What is RAiSE?
Horse owners care about their horse's daily needs, like providing shelter, clean water, and a nutritious diet, but we are also responsible for our horse’s mental well-being. However, it may be difficult to accurately recognize the emotional state or affective state of our horses. RAiSE (Recognizing Affective States in Equine) was developed to assist horse owners and enthusiasts in understanding their horse’s emotions. RAiSE is a self-paced, interactive online course designed to help you understand the importance of affective states to horse's daily lives, how they express their emotions, better recognize abnormal states and pain, and how to make management adjustments based on affective states.
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Horse owners with a better understanding of their horse’s affective states, can improve their management and ultimately improve the overall well-being and lives of their horse. The course utilizes real-life examples through photos and videos in a variety of settings to provide examples to practice interpreting affective states.
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The development of RAiSE was funded by the Morris Animal Foundation.
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Course Details
The RAiSE course is available 24/7 for up to 90 days following purchase.
The course is extremely interactive with videos, learning activities, and quizzes!
The total estimated time to complete the course is 4 hours
A certificate of completion can be earned after accessing all pages and earning at least an 80% on all assessments
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"I would definitely recommend it, even for 4-H teenagers from ninth grade and up. It's detailed and educational."
RAiSE Course Participant
RAiSE CREATORS
Created by Equine Extension Specialists with over 70 years of cumulative experience in the equine industry, teaching, and research.
Read more about each course creator below
Kathy Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor & Horse Extension Specialist
Dr. Kathy Anderson has been the Extension Horse Specialist at the University of Nebraska since 1991. She oversees Nebraska's adult extension horse program and teaches in the Animal Science Department. She is an avid horse show judge and has cards with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), American Paint Horse Association (APHA) and National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA). Dr. Anderson stays highly involved in the industry. Her family raises and shows in Trail and Western Pleasure Horses. She is the CFO of Extension Horses, past president of the American Youth Horse Council, and has been an advisor for the Nebraska Quarter Horse Youth Association. She is a National Director for AQHA and serves on AQHA’s Youth Committee.
Colleen Brady, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Colleen Brady is a Professor and Extension Specialist at Purdue University. She earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State University in Animal Science. Throughout her career, she has focused her research, teaching and Extension programming on the interactions between horses and humans. Dr. Brady is especially interested in understanding the beliefs and knowledge of horse owners, and the general public, about horse welfare, especially as it applies to the ridden horse. She develops and assesses the effectiveness of online teaching methodologies to increase horse owner knowledge in areas that impact horse welfare; and has served as the Education Officer for the International Society of Equitation Science since 2016. In 2023, Dr. Brady was named a Fellow of the Equine Science Society for her long-term contributions to the education of horse owners through classroom and Extension teaching.
Kris Hiney, Ph.D.
Amber Wells, M.S.
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist for Horses
Graduate Student
Dr. Kris Hiney is an associate professor at Oklahoma State University where she holds an extension and teaching position. She is responsible for youth and adult equine education throughout the state. ​​Dr. Hiney earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, a Master’s degree at Texas A&M, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State. Her specialties include nutrition and exercise physiology, western horsemanship and exploring new ways to teach equine behavior and science to all audiences. She is the current chair and active contributor to Extension Horses Inc, the national team of equine experts. In her spare time, she enjoys teaching agility classes for dog owners and is an avid agility competitor with her Australian Shepherds and Border Collies.
Amber Wells is a graduate student at Oklahoma State University under the direction of Dr. Kris Hiney. She is working toward her Master's degree in Animal Science with a focus on equine behavior and Extension. Amber completed her bachelor's degree at Auburn University in 2022 where she majored in Animal Science with an equine option focus as well as minored in Business. Amber worked as the Purdue Extension-Posey County Summer Intern in 2022 and has held various positions involving equine-related activities. She also enjoyed volunteering at therapeutic riding facilities and assisting the Posey County 4-H Blazing Saddles club with various tasks over the years in her hometown, Mount Vernon, Indiana.
Joan York, M.S.
Assistant Extension Specialist & Online
Learning Manager
Joan York is an Assistant Extension Specialist and the Online Learning Manager for Oklahoma State University Extension. She currently oversees OSU Extension’s catalog of online courses for staff and the public. She previously worked as an instructional designer at the University of Nevada-Reno. She holds a Master’s in Curriculum Development and Educational Technology from the University of Nevada and a Master's in English from the University of Oklahoma.