Flower Darby

Flower Darby is an associate director of the Teaching Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She celebrates and promotes effective teaching in all class modes to include, welcome, and support all students. Having taught in higher education for more than 26 years in English, technology, leadership, dance, and Pilates, Darby enjoys applying learning science across the disciplines and helping others do the same. She’s the author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes (2019). Her new book project is on emotion science and teaching with technology.
Last Updated: 2-02-2023

- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Join three educators as they discuss teaching in the era of ChatGPT, and answer your questions about embracing this technology.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Emotions are strongly linked to how we pay attention, focus, engage, remember, and learn. This online seminar will present practical strategies for putting the power of emotions to work in online classes to help capture and hold students’ attention, better engage students in their learning, and ultimately help them persist and succeed.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Collaborative Learning Approaches that Support Neurodiverse Students
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Explore practical strategies to plan group tasks so that our neurodiverse learners can successfully contribute to collaborative learning activities.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Build International Student Success with Intercultural Awareness
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar details the three primary worldviews, cultural dimensions, and how these shape our interactions with others, in order to create a classroom that is inclusive and inviting to all.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Increase student motivation, produce higher-quality student work, and encourage student responsibility and academic integrity, all while making assessment less stressful for students and simplifying the grading process for themselves.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- 8 Small Teaching Strategies that Deliver Big Results to Engage Online Students and Improve Learning
- $39.00 – $799.00
- In this Magna Online Seminar, explore practical, evidence-based changes you can make in your online teaching practice, which result in significant gains in student engagement and learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Research shows that in order to be successful in online classes, students need to be able to manage their time, motivate themselves to work on schedule, and seek help when needed, among other executive functioning skills. One major online learning challenge occurs because many online students are still developing these life skills.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program will present five practical strategies to level up online teaching so that instructors experience greater satisfaction in their work and create more rewarding learning experiences for their students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Guide Online Learning By Engaging with Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Gain practical approaches for engaging with online students, fostering connections between students, and for students to better relate to your content.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Technology to Foster the Emotional Processing of Course Content?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- It is becoming more and more important to actively stimulate and engage the emotional responses of students to help them learn deeply and meaningfully. The intentional application of technology can capture an interaction with the content to develop students emotional responses to content which in turn, fosters deeper understanding and learning of important concepts and ideas.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- What Behavioral Changes Can I Make to Inspire Enthusiasm in My Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Explore the phenomena of emotional contagion and affective crossover, both rooted in the emerging science of emotion, to develop techniques that enable faculty to inspire students, foster enthusiasm, and motivate learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Recent research shows that emotions have a strong impact on cognition. Instead of excluding emotion from the classroom, instructors would do well to acknowledge and take advantage of the impact emotions have on students ability to learn new material. Drawing on a proposed addition of Emotional Presence to the Community of Inquiry Framework, examine why and how emotions can increase learning and retention.
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