These highly focused video presentations answer a single teaching or leadership question and provide actionable insights.
Learn MorePrograms that provide actionable information on an array of topics for higher ed faculty and administrators.
Learn MoreCourses that provide asynchronous learning opportunities for higher ed faculty, staff, and administrators. Key areas of college teaching and leadership in two sessions!
Learn MoreThis two-and-a-half-day leadership in higher education conference presents the newest thinking on improving teaching and learning through such factors as course design, institutional culture and the latest teaching strategies. Meet and network with like-minded colleagues, and learn from innovators whose presentations showcase the proven methods and approaches that they’ve used with their students.
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Curriculum mapping is often undertaken for quality assurance and curriculum improvement, generally understood to aggregate and illustrate course-based learning experiences in the achievement of program outcomes.
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Understand the prevalence of unrecognized trauma in the general population and in the educational setting, learn to identify common characteristics of trauma, be able to recognize how maladaptive behaviors serve as coping skills in trauma survivors, learn the six principles for creating a trauma-informed classroom, and will learn strategies to evolve the learning environment and avoid re-traumatization.
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What happens during the first week of class sets the tone for the entire term and can affect retention and student success. For students to work well together in classes, a degree of trust must exist between them, and building this trust quickly is key. Learn about the concept of swift trust, which comes from business but applies to education as well.
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For faculty who struggle with engaging content delivery (lecture) How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate is a Magna Online Seminar that gives specific, practical steps to add enthusiasm and excitement to lectures and presentations.
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