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Teaching Strategies and Professional Development for Teachers and Faculty

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- Faculty, Leadership, Online Courses, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Personal Development, Wellbeing
- The Wellbeing Elixir
- $329.00
- Understanding and managing physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual wellbeing can lead to more joy and less stress. Developed by educators, this Magna Online Course helps higher education professionals address wellbeing and resilience in order to be stronger both in their personal and professional lives.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- What Are Best Practices for Online Pedagogy?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve or are just not conversant with online teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor establishes the overall goal of virtual instruction while providing clear, practical, and proven online learning best practices.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- What’s Different About Teaching Online, and How Do I Change So My Students Succeed?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor provides a clear distinction between online learning and face to face learning differentiating best practices and course design for more effective instruction.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Understanding Racial Justice Through Food Studies
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar explores the relationship between race and food in order to teach key leadership skills for racial justice in institutions of higher education. Examine how food systems create racialized problems for minority communities along the lines of food insecurity, health, and identity.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using Authentic Assessment to Assess Student Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you develop authentic assignments and assessment mechanisms to help encourage a holistic understanding of student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty want to improve student feedback while not adding to their grading workload, this 20-Minute Mentor provides expert guidance to creating better opportunities for your students while being more efficient with your grading.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminars
- Implementing Mindful Online Teaching Using Zoom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty teaching online, especially remote content delivery and synchronous classes, this Magna Online Seminar demonstrates intentional and mindful teaching you can implement to create an engaging experience for students and a greater sense of community in the class.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For educators who are looking for ways to close the gaps between privileged and minoritized students, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to improve the success of minoritized students through implementing an antiracist syllabus.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors
- $299.00
- Achieve and sustain classroom success through this Magna Online Course which provides an in-depth examination of five core principles of college teaching.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Creating a Sense of Belonging for BIPoC in a College Course
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who want to create an equitable and inclusive teaching environment for all students, this Magna Online Seminar instills two psychosocial interventions to counteract systemic disadvantage and provide a more equitable opportunity for the academic success of BIPoC students.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Engaging and Interacting with Students in Online Courses
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty teaching online looking to improve student engagement, this Magna Online Seminar details four proven strategies to improve student engagement with the course content, the teacher, and other students.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using Student Feedback to Immediately Improve Teaching
- $39.00 – $697.00
- 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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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Using Humor and Levity to Enhance the Online Learning Environment
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty teaching online having trouble engaging students and miss the interaction of face-to-face teaching, this Magna Online Seminar shows you how humor can make your teaching and learning more engaging and enjoyable.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor focuses on the instructional considerations necessary for supporting student learning online and the numerous factors for achieving online student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Ensure Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty looking to ensure academic integrity in their online courses, this 20-Minute Mentor offers practical solutions to implement in their course and assessment design.
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- Classroom Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Bringing Diversity and Inclusion into Your Quantitative Course
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar assists faculty in better understanding the variety of ways that topics related to diversity and inclusion can be brought into their existing quantitative courses while providing several practical ways to do this through their syllabus, curricula, and more.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Develop Opportunity-minded Learners?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor assists instructors in best preparing their students for a meaningful career post-graduation through implementation of numerous methods that foster skills of opportunity-identification and huntfulness.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Be a More Productive and Effective Teacher?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are looking for career advice and professional development, this 20-Minute Mentor presents expert advice directly from outstanding research professors during the past forty years.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty seeking advice on writing more effective exam questions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many tips and strategies for reinvigorating exam question sets to provide students better examinations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who want to increase their exam security, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to use question banks to create unique exams and improve academic integrity.
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- Classroom Climate, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Climate and Culture
- $299.00
- For faculty who are creating an inclusive classroom where all students feel valued and seen, this Magna Online Course instills practical tactics and strategies from experienced educators to implement into day-to-day teaching to ensure an inclusive environment for all.
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- Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Personal Development
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Managing Your Career
- $299.00
- For faculty dealing with complicated job responsibilities in addition to a full course load, this Magna Online Course delivers proven tips and strategies from expert educators to better fulfill your responsibilities and grow within your profession.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Planning and Designing a Course
- $299.00
- For faculty searching for a deeper understanding of course planning tools such as backward design, mastery grading, and universal design for learning, this Magna Online Course provides you with practical guidance from expert educators who have implemented these strategies in their own classrooms.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Giving Narrative Shape to Your Online Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- More than ever, students are motivated by knowing how a course will serve them in future learning or in life after college. This Magna Online Seminar helps faculty create a narrative that connects daily learning to future careers.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminars
- How to Run Your Online Classroom So It Doesn’t Run You!
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty teaching online who are overwhelmed with the process and unable to create a meaningful learning experience, this Magna Online Seminar presents strategies to establish and manage workflow in order to control the classroom and make space for creative teaching.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Flipping Your Classroom
- $299.00
- The flipped classroom offers many advantages to students including flexibility, an improved learning environment, and additional opportunities for engagement with students, the teacher, and the content. This Magna Online Course is your flipping-classroom foundation, bestowing pedagogy, strategies, and actionable ideas related to flipping a class - all in one place.
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- Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses, Online Student Engagement
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Engaging Students
- $299.00
- Whether you are teaching face-to-face, online, or in a blended setting, this Magna Online Course is your one-stop shop for all things student engagement. A wealth of practical strategies and advice from experienced educators is waiting for you!
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For educators who are looking to maximize productivity and success in their student group work, this 20-Minute Mentor explores free resources that benefit group dynamics and can be implemented into your classroom to ultimately improve successful group work.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Effectively Move Peer Reviews Online?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For online teachers who need to engage students in a peer view of written assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor details specific instructions of how to accomplish this online, as well as what technology tools are best suited for this process.
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- Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses, Technology in Online Courses
- Start Teaching Online
- $299.00
- For educators who are unsure about where to start when it comes to teaching online, this Magna Online Course will help with the main areas of planning, engaging, and teaching online and serve as the essential foundation of teaching online.
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- Books, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- Remote Teaching and Learning: Reflections and Practical Advice
- $34.00
- Remote Teaching and Learning: Reflections and Practical Advice presents fresh strategies and advice from faculty who were successful during the 2020–2021 period of remote instruction. Gain expert, proven insights from fellow colleagues that implemented effective teaching methods and see for yourself how you can use them in your own classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Help Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Are Practical Solutions for Managing My Online Teaching Workload?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Incorporate Best Practices into My Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars
- Contemplative Pedagogy for Purposeful Teaching
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who are frustrated with the rapid, "get-it-done" pivot to remote instruction, this Magna Online Seminar provides strategies and tactics to immediately incorporate contemplative pedagogy into your teaching practice to provide more meaningful instruction and interactions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Adapt My Teaching So Students Thrive in a Polysynchronous Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For teachers in any modality that are required to synchronously teach students in-person and virtually, this 20-Minute Mentor details how polysynchronous instruction can provide concrete tools for adapting teaching to both modalities to maximize through learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What are the Differences Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching, and How Do I Best Choose the Format for My Online Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty teaching online who want to better understand online modalities and what will be most effective for their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor offers verified strategies and expert advice on how to determine the best instructional format.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- What are Active Strategies for Structuring a Synchronous Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty teaching online in need of ideas to design and pace a synchronous classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor provides proven tips and strategies that address course design, instructional methods, and student engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Engage Students During a Synchronous Online Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty teaching online in need of ideas to increase student engagement, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers proven tips and strategies for synchronous instruction, organized into before, during, and after class time.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Using Microlearning to Improve Student Understanding of Course Content
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar details how microlearning differs from traditional learning, while also exploring the advantages of microlearning, and how to create microlearning modules using different tools.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Digital Library, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Faculty Support, Legal Concerns, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement, Personal Development, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Magna Seminar Series
- The Magna Seminar Series is a robust professional development series that is designed to save you time and money while also fueling your faculty with the tips, advice and encouragement they need. All 26 seminars included in this series allow for interactive questions and responses with the speakers, two-week access to each seminar, handouts, teaching materials and more.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Disruptive Innovation Impact STEM Education?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty and teachers, especially in STEM fields, who are looking to shift their teaching mindset from sustaining technologies to disruptive technologies, this 20-Minute Mentor will provide you with expert-guidance on how teaching disruptive technology in a STEM course can help students think more critically.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Strategies and Assignments for Blended and Flipped Classrooms
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If you are interested in shifting your classroom from face-to-face to a blended or flipped classroom, this online seminar provides actionable ideas, strategies, and assignments to effectively make the transition.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If you are hoping to assess student learning in real time in order to improve learning outcomes and student engagement, this online seminar offers more than 10 specific techniques for doing so, explained in detail, with examples of how to use each in the classroom.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars, Student Engagement
- Using Active Listening to Deepen Student Engagement in Live Remote Classes
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty teaching online who are having issues with their students being distracted and not engaging with their content, this special, reduced-price online seminar will provide multiple proven strategies for teaching active listening across various online teaching formats.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Discussion Responses Give Narrative Shape to an Online Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For online teachers who are looking to create a more useful and engaging discussion board that ties to course content, this 20-Minute Mentor provides practical strategies to manage the discussion board and use it to frame course content.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For online instructors or teachers who want to maximize learning without significantly adding to instructor workload, this 20-Minute Mentor details how comprehensive communication, grounded in pedagogy, can enhance learning even through simple tools such as course announcements.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty working online who have not considered using the discussion board beyond its basic function and are trying to avoid lifeless discussion boards that fail to engage students, this 20-Minute Mentor provides three areas for faculty to improve: engagement, community, and expertise, and specific strategies for doing so.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal Development
- The Advantages of Virtual Meetings
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Holding meetings online may be a necessity in times of remote work and social distancing, but have you considered that virtual meetings might have an advantage over the in-person alternative? This Magna Online Seminar reviews the pros and cons of virtual meetings and provides participants with tips and best practices leading to a successful virtual meeting.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal Development
- Taking My Career to the Next Level: Grant Writing Tips and Resources
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Research funding is critical yet many faculty do not know where to begin to look for funders. This Magna Online Seminar will cover the basics of and provide practical advice for applying for grants to fund research.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Blended and Flipped Course Design: Tried and True Approaches
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If you are interested in blended learning methods, especially the flipped classroom, and how they impact student learning, this Magna Online Seminar provides a thorough explanation of these concepts as well as practical advice for getting started.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal Development
- Taking My Career to the Next Level: Educational Consulting
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If you are curious about leveraging your higher-education experience into another career, this online seminar provides direct guidance about why and how to execute a career change from a former educator now leading a successful consulting practice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For online educators who want to assist students in effective note-taking in order to best succeed in learning content, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for educators to guide student note-taking specifically in the online classroom.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques
- $0.00
- For faculty and teachers in any modality, this free Magna Online Seminar will guide you in engaging college students at a deeper, more cognitive level while learning the barriers to learning and how to effectively overcome them.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For remote and online teachers who want to assess learning to keep students on track, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many ideas specific to online and remote teaching for activities, assignments, and assessments that gauge learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For educators who are new to teaching remote, synchronous classes and realize students are easily bored or distracted, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for engaging students immediately with games, activities, or polls.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For educators who are teaching during stressful times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and recognizing that both their students and they are disrupted by stress and anxiety, this special two-part Magna Online Seminar provides actionable ideas and tools for teaching with a trauma-sensitive approach.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and don’t see student engagement on the discussion boards, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable advice on creating questions that promote critical thinking and generate meaningful discussion.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For online instructors who are creating a new online course or converting their face to face course to an online course, this 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and are struggling with time management, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to plan and prioritize for the instructional activities that have the greatest impact on student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty teaching online, especially in a remote content delivery method who are struggling to find a meaningful way to hold office hours without overly scheduling themselves, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical advice that instructors can follow immediately to design, schedule, and facilitate online office hours to maximize students’ use.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in Online Courses
- What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For faculty teaching online courses who are interested in incorporating easy-to-use technology to enhance student learning, this 20-Minute Mentor describes five technologies, and includes the appropriate application and benefits of each, to create a personalized, interactive, impactful, and engaging learning experience
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For instructors who are new to teaching online who need guidance in creating a learning-centered online classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars
- “Help! I’m Moving My Course Online!”– Practical Advice for New Online Instructors
- $0.00
- Do you need to rapidly transition to online instruction? Can’t afford the trial and error approach? This free Magna Online Seminar will give you practical advice about the need-to-have basics for quickly and successfully transitioning your course online, from an experienced online educator.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Reimagining STEM Education Through a Humanities Lens
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For STEM educators who are striving to meet student interest in inclusive and meaning-centered education, this Magna Online Seminar provides concrete, evidence-based strategies and a framework for reimagining a STEM education through a humanities lens.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminars
- Learning from Pandemic Pedagogy: Best Practices for a Quick and Inclusive Transition to Online Teaching
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty transitioning to online delivery due to pandemic-related university policies and looking for guidance in good teaching practices in this uncertain environment, this Magna Online Seminar will assist in pedagogy for course conversion as well as help with inclusive practices that might have been overlooked.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Have you integrated inclusive pedagogies into your teaching and wonder what’s next? Are you ready to be more intentional about making your assignments and course content more equity-minded? This Magna Online Seminar will identify evidence-based approaches to add equity-minded content and improve the success of minoritized students in your disciplinary and institutional context.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminars, Technology in Online Courses
- An Online Educator’s Guide to Using Zoom Features to Enhance Student Interactivity
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you keep your online synchronous classroom from being simply lecture-based through a variety of interactive learning techniques that will keep your synchronous classroom buzzing.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Technology in the Classroom
- Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Through the use of open pedagogy and open syllabi, instructors can empower students to play a larger role in the development and curation of learning materials for their classes. In this Magna Online Seminar, we will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and open syllabi and discuss practical ways they have been successfully used in classroom settings with both commercial and open educational resource (OER) materials.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
- $39.00 – $697.00
- The best courses start with the end in mind. What will students learn or be able to do by the end of this class? This Magna Online Seminar helps you organize your workflow and equips you with the tools to line up your course learning elements with your student learning outcomes.
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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 – $697.00
- 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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- Books, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty
- Planning and Designing Your College Course
- $34.00
- Planning and Designing Your College Course focuses on the planning aspects that precede the launching of a course—the work instructors do behind the scenes and that students usually aren’t privy to. You’ll be able to make each key part of your course design learner-centered and obtain strategies to get students to collaborate in the course design process.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars
- Overcoming STEM Challenges When Designing Curriculum and Online Delivery
- $39.00 – $697.00
- It’s quite evident that improving retention and degree completion are complex tasks that involve the entire university structure. STEM education adds a layer of complexity that can be challenging when curriculum design and delivery modalities are changing toward an online system. This Magna Online Seminar will provide actionable advice on how to meet students’ interest in flexible learning options without compromising course quality or students’ achievement of mastering learning objectives.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Have you ever had difficulty getting students to complete required readings? Is it a challenge to get them to think more critically about the content? This Magna Online Seminar will introduce four methods for increasing your students’ engagement with course readings. Each method will be explored in detail, and all materials will be supplied for you to use these activities with your own classes.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
- $39.00
- This online seminar is designed for educators who are interested in learning about how they can teach their students despite the presence of trauma. Participants will acquire strategies they can use to help students continue their learning in the middle of this pandemic.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
- $39.00 – $697.00
- A tenured Universal Design for Learning (UDL) expert will discuss assessment alternatives based on UDL framework that are acceptable even in cases where instructors do not believe they have flexibility to change assessments.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $299.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- What does equity look like in the online classroom? This session will explore what it means to teach equitably and identifies five equitable practices that you can incorporate into your online courses.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Principles of Effective College Teaching
- $299.00
- This intensive Magna Online Course provides in-depth instruction on the myriad responsibilities of a college teacher. You'll find it an indispensable resource as you prepare to teach.
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- Faculty, Legal Concerns, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Legal Compliance in Higher Education
- $299.00
- Beyond explaining the letter of each law, Legal Compliance in Higher Education provides important insights on practical issues like managing the burden of compliance, handling requests for accommodation, providing support for survivors of assault, creating a culture of inclusivity, and fostering a safe and respectful campus community.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Teaching Non-Traditional Students: An Asset-Based Approach
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar helps you frame non-traditional students' life and work experiences as assets to leverage in the classroom. It explores some instructional design and delivery tactics you can use in classes that consist of mostly non-traditional students or those that have just a few.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Brief Interventions to Maximize Student Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn five fundamental principles of human learning and how to incorporate these principles into your current courses to immediately increase learning.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Classroom Assessment Techniques
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are simply proven strategies that instructors can use to determine whether and how well students are learning course material. This seminar prepares you for using formative assessments to improve student performance on critical summative assessments.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Designing Online Learning to Spark Intrinsic Motivation
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar helps you engage your students so they rediscover their natural curiosity and drive to learn. Learn how to incorporate specific instructional strategies that help students align their personal goals with your course content so they can see the value in learning what you teach.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Outcomes-Based Assessment of Teaching & Learning Centers
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar gives you a reliable framework for measuring tangible outcomes for your teaching and learning center and communicating these outcomes clearly to others.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Examine common question-writing pitfalls and learn item analysis, so you can examine the performance of your questions and determine how to refine them for next time.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Helping Students Succeed in a Large Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Despite what your nerves might try to tell you, a large class does not have to be a hard class to teach. This seminar covers everything you need to know to adequately prepare for, manage, and engage a large class.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Critical thinking is a skill that students in all disciplines must master. This seminar leads educators through the process of developing and teaching a discipline-based course that targets critical thinking skills and shows participants how to effectively encourage students to think for themselves.
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- Course Design Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to deliver fundamental course concepts in a way that helps develop the skills that students need in order to think like professionals in your discipline. This seminar helps you adjust your course design and components to focus on the most important materials and concepts and use them to foster engaging interactions during class.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Flex learning is the next evolution of blended learning. It enables students to learn in the way that works best for them. This seminar will show you how the flex model allows instructors to imaginatively redesign almost any course to better meet the needs of students and guide them toward greater academic success.
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- Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Everybody Present: Mindfulness in the Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- With so many easy interruptions to our concentration, it's no wonder that students can find it hard to follow a classroom discussion closely. This seminar increases your awareness of the power of mindfulness techniques to enhance the teaching experience for you and the learning experience of your students.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Below the Surface: Strategies for Deep and Lasting Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to identify and implement instructional strategies that hold students' attention, bolster retention rates, and lead to deep learning. This seminar gives you the classroom-tested strategies you need to keep your courses engaging and effective.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Prepared Students: The Secret’s in the Assignment Strategy
- $39.00 – $697.00
- It's no secret that prepared students learn more and achieve better outcomes. This Magna 40-Minute Seminar helps you identify why your students are not coming to class prepared and then determines what you can do about it.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices in Flipped Class Design
- $39.00 – $697.00
- See how the flipped learning model can meet the challenges of today's student body. This seminar gives you the knowledge about how flipped learning works in different disciplines and the conceptual tools for constructing a flipped classroom of your own.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Online Discussion: Practices to Boost Learning & Engagement
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Given the increase in online teaching, instructors need to make sure online discussion is genuinely promoting student engagement and helping reach the course's learning goals. Learn to use common coaching techniques to improve the quality of your online discussion groups, keep students on task, and advance learning.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate & Improve Your Teaching
- $39.00 – $697.00
- It is essential that faculty understand the best practices that underlie evaluations of effective online teaching. In this seminar, learn the strategies for garnering constructive feedback, make significant changes in the way you teach based on that feedback, and take more control for the results of your evaluations.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Educators who want to ensure that their students are engaging fully with the course material need specialized assessment tools to evaluate their progress and make changes efficiently. This seminar aims to show educators in flipped learning classrooms the assessment options available and how to use them for the best results.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Five Tips to Engage Students Outside of the Online Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- What if you could reach beyond the confines of the online classroom to engage more fully with your students? In this seminar, explore specific activities and projects that can help your students develop a deep, rich connection to your coursework and subject matter outside of the online classroom.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Choosing and Using Group Activities in the College Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Whether you teach in a traditional classroom or use flipped instruction strategies, group work can work for you. This seminar introduces you to three different group work methodologies and helps you identify which ones are appropriate for your course, your students, and your teaching style.
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- Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Dealing with Student Behaviors That Compromise Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Policies alone will not elicit the best work from your students. However, there are ways to help your students recognize how their behaviors affect their grades and their overall success. This seminar shows you how to adjust your teaching style and assignments to keep your students focused before, during, and after class.
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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teacher Persona
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar helps you understand how your teacher persona, the classroom dynamic, professional satisfaction, and options for communication intersect to enhance the learning and teaching environment.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Refresh Your Course with Straightforward Design Changes
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn a new set of strategies to help you support a refreshed course, as well as strategies for making measurable improvements over time without adding undue burdens to your schedule.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar teaches you innovative ways to think about the content that is critical for your students to learn and remember. Explore the mission of content in the classroom and how to use it to provide high-quality instruction.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Cultivate Resilience: Six Steps for Stress Inoculation
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If student affairs professionals want to avoid burning out, they need tools for maintaining and nurturing their own mental health and balance. And these tools can, in turn, be shared to equip students to do the same. You will be trained in Dr. Kristin L. Roush's comprehensive six-step process for releasing pent-up stress. You will see how to gain a more lighthearted perspective on daily challenges. You will discover how to let go of toxic feelings that self-injure and to construct a more joyful future.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Evidence-Based Teaching in Higher Education: Strategies to Improve Student Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Explore the results of research on teaching and learning and discover a range of practical strategies that can make your own teaching more evidence-based and, as a result, improve your students' ability to learn when they study.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Gain insights into what keeps students from participating in a discussion—and how to overcome those barriers. Explore strategies you can use to better structure each discussion for increased student involvement.
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- Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Faculty Members and FERPA, ADA Section 504, and Title IX: How to Use the Fundamentals of These Regulations to Better Identify and Resolve Potential Problems
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Get answers to questions on FERPA, ADA, and Title IX, and learn how to significantly reduce the likelihood of conflict in your interactions with students, and the risk of lawsuits that can be costly and time-consuming.
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- Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Managing Hot Moments and Difficult Discussions in the Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Gain proven strategies for managing difficult dialogue and responding to hot moments in the classroom. Learn how to prepare for a challenging discussion and make it more productive, as well as how to assess the outcomes of the experience and the impact it had on your students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How to Design and Facilitate Online Discussions that Improve Student Learning and Engagement
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn several design and facilitation ideas to help you create a better learning experience for your students. You'll see examples of online discussion activities, including student posts and instructor feedback to those posts as well as an assessment rubric template you can use to evaluate the quality of your online discussions and help you adapt what you learn in this webinar to your own online courses.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Classroom: Strategies to Overcome Student Resistance and Increase Student Engagement
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Explore strategies you can use to create a successful flipped learning experience for you and your students. Find out how to identify the reasons that some students resist the flipped classroom model and how you can address those challenges to increase the likelihood that they will come to class prepared.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $39.00 – $697.00
- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Universal Design for Learning: How to Improve Satisfaction and Retention for Students at All Learning Levels
- $39.00 – $697.00
- You'll learn how UDL helps improve the interactions you have with students and how those improvements can increase student retention, persistence, and satisfaction across all kinds of learners.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Large classes are an unpleasant fact of life on many college campuses. The challenge of teaching hundreds of students at a time in a single, lecture-style setting can be daunting. This online seminar, presented by Dr. Anthony Sweat of Brigham Young University, will reveal practical techniques for reaching your pedagogical goals in large classes.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Building Strategies for Competency-Based Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn an influential new approach to higher education from a veteran of federal education policy making. Discover sound arguments to help you gain support of resistant staff and step-by-step strategies that will equip you to start, administer, and teach a CBL degree program.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Discover simple strategies you can use every day, whether online or in the classroom, to ensure exams are not simply perceived as grade-generating mechanisms but instead recognized as enriched learning tools that will have a significant impact on student success.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Learning through Instructional Design
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar provides you with the tools to seamlessly transition from face-to-face courses to an online learning format.
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- Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Discover a fresh look at how you can help students sharpen their writing and function at a higher level of competence in an online community of learners.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn strategies to help you achieve performance targets while also restoring student engagement through a variety of practical, actionable teaching techniques.
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- Classroom Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Gain important insights into the ways you can create a classroom environment and a pedagogical approach that are responsive to the needs of all students and that contribute to an environment of mutual esteem and respect.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Motivate, Engage, and Inspire: Tips for Teaching Modern Learners
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Identify the teaching methods that work best for modern learners, including several strategies to better engage and motivate your Millennial students. You'll learn the five new Rs: Research, rationale, relaxed, rapport, and research-based methods. Delve in-depth into each R and why each one is critical to helping your modern students succeed.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Explore a variety of flipped and active learning strategies they can use in class to allow students to apply, analyze, and evaluate course content.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
- $39.00 – $697.00
- 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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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- You'll view and analyze effective and ineffective examples of Socratic questioning, so you can continue to support student learning through useful questioning techniques and avoid questions that stifle student inquiry and thinking.
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- Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Discover what the research has documented about the extent of academic entitlement. Is it associated with certain personality characteristics? Does it result from approaches taken to parenting? Are the attitudes cultivated in earlier educational experiences? Is there widespread agreement as to what it looks like when college students are acting and sounding entitled?
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn to be more mindful of how to critically access information. You will gain a toolbox of skills to apply to your own information use as well as that of your students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Discover 360-degree assessment as a multiple-input approach to feedback that can improve teaching outcomes for instructors and learning outcomes for students, maximize and enhance deep, meaningful learning, and promote achievement for both teachers and students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Create Influence Beyond Campus: Video Basics for Faculty
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn multiple ways to conceptualize video use in and out of the classroom. Explore video's role in various aspects of academic life, as well as how video can help establish your expertise and open opportunities beyond the classroom.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Building a Tougher Student: Applying the Research on Intellectual Development
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Explore how the way students think and learn has changed, as well as two research-based models and a set of strategies for using these models to build resilience and enhance critical thinking in your classroom.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Technology in the Classroom
- Students and Social Media: How Much is Too Much?
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will provide evidence-based, best practices and related information and insights that can be used immediately to respond more effectively and efficiently to the needs of students who are experiencing emotional and mental health challenges due to their extensive involvement with social media.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Participants will learn a series of low-risk, very easy to implement strategies, tips, and tools that they can implement to make their lectures more student-centered and engaging in order to promote higher level learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Examine the value of interdisciplinary thinking to solve learning challenges, discover how to apply creative approaches to your course outcomes and assessments, and discover new excitement for teaching and collaborating within your discipline.
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