Brian Udermann, PhD

Brian Udermann, PhD, has more than 20 years of teaching experience in higher education. He started teaching online in 2005, and served as the director of online education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse from 2007-2020. In addition to his administrative duties, he facilitates online workshops through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and is an alumnus of OLC’s Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning. Udermann has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, five book chapters, and two books, and has done more than 200 national and international presentations.

Last Updated: 1-11-2021

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- Using Student Feedback to Immediately Improve Teaching
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- For teaching faculty who are looking for continuous improvement in their instruction, this Magna Online Seminar demonstrates how real-time evaluations and teaching improvement benefit both current students and the instructor.
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- How Can I Help Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning?
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- For online teachers who are struggling with students who are not succeeding in online courses and need support, this 20-Minute Mentor details an array of easy-to-use strategies that will have a big impact on student success.
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- What Are Practical Solutions for Managing My Online Teaching Workload?
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- This 20-Minute Mentor will provide a variety of practical solutions for faculty to use to manage their online teaching workload, including ways to effectively provide student feedback in less time and how to eliminate “time-stealers".
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- How Can I Incorporate Best Practices into My Online Teaching?
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- For faculty teaching online who are in need of advice on effective online teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor provides best practices from an experienced online educator for creating and delivering your course.
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- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $329.00
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course is your surest path to online teaching success. This content-rich, 20- to 25-hour Magna Online Course provides core principles and best practices in online teaching—to get you up and running fast, without costly and frustrating false starts.
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- Customized Course Review Rubrics: How to Take the Quality of Your Online Courses to the Next Level
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- Learn who to involve in the planning, how to decide on the questions included, and the steps to creating a course review rubric that makes sense for your online programs.
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- Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
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- Gain a variety of strategies to create discussion board activities that your students find interesting and also strategies to effectively facilitate discussions and manage the workload related to reading and grading posts.
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- 7 Things to Consider Before Developing an Online Course
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- How Can Online Instructors Make Themselves More Visible to Students?
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- How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?
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- One common misperception students have regarding online courses is that these courses are easier, less time consuming, and less rigorous than traditional face-to-face courses. This can lead to a major disconnect between expectations and outcome.
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Brian Udermann, PhD

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