|
RESOURCES
FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION
Newsletters:
Welcome to Magna Online Courses! Our courses are carefully designed with an awareness of the time demands faced by today's higher education professional. 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 accommodate your busy class, work and social obligations.
Our current Magna Online Course offerings:
Aggression Identification & Management for the Resident Advisor
Suicide Assessment & Mental Illness Awareness for the Resident Advisor
Browse our course home pages and check back frequently for new ones as they are added.
Magna Online Courses have many features that make them an important addition to the professional development needs of higher education personnel in many areas. Some of the benefits include:
- Use of a Learning Management System that provides user-friendly login, user profile for each participant, record-keeping and accountability features for the group administrator, and discussion threads for participants.
- Use of "Absorb, Do, Connect" learning activities — a commitment to engaging interactive features for the learner. This includes multiple ways of presenting the didactic material from experts you trust.
- Check on Learning: Reflective exercises that encourage each participant to relate to case studies and contribute to a discussion thread or reflective assignment.
- Confirmation of course completion and a printable Certificate of Completion for each participant.
 | A new online resource for Resident Advisors Aggression Identification & Management for the Resident Advisor is an online course designed to help RAs better understand how to identify and manage aggressive and disruptive behavior in the students they oversee on a daily basis. The course includes several lessons that will teach recognition, identification, intervention and referral skills you'll want them to have for situations they may need to manage. |
 | Make Campus Safety Your #1 Priority Everyone who works on your campus comes in contact with any number of students in a variety of ways everyday. But would they know which ones might be a threat to themselves or others? Campus Safety 101 is a six-part online course that helps faculty and other campus staff identify student behaviors that may be cause for concern. Get all your faculty and staff on the same page for campus safety issues! |
 | Become a confident online educator This new program is developed especially for faculty members new to teaching online. Online Courses: Step-by-Step takes you through each step in the process of bringing your courses online. You'll learn about online pedagogy, teaching tools, and how to get a course up and running. And it's all in simple, plain language. You'll learn how to make the leap from traditional to virtual classroom — painlessly! |
 | Help your RAs spot "early warning" clues Student suicide continues to be a very real and disturbing element of campus life. Suicide Assessment & Mental Illness Awareness for the Resident Advisor assists RAs in their training process to better understand the mental health concerns of today's college students. Act today to give them the training and tools they need to competently and confidently reach out to assist troubled students. |
