date)

    • READING: Sustainable Energy Authority Victoria (no date)
  • 18

    Thermal Movement

    • How temperature moves scent

    • Test your Knowledge 5
  • 19

    Module 4: Tracking

    • Introduction
  • 20

    Why Tracking?

  • 21

    Tracking Scent Science

    • What does a human smell like?

    • Practical Exercise 2

      FREE PREVIEW

    • Surface Transitions - Practical Exercise 2

    • Decomposition of a track

    • READING: Hepper, P. G., & Wells, D. L. (2005).

  • 22

    Elements of a track

    • The 8 elements of a track

    • A Tracklayer rewarding the dog

    • Articles

    • Practical Exercise 3

    • Training the Article Indication - Practical Exercise 3

    • The Article Game - Basic version

    • Troubleshooting the elements

    • Practical Exercise 4
  • 23

    Reading your dog

    • How dogs work a track

    • Practical Exercise 5

    • Free Tracking - Practical Exercise 5

    • Practical Exercise 6

    • Practical Exercise 7

    • Car Pickup - Practical Exercise 7

    • READING: Albuquerque, N., Guo, K., Wilkinson, A., Savalli, C., Otta, E., & Mills, D. (2016).

  • 24

    Summary

    • The final word on Tracking

    • Course complete!

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