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Welcome to Magna's Online Courses! Magna Online Courses are carefully designed in acknowledging the time demands faced by today's higher education professionals. By taking advantage of convenient 24/7 online access, you can proceed through the courses at your own pace, completing assignments when you choose to in accommodating your class and work schedules.
Magna Online Courses have multiple features that make these courses a vital addition to your professional development needs to include:
- Use of a Learning Management System that provides for record keeping and accountability including user friendly log-in, student profiles, and discussion threads.
- Use of "Absorb, Do, Connect," learning activities — a commitment to engaging interactive activities for the learner. This includes multiple ways of presenting the didactic material from experts you trust.
- Check on Learning: Reflective exercises that encourage the learner to relate to case studies and contribute to a discussion thread or reflective assignment.
- Confirmation of course completion.
Current Magna Online Courses:
Aggression Identification & Management for the Resident Advisor
Suicide Assessment & Mental Illness Awareness for the Resident Advisor
Browse our courses and check back frequently for new ones as they are added.
Make Campus Safety
Your #1 Priority
Campus Safety 101 is an all-new intensive, 6-part online course that helps faculty and staff identify student behaviors that should be cause for concern. Get all your faculty and staff on the same page for campus safety issues!
A new online resource
for Resident Advisors
Aggression Identification & Management for the Resident Advisor is a new online course designed to help RAs better understand how to identify and manage aggressive and disruptive behavior from Magna Online Courses. Give your RAs the tools they need to recognize and effectively respond to acts of aggression and disruption.
Help your RAs spot "early warning" clues
Suicide Assessment & Mental Illness Awareness for the Resident Advisor, a new online course, assists RAs in their training process to better understand the mental health concerns of today's college students. The existence of student suicides continues to be a very real and disturbing element of campus life. Act today to give your RAs the training that they need to competently and confidently reach out and assist troubled students.
Become a confident online educator
There's a brand-new program developed just for faculty like you. It's called Online Courses: Step-by-Step, and as the name implies, it takes you through each step in the process of bringing your courses online. You'll learn about online pedagogy, teaching tools and the nuts and bolts of getting a course up and running. It's all in simple, plain language. No technospeak! This three-part program shows you how to make the leap from traditional classroom to virtual classroom — painlessly!
