Faculty Development

When it comes to diversity, even the most well-intentioned people can make the biggest mistakes. In this seminar, highly-acclaimed diversity trainer and author Maura Cullen, Ph.D., introduces you to the 10 core concepts that will ultimately increase diversity skills and competency.

$279 — Learn More — Order Now

In today’s information age, you’ve got people offering leadership theories and advice on budgetary issues, competition from other institutions, and increasing legislative scrutiny. The glut of solution-pushing can leave you overwhelmed and unable to decide on a direction.  What you need is to cut through the clutter and pinpoint the strategies for building and sustaining a successful organization.  We provide you with ten strategies that are present in healthy, successful organizations.

$269 — Learn More — Order Now

If you want to create a first-class learning environment start with the first class. From the very first day–from the moment students walk in the door–you set the tone for the entire semester. You can establish expectations, clarify responsibilities, energize and engage your students, and create a strong framework for success. We provide you with practical, proven tips for starting your classes off right.

$239 — Learn More — Order Now

A challenging economy has resulted in larger class sizes, increased workloads and more stress for faculty at colleges and universities across the country. Times like these can make it tough for educators to stay enthusiastic, but it’s vital that they do so, for the sake of their students, their institutions, their careers and their own well-being. This seminar will teach you how you can innovate your way past career stagnation and engage your students like never before.

$249 — Learn More — Order Now

It’s not surprising that many new faculty members struggle when they are first asked to lead their own classes. Bad habits picked up early in a teaching career can become self-defeating in the long term. Drawing upon our presenter's fifteen years of teaching and mentoring experience, we offer compelling and realistic advice on day-to-day teaching and improving student learning to guide new faculty members around predictable pitfalls and set them on the path to a rewarding teaching career.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

As a new college instructor, you have many questions. For the new college teacher, it is best to learn from those who have been there. In this White Paper you will discoverteaching strategies including the tips and techniques that have proven successful for experienced faculty and explore how to use these in your own classes. You'll get a wealth of ideas to improve your teaching.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

As if your own research weren’t enough. Sure, your subject matter changes somewhat from year to year—keeping up with that is just part of the job. But learning science evolves, too. That means you need to update not only what you teach, but also how you teach. This seminar prepares you to answer the demands for accountability and evidenced-based approaches to instruction by giving you not only insights into how students learn but also actual teaching strategies that reflect the latest research.

$269 — Learn More — Order Now

Students can’t overcome bad habits they don’t know they have. We'll show you how to establish a climate of trust in which students can learn to recognize blind spots, gaps and contradictions in the way they think. We also share techniques to enhance classroom discussion and make it a vehicle for active learning and intellectual development.

$249 — Learn More — Order Now

Traditional faculty workload, promotion and tenure policies don’t necessarily work for online faculty. And as new educational delivery environments evolve with the internet, it becomes even more crucial for higher education leaders to re-examine how they reward and motivate faculty. Draw upon the experience of an established dual-mode graduate department and how it set faculty incentive policies that acknowledged and accommodated different delivery modes.

$189 — Learn More — Order Now

You know a “hands-off” policy helps students meet challenges on their own, and use their abilities to the fullest, but you also know if you don’t provide adequate support, you’ll end up with students who are discouraged, directionless and unlikely to succeed. We explain how you can empower students and examine five important areas of the student-teacher relationship and help you find the middle ground.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

At their best, blended learning courses combine the advantages of face-to-face instruction with effective online modules to increase learning while reducing instructor workload. At its worst, blended learning can become an administrative nightmare for professors and a frustrating disappointment to students in the classes. In this Magna White Paper, you will learn 10 key strategies for improving blended learning course design from Ike Shibley, Ph.D., a leader in the field.

$69 — Learn More — Order Now

You can learn how to lead an integrity movement on your campus in Building a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Magna Publications White Paper. This report provides a step-by-step guide to building a culture of integrity and offers strategies to more fully incorporate values and ethics education into curriculum.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Many educators believe that service-learning can be a valuable practice … for other educators. But they’re sometimes at a loss to understand how it can be incorporated into their own disciplines. We show you what service-learning can add to your courses and provide concrete implementation strategies.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

While making our lives easier, technology has also provided a number of new challenges in the classroom–particularly with cell phones, laptops and social networking sites. You need to work with Millennials more effectively on the use of cell phones, laptops and Facebook. Our program offers specific strategies on effectively managing when, where and how these tools are related to classroom learning.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Store-bought or homemade? “Store-bought” assessment tools, more generally known as “published assessment instruments”, have some advantages and disadvantages relative to homemade, or locally developed, tools. But published instruments are also a diverse lot; they need to be examined carefully, and on their individual merits. We'll help you decide whether published instruments should be part of your assessment program, and if so, which ones.

$189 — Learn More — Order Now

Difficult students present a variety of challenges. Some are disruptive. Some repeatedly fail to complete assignments. While others have unreasonably high expectations for themselves. With all of the different challenges posed by these students, which approach does one take to attempt to work successfully with them? Learn proven methods for overcoming challenging student behavior and successfully engaging students in learning in this seminar.

$249 — Learn More — Order Now

Do the faculty members at your school know how to respond effectively when confronted by uncooperative or even aggressive students? Find out how to successfully manage the full-range of student behavior problems. We use role play scenarios of problematic classroom behaviors to share strategies for responding effectively.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

Concept mapping may be applied in any academic discipline to make better sense of a reading, document learning or thinking, or brainstorm a project. Used expertly, they can substantially increase student understanding of difficult topics. We'll introduce the idea of concept mapping and explain how it can be used to facilitate explanations and raise achievement in the classroom.

$254 — Learn More — Order Now

As an educator, you can take comfort in the fact that knowledge is power.  You have the opportunity to discover solutions to the cheating epidemic in the Magna White Paper Confronting Cheating: A Legal Primer and Tool Kit.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

More and more schools are turning to curriculum mapping. Curriculum maps can enhance your programming and engage your faculty while standing up to increased oversight of by accrediting agencies, funders, students, and employers. This seminar helps you get started with curriculum maps and help you improve the overall educational program at your school.

$239 — Learn More — Order Now

If you’re struggling with difficult students at your institution, Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom,  a Magna White Paper, details the most common styles of student disruption and then spells out precisely how to respond to even the most menacing situations. It provides you with the practical and effective solutions that will prepare you to handle the full range of student misbehavior.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Explosive. Anti-social. Passive-aggressive. Students with these and other types of troublesome personalities can quickly undermine a class and spoil the learning experience for everyone involved. We help you will gain an in-depth understanding of the seven disruptive personality styles and learn how to identify "red flag" signals and to better manage passive-aggressive behavioral styles.

$239 — Learn More — Order Now

“If you want something done right …”When it comes to assessment of student learning, many in academia choose published instruments. Certainly those tools have much to recommend them. But there are equally strong opinions in favor of locally-developed assessment tools. We look at the strengths and weaknesses of various assessment tools, and how you can use them to best advantage in your programs.

$189 — Learn More — Order Now

When a Teaching Professor blog post about extra credit generated record response, Maryellen Weimer knew the time was right to explore the often-controversial practice of giving students an unplanned opportunity to make up ground lost in earlier exams or assignments. In this special 30-minute online seminar, Extra Credit: An Undeserved Gift or a Second Chance to Learn? she discusses the pros and cons of offering extra credit. This seminar will give you new ways to think about your extra credit policies.

$49 — Learn More — Order Now

Technology is a part of life on campus and off. Even if your school doesn’t offer any online programs or degrees, you know that the Internet, in particular, plays a big role in higher education.

What you might not know is that sometimes blending classroom and online instruction can actually improve student performance while managing cost and maximizing student and instructor time. And if adopting technology leads to better outcomes, what are you waiting for?

The challenge lies in identifying when technology is most useful and then determining what and how much of it to use. Find out how to evaluate available technologies as well as their applicability to various courses in Finding the Right Technology to Support Learning Outcomes.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

Whether they’re called Generation Y, Millennial learners or NextGen learners, today’s students bring unique perceptions and preferences to campuses and classrooms across the country.

Learn how to better meet their needs with Five Strategies to Engage Today’s Students, a 90-minute audio seminar on CD with award-winning educator,  Christy Price, Ed.D..

Price shares research-based insights on the key traits of today’s students, to help you create more effective teaching and learning experiences through enhanced student engagement.

$279 — Learn More — Order Now

To effectively teach and assess student performance, as well as to help students learn at an optimal level, it is important that learning goals be as clear as possible. Linda Suskie will show you a variety of ways to clarify learning goals that may be vague or unclear.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Learning and using names is probably the simplest, most direct way for you as a teacher to demonstrate interest in your students. By learning and using your students’ names, you succeed in building trust, increasing teacher-student rapport, and making it more likely that students will participate in class discussion—all factors that can contribute to student academic success. We help you understand the benefits of learning and using students’ names and will present specific techniques to help.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Without deep learning, students can come away from courses with misunderstandings and oversimplified views of complex issues. We look at how the process of critical reflection is a reliable way to deepen the learning experience.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

According to research, there are a number of teaching strategies that have proven to be successful in facilitating deep, lasting student learning. The key is to know when and how to apply these strategies. We share 17 research-supported strategies that have proven effective in promoting deep, lasting student learning.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

If you do need to dismiss a student, how do you do it properly and legally? We answer basic questions about dismissing students from class. We tell you how to prevent it from happening–and gives you sample statements to include in your syllabus. In addition, we share a rubric that you might use with students who are admitted back to your class to ensure the behavior you expect.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Save time and significantly improve student outcomes by using Voice Feedback. Research shows that students value and are far more likely to incorporate voice feedback in completing their assignments than written feedback. We explain the benefits of using voice feedback and walk you through the process of how to incorporate this approach into your teaching.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Despite the widespread acceptance and demonstrated success of group learning, many teachers do not know how to create small groups effectively. We discuss key factors involved in successfully facilitating group learning and teach you the benefits of group work.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

We’ve all encountered “toxic” learning environments–apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. Keeping the classroom climate positive is the responsibility of both sides. Learn valuable concepts you can put to work right away in every class.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

A properly crafted question can engage students’ interest, foster ideas and contributions from other students, and in little time at all help transform what may have been an uninspired or “flat” classroom into a hotbed of learning in which the ideas and comments of one student are quickly built on by another.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

All faculty members have students who cheat in their classrooms. Should our primary response to classroom cheating be prevention, punishment, or indifference? With 11 pages of supplementals, we explain how a developmental approach can ensure that all your students stay on the track to ethical academic success. 

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

When it comes to classroom participation, research continues to confirm what most faculty members experience each day: A limited number of students make the majority of contributions. Although getting more students to participate is challenging, the good news is that it can be done, and it doesn’t have to involve such tactics as “cold calling” on students or resorting to a points system. We describe 18 strategies that work.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

If you’re looking for guidance in integrating service-learning into a new course or an existing one, we provide valuable insights on everything you need to develop an engaging service-learning syllabus in your discipline. Learn how to successfully manage the logistics of service-learning, from transportation to training to risk management.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Many students come to class without having done the assigned reading. Even though many faculty members routinely spell out course requirements in syllabuses and give individual announcements and reminders, students continue to come to class unprepared. We provide several dynamic strategies that you can use to help students learn the value of reading.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Trying to teach students to improve their writing can be like trying to teach cats to fetch: Demonstrate all you want, encourage all you want, implore all you want; you’re apt to be met with nothing but blinks. We share seven novel feedback techniques that will motivate your students and drive real improvement in their writing.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

With the availability of VoiceThread, technology that allows educators to host secure conversations using media that include videos, images or presentations, students can now post comments within a lecture itself.  An expert in distance education program development, discusses how VoiceThread can add a whole new element of interaction to an online course.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

If you have had non-traditional students, you have probably faced some difficult situations. Non-traditional students are different. Learn how to strike the right balance between inflexible and being a pushover.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

There are relatively simple and accessible ways to establish criteria that will enable you to analyze and interpret assessment data. We present relatively simple and accessible ways to establish criteria that will enable you to analyze and interpret assessment data. It's the information you need to decode your assessment data and unlock its potential to improve student learning on your campus.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

Parents worry. Some are concerned about their children’s relationships, academic stand, or living arrangements. And some parents bring their concerns to bear when speaking with faculty members…sometimes at the top of their lungs. So what should you do? We suggest that you see this type of situation as a “teachable moment" for the parent.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

The stakes are high when an instructor responds to a student answer that is wrong or just not very good. What a teacher says to a student will influence future class participation and discussions. To increase the chances of student participation, it helps to have a repertoire of strategies to employ. We introduce you to 13 possible strategies and responses that you can use when a student has provided an answer that is wrong or not very good.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

A college education is about more than just accumulating knowledge. To reach deeper levels of understanding, a student must be able to construct meaning out of a purposeful combination of experiences and academic materials. Critical reflection is one of the best ways to overcome this common problem. We address the common misconception that reflection activities are “touchy-feely” exercises lacking in academic rigor and provide clear guidance on how to facilitate and assess the learning gained through critical reflection exercises.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

The need to manage aggression among college students has never been more intense. Increasingly troubled students are showing up on campus and bringing more challenging behaviors into the classroom with them. Learn how to identify and respond to aggressive behavior to help prevent the next campus tragedy from occurring.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

We’ve arranged with some of higher education's leading authorities on the subject of learning improvement to discuss that they believe (and what research often shows) to be the best approaches. When it comes to improving student learning, what works best? Find out their insights in this special 4-pack series of 20 Minute Mentor presentations.

$299 — Learn More — Order Now

You can learn how transform attitudes on your campus in the 90-minute Keys to a Culture of Assessment: Value and Respect. Presenter Linda Suskie updates a popular seminar to show attendees how to convert skeptics and opponents. This seminar reveals that progress doesn’t require more complex assessment strategies; in fact, simplifying assessment can often lead to better results.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

Faculty members are expected to know and adhere to a host of new legal mandates. Two higher education attorneys cover important legal essentials for today's faculty. We provide the necessary tools and information to understand the legal concerns that most commonly impact academia and how to prevent the litigation that can arise from them. Designed for everyone who can be held accountable for knowing and implementing legal mandates.

$189 — Learn More — Order Now

With learner-centered teaching, students take more responsibility for their learning. It’s an approach that focuses a teacher’s attention on what students are doing and deals with learning processes explicitly. We share three strategies to demonstrate approaches that can benefit students and teachers.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Today’s teachers need a thorough understanding of how the available wide variety of technological tools can enhance learning. Knowing about the tools is the first step, but the most successful teachers become adept at creating courses that capitalize on the pedagogical benefits that technology can bring.

This seminar is presented by Dr. Ike Shibley.  Ike is an associate professor of chemistry at Penn State Berks.  His research involves pedagogical approaches to improving science instruction at the college level. He has won both local and university-wide awards for his teaching including this year's Eisenhower Award presented to a tenured Penn State faculty member who exhibits excellent teaching as well as mentoring other teachers.

$284 — Learn More — Order Now

College and university librarians not only know what resources are out there, but also the types of resources students like. They can help instructors effectively weave information literacy into engaging everyday classroom activities. Who better for faculty to collaborate with? We provide you with timeless, helpful tips and experience-based insights and best practices to assist you with strengthening your students’ research skills and information literacy.

$179 — Learn More — Order Now

Whether you’re concerned about cheating or legal rights and responsibilities, a proactive approach helps stop problems before they start.  In the Magna Online Seminar, Managing Student Discipline Issues Legally and Effectively our highly-experienced presenters will show you preparation makes the difference in classroom management.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

Currently, student ratings are the most common way to assess teaching effectiveness. But using only student evaluations for faculty review can be problematic. Student ratings aren’t the best measures of student learning, and when faculty careers depend on student satisfaction, educators may feel driven to keep students happy, rather than make sure they’re learning. 

$269 — Learn More — Order Now

Your assessments can be a lot more than a nuisance or necessary evil. When all your constituents see and understand that you actually use your assessments to make decisions, set goals, and improve learning, then your constituents might not be so dismissive. We help you review your assessment efforts to identify what has worked, what hasn’t, and what you can do to get better results next time.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

When you see odd classroom behavior, what can or should you do? Your response depends on a number of factors, which are described in detail by W. Scott Lewis, J.D. During this program you will learn basic identification criteria for reporting and responding to students who have a mental health or substance issue.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Online Classroom newsletter as been helping educators develop and define the world of online education since its inception in 2003. Issue after issue, we look at the challenges and opportunities presented by this dynamic, fast-growing teaching medium.

$177 — Learn More — Order Now

It's not that difficult to move online, and there's an easy, practical, painless way to learn how. Or if you tried teaching online and the results weren't what you expected, here is a way to get you there. Online Courses: Step-by-Step is an online training program that introduces you to critical online teaching concepts. We give you the tools you need to get your classes online successfully.

$299 — Learn More — Order Now

By combining the best of face-to-face instruction with online learning technology, blended approaches can reduce time on campus while contributing to better learning outcomes. One way “hybrid” courses do this is by increasing student engagement through creative uses of technology–before, during, and after class. We offer you specific strategies to use with students before class meetings, during class time and after class is over.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

Creating a learner-centered classroom involves more than just engaging students; it is a philosophical shift in how the instructor approaches the class. We provide a step-by-step guide to integrating learner-centered strategies into existing courses.

$229 — Learn More — Order Now

The classroom is supposed to be a distraction-free place to learn.  So why do some students treat it like a social club?  Instructors don’t have to accept bad behavior and they don’t have to be tyrannical rulers to keep classrooms civil. We cover typical disruptive behaviors, from the habitually late student, to the eater, gum chewer, sleeper, and even the interrupter. We also provide you with strategies to deal with new and unexpected situations that arise in classrooms every year.

$239 — Learn More — Order Now

A dynamic and interactive two part workshop and consultation to improve your service-learning program. Get your questions answered by the country’s foremost authority on service-learning, in this special online program. To bring a consultant to your campus for a pair of workshops and a month of assistance, you'll pay thousands of dollars. And that wouldn’t even include the cost of the supplemental materials in this program, themselves worth nearly $600. But through the innovative Service-Learning Course Design Workshop & Consultation program, you’ll pay far less.

$829 — Learn More — Order Now

Many faculty members would like to design and teach a service-learning course. But you are often puzzled about how to go about successfully running a course. There’s plenty of information out there–but that’s the problem. Where do you go to find an effective resource that will answer your questions? This White Paper explains the rationale and provides the “how-to” details of designing and teaching a service-learning course, presented by Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D., a nationally recognized expert in service-learning and author of three books on the topic.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Faculty members who enrich their teaching with service-learning explore the connections between their disciplines and the critical questions facing local and global society. Creating an effective and meaningful service-learning course requires careful planning and logistical know-how. Get an insightful explanation of the workings of a successful service-learning course.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

When it comes to instruction, just “winging it” isn’t any more acceptable in an online classroom than it is in a traditional one. Yet, in the absence of any guidelines or best practices, that’s precisely what many instructors do. Carefully developed guidelines revealed in this seminar can strengthen your instructors’ classroom performance, increase student satisfaction, and enhance your program’s reputation. You will also learn 12 key areas in which you should be establishing concrete, measurable guidelines for instructors.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

Today, higher education educators face growing pressure to deliver results while serving an increasingly diverse student body. Fortunately, ongoing research has expanded our knowledge of both how learning affects the human brain, and the behaviors which support effective learning. These principles apply across cultures and disciplines.  Learn how to harness them for your classroom in this 90-minute video seminar with Dr. Kendall Zoller.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

Trying to make a decision about taking attendance can quickly generate more questions than answers. We discuss how to make effective attendance decisions that do not result in creating a negative perception of you as a teacher. Explore giving students a reason to come to class rather than forcing them to attend and learn different techniques for taking attendance that won’t be viewed negatively by students.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Budget cuts, changing curricula and an increasing focus on interdisciplinary courses are just some of the pressures forcing instructors out of accustomed subject areas and into unfamiliar teaching territory. We provide valuable recommendations for maintaining your confidence and remaining an effective instructor, even when teaching outside your comfort zone.

$249 — Learn More — Order Now

Assessment results can guide goal setting and inform planning and budgeting decisions. They can lead to improved student learning and institutional effectiveness. They can tell a compelling story about your successes and continuous improvement efforts. But these things can happen only if results are shared with those who can help make a difference. We'll help you put your assessment results to work.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

The growing availability of portable multimedia devices and the proliferation of Course Management Systems make the time right for college instructors to begin to integrate audio and video teaching and learning modules to create more engaging–and more effective–courses. Learn how technology can free up class time for higher order learning activities.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

No matter what you teach, or whether you teach at a public or private college or university, you’re bound to run into cheating sooner or later. Cheating runs rampant throughout our society, from captains of industry to college students, but that doesn’t make it any easier for academics and educators to deal with it.  Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D., looks at the common myths and misunderstandings about student cheating that limit your ability to respond effectively to the problem, and teaches you a way forward based on teaching.

$279 — Learn More — Order Now

Online instruction will continue to grow rapidly on college campuses nationwide. This seminar offers thought-provoking insights on the best ways to structure online courses to promote deeper levels of student understanding. We offer thought-provoking insights on the best ways to structure online courses to promote deeper levels of student understanding.

$279 — Learn More — Order Now

There are more unprepared students arriving on college campuses than ever before. The number of college students with defined learning disabilities has tripled on campus, while many other students simply have inadequate reading, writing, and study skills. Get practical strategies for improving at-risk students’ skills and increasing student success rates.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

We all want to help students learn. Decades of classic publications provide the foundation. Yet educators also seek practical applications–the nuts and bolts of working with an educational strategy in the classroom. This seminar blends the theoretical with the practical, and explores it all in light of growing interest in active learning. Receive over 50 web sources and examples from multiple disciplines and provides a large collection of searchable and linkable ideas you can start using in your next class.

$239 — Learn More — Order Now

Blended Course Design combines online learning and face to face instruction for a synergistic combination that can help you reduce costs while improving the quality of learning.

Learn how to incorporate it in your college courses by participating in Magna’s video Online Seminar Ten Ways to Improve Blended Course Design. 

$349 — Learn More — Order Now

The Best of The Teaching Professor paperback book includes a collection of the top articles from The Teaching Professor Newsletter. This 130 page book, edited by Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., provides a discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in today's college classroom.

$50 — Learn More — Order Now

The Teaching Professor is the lively, highly informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. A source of cutting-edge information and inspiration for over 10,000 educators.

$89 — Learn More — Order Now

Leading universities are using “clickers” to motivate and assess student learning. Student response system research shows that the benefits to instructors and learners are significant. Whether your institution has a clicker system in place or is simply looking into the idea, knowing how to effectively take advantage of this emerging technology can energize any course. We help you mine student response systems for use in current and future courses.

$259 — Learn More — Order Now

Classroom clicker student-response systems can be used in learner-centered teaching to prompt discussion, do practice problems, assess student preparation and understanding and to gather students’ opinions about the course and its content. We introduce clicker technology, show you how to craft questions to maximize student engagement and learning, and teach you how to design an entire course to make the most of this learner-centered teaching technology.

$304 — Learn More — Order Now

Research tells us that learners benefit when they collaborate in teams. This teamwork helps develop learners’ critical thinking skills, increases their persistence, and improves their understanding of diversity. We'll suggest timeless methods for avoiding pitfalls. We'll show you how to incorporate assessment and manage your teams while promoting shared responsibility for learning. The methods will work in both large and small classes.

$199 — Learn More — Order Now

A podcast is a portable multimedia digital file and in this seminar, you’ll learn how to use them to increase student engagement, emphasize essential learning outcomes, and demonstrate problem-solving in action

The end result – your students develop greater self-confidence and personal responsibility for their education, and you can concentrate on educational goals.

$349 — Learn More — Order Now

College professors continue to discover exciting ways to leverage the social media platform Twitter to accomplish important learning and research goals. With this application, students and faculty can identify relevant organizations to follow, remain current with each other’s research, and make professional contacts. We show you innovative ways to adapt its use to the college classroom, including the advantages of communicating in 140 characters or less.

$239 — Learn More — Order Now

By analyzing how many students got a particular answer wrong, teachers can determine how well the particular item worked and how their teaching related to this item is working. In this program you will learn how to analyze individual test items so you can improve your test design skills as well as your teaching in general.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Rubrics offer a number of benefits for faculty. These include providing a way to clearly communicate expectations to students, as well as to easily describe levels of student achievement. We provide an internationally recognized expert on assessment who walks you through the key essentials of interpreting and summarizing rubric results so you can better understand how to use this important tool to improve your teaching.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

This fast, focused presentation zeroes in on a trio of potential higher education teaching pitfalls … one involving how you teach, one what you teach, and one whom you teach. You’ll come away with ideas you can use right away to avoid problems and create a positive, productive learning environment.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

There is the growing stack of papers to grade, the lectures to prepare for, and the endless drafts of scholarships for publication. No wonder many faculty members at college and university campuses today struggle with burnout and excessive stress. We look at valuable approaches for recognizing and addressing faculty burnout and stress.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

While student ratings are dismissed by some educators for having little to offer, these ratings can in fact be highly beneficial to teachers who want to improve their skills. Students can provide helpful and legitimate feedback on what they feel they learned, workload levels, and observable behaviors that include the teacher’s pace, volume, clarity and organization. We show you how to read student ratings to help make you a better teacher.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Requirements for the disclosure of student information under FERPA and individual institutions are both comprehensive and complex, as they define and govern the handling of not-confidential information as well as confidential educational records. In addition, under FERPA there are “danger zones”. We outline the questions that you must ask before responding to inquiries about your students.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

At many colleges and universities, the number of students with Asperger’s Disorder continues to increase. While these students have the intellectual abilities to be successful, they struggle with “reading” social cues and comprehending unwritten rules and procedures. They may be teased or laughed at by other students. We offer recommendations for helping these students to succeed.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Professors and instructors are critical to battling rising dropout rates. What happens in the college classroom is central to a student’s decision-making process and desires to persist in college. The good news is that faculty members do not have to lower their standards in order to retain more students. By implementing the right strategies, they can dramatically improve retention rates without sacrificing academic quality or rigor. This White Paper details key methods professors can employ to prevent dropouts and increase student success in college.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

In the White Paper What Faculty Must Know About Campus Security, you will learn methods for fostering essential safety-enhancing relationships between professors and students.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Learn how to respond to even the toughest questions that students pose with confidence and credibility. We help you develop a reliable strategy for fielding students’ questions without losing your cool or undermining your credibility.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

The number of students with disabilities at our college campuses has grown in recent years. As a result, the range of potential issues and requests that faculty may encounter from these students is more diverse—and challenging—than ever before. We walk you through the fundamental requirements to ensure you are working with students properly under the law.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now

Faculty members have always faced time constraints when planning their courses, but the information age is now making it even harder to decide what to cover in a semester. Get advice on what to include, and what you can safely disregard, as you write your syllabi and plan your busy semesters. Are you ready to embrace the future learning model? We'll show you what you must include, and what you can safely disregard, as you write your syllabi and plan your busy semesters.

$200 — Learn More — Order Now

Working with Difficult Students: Four Case Studies—offers the best of both worlds.  It shows how to apply four widely-respected theories to four different types of classroom challenges.  In each case, the theory is explained and then demonstrated. This way, you can see for yourself how different conversations play out when research-based principles are applied. This white paper is recommended for new faculty members, experienced faculty members seeking fresh ideas for classroom management, faculty concerned about at-risk students, and academic deans and faculty development personnel instructors.

$99 — Learn More — Order Now