Category: Faculty

Teaching Strategies and Professional Development for Teachers and Faculty

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- Faculty, Online Courses, Personal Development, Teaching Strategies, Virtual Workshop
- Mind Full to Mindful: Strategies to Enhance Teaching and Learning
- $389.00
- Do you want to enhance the learning environment for your students and yourself? Mindful strategies will help teachers become more self-aware, manage stress more effectively, improve decision-making skills, and engage students better. Mind Full to Mindful: Strategies to Enhance Teaching and Learning will show you how.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Support
- Applying Cultural Intelligence to Online Instruction to Maximize Student Success
- $299.00
- Learn to use Cultural Intelligence (CQ) to effectively identify, address, and manage cultural differences in the online classroom to create a more inclusive learning environment that will benefit students and impact retention and success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Harness the Power of Story to Create Classroom Community?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Sharing stories is a powerful tool for building connection in the classroom. Learn the connection between the power of stories and community while taking away three specific activities to create opportunity for storytelling in an academic classroom.
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- 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
- $299.00 – $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, Leadership, Leadership, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Personal Development, Strategic Planning
- Wellbeing Webinars
- $25.00
- This is your opportunity to join two higher education professionals and your peers in a live setting to discuss your choice of specific aspects of wellbeing and how it relates to your personally and professionally.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors
- $199.00
- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors sets teachers up for classroom success through an in-depth examination of five core principles of college teaching.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Planning and Designing a Course
- $199.00
- Effective course planning and design is the foundation of student engagement, learning, and success. Learn from expert educators as you refine and improve your courses with Practical Solutions for Faculty: Planning and Designing a Course.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Engaging Students
- $199.00
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Engaging Students is your one-stop shop for best practices and creative thinking to add engagement strategies to every stage of your teaching.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Flipping Your Classroom
- $199.00
- Practical Solutions of Faculty: Flipping Your Classroom features a collection of programs from teaching experts that will help guide you through the fundamentals of flipping your classroom. No matter if you are considering flipping your classroom or just looking to refine an existing one, you’ll get practical techniques for course design, delivery, and assessment.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Student Engagement
- Take Note: Strategies to Develop Student Note-Taking Skills
- $199.00
- Take a deep dive into the strategies you can use to make students better note-takers. Complete Take Note: Strategies to Develop Student Note-Taking Skills, and you’ll have the knowledge and tools to make a real impact on class preparation, exam performance, and student satisfaction!
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Specific Student Populations
- $199.00
- Meeting your students where they're most comfortable, and where they learn best, is something every educator can strive to do. Teaching Specific Student Populations will guide you making your teaching the most impactful and successful it can be by adapting your style to suit any student possible.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course
- $199.00
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course gives teachers the tools to light a path for their students. Benefit from research-based, classroom-tested best practices that can be immediately applied in the classroom.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $199.00
- 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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- Active and Engaged Students, Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Student Engagement, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Higher-Order Learning
- $199.00
- For faculty seeking guidance on shifting the focus from classroom learning to learning beyond college, this Magna Online Course provides practical strategies from experienced educators that will shift your students into a higher level of thinking and help them become lifelong learners.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Enrichment for Mid-Career Faculty
- $199.00
- If you’re thirsting for new ideas to take your teaching performance to new heights, Enrichment for Mid-Career Faculty will provide a wealth of insights to keep improving your teaching prowess.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Personal Development
- The Wellbeing Elixir
- $199.00
- 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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- Classroom Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Climate and Culture
- $199.00
- It’s been said that “you don’t know what you don’t know” and awareness of issues such as cultural differences, hidden disabilities, and trauma sensitivity will help educators reflect on their own implicit biases. Beyond providing awareness, Practical Solutions for Faculty: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Climate and Culture delivers strategies for teaching all students in a more inclusive and equitable way.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning
- $199.00
- For faculty looking to improve assessments and feedback to help students better succeed, this Magna Online Course provides practical solutions from experienced educators who understand the time restraints you face.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain seven assessment strategies to use in classrooms of any size and classes of any type that maintain the benefits of ungrading while effectively maintaining rigor and high academic standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Get practical tips for how ungrading can be brought to any classroom and how to get started while learning how ungrading takes the pressure away from high-stakes exams and instead creates a pathway for learning throughout the semester based on performance, feedback, and demonstrated growth.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- What Are 5 Ways H5P Tools Can Help Students Retain Course Content?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- If you are in need ideas to increase student engagement in your course, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates the value that H5P tools can provide, and examples of how to use them, to engage students in content and instructions in ways that improve comprehension and retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- What are 3 Calendar Hacks Faculty Can Use to Avoid Stress and Burnout?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows how using a calendar effectively can provide boundaries and freedom, turning burnout and stress into efficient time management and heightened productivity.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Pace DEI Work to See Subtle Gains Now and Significant Gains in the Future?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates experienced productivity strategies, used by a tenured expert in leading success large-scale Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, to better manage large projects and find short-term success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers meaningful, teacher-tested activities for the first day of class, that can easily be integrated into any course, which maximize the interest, investment, and interaction for students for the rest of the semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Discover how to integrate meaningful communication skills with instruction and reflection to enrich the online student learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities through service learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Student Engagement
- The Discussion Board and Beyond: How Can I Engage Students Online?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to overcome common challenges of online discussion boards while examining other options for engagement both by using the learning management system (LMS) and engaging students outside of the online classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Adapt 5 Popular Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to use the insights gained from using CATs to adjust future lessons and target your instruction to better meet the needs of your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who have mixed- or low-level reading skills among students combined with course materials that are reading intensive, this 20-Minute Mentor details skills to implement that help strengthen student reading as well as instructional techniques to intervene before students lag behind.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning
- $329.00
- For faculty looking to improve assessments and feedback to help students better succeed, this Magna Online Course provides practical solutions from experienced educators who understand the time restraints you face.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Online Student Engagement, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Higher-Order Learning
- $329.00
- For faculty seeking guidance on shifting the focus from classroom learning to learning beyond college, this Magna Online Course provides practical strategies from experienced educators that will shift your students into a higher level of thinking and help them become lifelong learners.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For teachers whose students are struggling to keep up with course content, pace, and assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor provides effective strategies for engaging students, assessing progress and comprehension, and promoting a growth mindset.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development, Teaching Strategies
- How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty desiring to improve student success by creating a more student-focused approach to teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers strategies that address diversity through the adaptation of content, instruction, and materials of Culturally Responsive Teaching and its link to student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty whose students are not applying feedback beyond a specific assignment, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how by creating a dialogue around feedback, students will learn not only what needs correcting in a specific assignment, but how to apply this learning to future assignment as well. Learn how to combine feedback with student engagement to create meaningful learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- How Can I Apply a Resilient Mindset to My Teaching Practice?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty experiencing burnout from tough pandemic teaching conditions, this 20-Minute Mentor shows you how one educator embraced resiliency to create a positive outlook in a difficult time.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Did We Learn from Pandemic Teaching and What Are We Keeping as We Move On?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- While hard to realize, the pandemic was a time of instructional learning and growth. This 20-Minute Mentor guides faculty in choosing the best improvements to keep as you move on to classroom teaching.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can I Teach with Confidence in the Hyflex Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who must teach hyflex sessions, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers specific and creative engagement tactics to enhance engagement in each setting to bring the entire class together in achieving academic success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who feel overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how the benefits of hyflex teaching outweigh the challenges for both teachers and students alike while delivering time saving successful strategies to employ.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Are Best Practices for Hyflex Course Design and Delivery?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty not understanding or being overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor provides clarity on steps to take in both planning and instructing a hyflex course as well as successful tips for engaging students in hyflex learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Student Engagement
- How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty whose syllabi are often unread by students, leading to confusion and even misinformation later in the course, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how to make a visually appealing syllabus that quickly communicates crucial course details to students in an engaging way.
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- Faculty, Learning Path, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Online Teaching and Learning
- $99.00
- This program delivers expert advice on a multitude of online teaching strategies to maximize your teaching impact in the online environment.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Learning Path, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Inclusive Teaching
- $99.00
- This program provides innovative ideas for equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives to support underrepresented students and teaching strategies for unique student populations.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Learning Path, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Preparing Your Course
- $99.00
- This program guides your students to success by incorporating best practices for learning into your courses through numerous expert presentations of effective strategies.
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- Faculty, Learning Path, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Technology Tools for Teaching
- $99.00
- This program explores the effective use of implementing new technology tools for teaching into your classroom.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Learning Path, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Assessing Learning
- $99.00
- This program focuses on assignments, assessments, and grading practices and strategies designed to measure students’ accomplishment of course objectives and learning outcomes.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Learning Path, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Student Engagement
- $99.00
- This program invites enthusiasm and participation in learning through focusing on the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dimensions of student engagement.
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- Faculty, Learning Path, Personal Development, Teaching Professor Conference On-Demand
- Teaching Professor Conference 2021 On-Demand: Educational Development
- $99.00
- This program focuses on positive changes and practices that will invigorate mid- and late-career faculty.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Courses, Personal Development, Teaching Strategies, Virtual Workshop
- A Vision, A Goal, A Plan: A Framework for Inclusive and Effective Teaching
- $389.00
- This virtual workshop provides faculty the necessary time and guidance to define student success for their students and what exact steps to take to make that vision a reality - all determined by a proven method of seven effective teaching methods.
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- Classroom Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Design and Teach an Equitable and Inclusive Course
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar provides a five-point framework to establish inclusive teaching practices and expand faculty’s inclusivity mindset.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use Everyday Interactions to Instill a Growth Mindset in Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers practical advice from an experienced educator who has learned to change her communication with students in order to build small moments of opportunity for shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset.
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- Faculty, Online Courses, Personal Development, Wellbeing
- The Wellbeing Elixir
- $329.00
- Help your team fight anxiety, burnout, and other mental health challenges Now’s the Time to Make Mental Health a Priority for Your Faculty and Staff One thing that is common across higher education right now is burnout. This is a sensitive issue because it affects everyone differently and no one really wants to talk about it very much. What would happen if your faculty and staff were rejuvenated and fully ready to meet the challenges ahead? What if they could spend one hour a month to get the well-being guidance, they so desperately need from education experts? How would that impact productivity on your campus? Right now, Magna is offering a special course presented by educators, for educators.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- What Are Best Practices for Online Pedagogy?
- $29.00 – $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, 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?
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who 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
- $29.00 – $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
- How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
- $29.00 – $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
- $329.00
- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty whose students are not retaining course concepts for the duration of the semester, this Magna Online Seminar explains interleaving content during instruction and studying to improve student success through increased content retention.
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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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Increasing Inclusion and Interaction: Disabilities in the College Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who must accommodate the needs of students with disabilities, the Magna Online Seminar introduces small pedagogical changes that will improve the experience for all learners.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using Student Feedback to Immediately Improve Teaching
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty teaching online having trouble engaging students and missing 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, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Ensure Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- How Can I Develop Opportunity-minded Learners?
- $29.00 – $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, Personal Development
- How Can I Be a More Productive and Effective Teacher?
- $29.00 – $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
- How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
- $29.00 – $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
- How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
- $29.00 – $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
- $329.00
- 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
- $329.00
- 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
- $329.00
- 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
- $29.00 – $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!
- $29.00 – $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
- $329.00
- 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
- $329.00
- 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
- How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Effectively Move Peer Reviews Online?
- $29.00 – $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
- $329.00
- 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
- $39.00
- 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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Help Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Are Practical Solutions for Managing My Online Teaching Workload?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Incorporate Best Practices into My Online Teaching?
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Adapt My Teaching So Students Thrive in a Polysynchronous Classroom?
- $29.00 – $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, 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?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- What are Active Strategies for Structuring a Synchronous Class?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Engage Students During a Synchronous Online Class?
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can Disruptive Innovation Impact STEM Education?
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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 
- $0.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Discussion Responses Give Narrative Shape to an Online Class?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
- $29.00 – $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 – $197.00
- 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, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
- $29.00 – $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, Personal Development
- How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $29.00 – $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, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
- $29.00 – $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
- How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
- $29.00 – $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, Technology in Online Courses
- What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
- $29.00 – $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, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Dynamic and Effective Teaching Through Applied Improvisation
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Get a new take on active learning! This Magna Online Seminar gives instructors the confidence to bring improvisational theatre techniques to the university classroom and apply them to create meaningful connections with students, leading to deeper learning of classroom material.
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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 – $197.00
- 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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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 pandemic 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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $39.00
- 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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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $29.00 – $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
- $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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
- $29.00 – $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
- $329.00
- 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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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Brief Interventions to Maximize Student Learning
- $29.00 – $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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Designing Online Learning to Spark Intrinsic Motivation
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Outcomes-Based Assessment of Teaching & Learning Centers
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
- $29.00 – $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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $29.00 – $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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Everybody Present: Mindfulness in the Classroom
- $29.00 – $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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices in Flipped Class Design
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Online Discussion: Practices to Boost Learning & Engagement
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate & Improve Your Teaching
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Five Tips to Engage Students Outside of the Online Classroom
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Choosing and Using Group Activities in the College Classroom
- $29.00 – $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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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teacher Persona
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development, Student Affairs/Student Services, Student Wellbeing
- Cultivate Resilience: Six Steps for Stress Inoculation
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Evidence-Based Teaching in Higher Education: Strategies to Improve Student Learning
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
- $29.00 – $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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- Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Managing Hot Moments and Difficult Discussions in the Classroom
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How to Design and Facilitate Online Discussions that Improve Student Learning and Engagement
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Classroom: Strategies to Overcome Student Resistance and Increase Student Engagement
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Universal Design for Learning: How to Improve Satisfaction and Retention for Students at All Learning Levels
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
- $29.00 – $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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Learning through Instructional Design
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
- $29.00 – $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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Create Influence Beyond Campus: Video Basics for Faculty
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Building a Tougher Student: Applying the Research on Intellectual Development
- $29.00 – $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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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
- $29.00 – $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, On-Demand Seminars
- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $29.00 – $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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Teaching to the Core: Ensuring the Success of Professional-Track Students
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to set students up for success by employing alternative lessons, using a blended and supportive curriculum, and teaching students individually. You'll review core competencies required by CODA/ACEN and explore strategies for assisting students with different learning challenges.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Three Secrets to Building Diverse and Inclusive Online Learning Environments
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Through the strategies discussed in this Magna Online Seminar, you'll come away better prepared to increase student participation and engagement in a diverse online classroom, equipped with strategies that increase student inclusion in the online environment, and ready to create culturally responsive social presence in the online space.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Four Common Teaching Traps and How to Avoid Them
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to identify each of the four most common teaching problems, explore their implications, and understand warning signs and solution. Discover how to recognize misalignment, expert blind spots, content overload, and over-identification.
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- Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- What are Microaggressions and What Can I Do About Them?
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar offers an understanding of microaggressions in the classroom, strategies to take when they occur, and suggestions on how to create a classroom climate that limits them.
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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
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Explore practical strategies to plan group tasks so that our neurodiverse learners can successfully contribute to collaborative learning activities.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching About Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in Secular Studies Classes
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn to create classroom environments that promote academic discussions of faith as a form of personal identity, diversity, belief, motivation, culture-community, privilege, and oppression.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $29.00 – $697.00
- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this Magna Online Seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Building Professionalism in Professional-track Students
- $29.00 – $697.00
- In this Magna Online Seminar, you will be able to identify what professionalism is and present various methods for teaching and evaluating professionalism on campus and in the clinical environment.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Understanding and Educating Generation Z Students
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you understand how Generation Z is transforming your campus culture and how this generation will represent your institution as future alumni.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Planning by the Calendar
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to take a more holistic view of your courses by shifting your mindset beyond content to consider course rhythms and the natural ebbs and flows of student motivation.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Build International Student Success with Intercultural Awareness
- $29.00 – $697.00
- 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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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar offers a glimpse into how Wikipedia can empower students to share their knowledge with the world around them. Through real-life strategies and helpful background information, this seminar shows you how to use a tool you already understand in a new way to increase student engagement, boost critical thinking, and improve information literacy.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Talking about Student Evaluation Results: What to Say and How to Say It
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Explore ways to communicate about rating results using three scenarios based on common situations, with the goal of making the exchange a constructive conversation about teaching and learning.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
- $29.00 – $697.00
- 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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- Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover concrete practices you can use right away to communicate expectations clearly for student ethical conduct, which are much more effective than spending time trying to catch cheaters after the fact.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Technology in the Classroom
- Student Technology Skills: Expectations vs. Reality
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar seeks to reveal the truth about students digital literacy and will examine the potential disparity between campus curriculum and employers expectations. Learn strategies for (re)implementing basic, necessary digital-literacy to help meet students learning needs without straying from your scheduled curricula.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Online Engagement and Assimilation Strategies For Nontraditional and Marginalized Students
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to increase support for marginalized students taking online courses. The strategies and discussions presented will support diverse populations and increase positive learning outcomes in online environments.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 7 Things to Consider Before Developing an Online Course
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar gives you strategies to maximize your planning and design timeframe—all leading to a more efficient course (i.e. less stress for you when you're teaching) and a better experience for your students.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover ideas that you will be able to incorporate almost immediately from an educator who has successfully implemented meaningful feedback and effective grading approaches in large-section classes.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you motivate, engage, and connect with the students and learners that inhabit the environments in which you teach and lead.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Reaching Neurodiverse Students: Course Creation Strategies
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover that neurodiverse differences often are not openly declared and might be hard to recognize in individuals in a classroom of students. Explore the common barriers to learning experienced by neurodiverse students and learn strategies to build content and environments that support breaking down those barriers and improving learning for all students.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies for Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration in Large Online Courses
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Explore essential topics including strategies for building a cohesive online learning community, increasing faculty online presence, and getting students actively engaged in learning. This Magna Online Seminar will also address technology for online communication, collaboration, and engagement.
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- Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Foster Creative and Critical Thinking Through Intrinsic Motivation
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will provide a variety of highly motivating learning design strategies that foster both creative and critical thinking.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Time Management for Faculty and Students in Flipped Learning Environments
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you with time management before your course starts and as you teach. Discover how to use time wisely during the class meeting in order to tap into the maximum benefits of active learning.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar explores swift trust, its benefits, and methods of building it within any course (face-to-face and online).
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- Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Facilitating Success: A Guide to Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- 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 sensitive classroom, and strategies to evolve the learning environment and avoid re-traumatization.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who struggle with engaging content delivery, this Magna Online Seminar gives specific, practical steps to add enthusiasm and excitement to lectures and presentations.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- 7 Indispensable Strategies to Build Community in Your Online Courses
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover a variety of strategies to utilize to build and maintain a sense of community in online courses and create a better course experience for both student and instructor.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar discusses the purpose and best practices of course outcome design while identifying and refining the course outcomes in your own program, course, or unit.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Preparing Students for Thoughtful, Ethical Decision Making
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar addresses ways faculty can provide students with skills to identify and contend with ethical matters in specific disciplines and professions, civic life, and as part of the educational process (including academic integrity and interpersonal interactions).
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar presents a framework of expert-level teaching practices, all backed by the science of how our brains learn. Adopting three elements of a constructivist teaching approach can help to make learners more active, curious, and engaged, all while reducing your workload as an instructor.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- Online Learning That Sticks: Strategies to Shift to Student-Centered Learning
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar invites you to peek behind the classroom doors and LMS screen of college and university instructors who win national teaching awards to find out what they do that is so different.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover how changing instruction from using traditional text to adding graphic novel(s) can open communication with different student groups and also develop skills, such as visual literacy, in all students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will provide strategies to apply adult learner principles in online courses to enable high expectations and promote student success across diverse adult learners.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Course Design Strategies to Increase Student Completion Rates
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This seminar offers practical course design strategies to facilitate equitable learning opportunities for all learners by leveraging transparent design and Universal Design for Learning principles.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will detail interactive lecturing, a model for combining lectures and active learning techniques in a way that can engage students and improve their learning.
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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
- $29.00 – $697.00
- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is perfect for those of you who are just a little lost, a little confused, or really want a glimpse of course planning with a real-life instructional designer. This seminar will focus on the prep work that happens before the syllabus is given to students.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Practical Ways to Support First-Generation College Students in the College Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- In this Magna Online Seminar, you will learn about the challenges that exist for first-generation college students and the support structures that can help them succeed.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching Underprepared Students to Take Control of Their Learning by Developing Metacognitive Skills
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty faced with an increasing number of underprepared students, this Magna Online Seminar helps them purposefully instill and foster metacognition and self-regulation in students through research-based strategies.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Technology in the Classroom
- Understanding Open Educational Resources (OER): A Powerful Solution for Both Faculty and Students
- $29.00 – $697.00
- In this online seminar, we'll examine the research on Open Educational Resources (OER) usage in collegiate classes and their impact on student retention and success.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Hidden Disabilities: Navigating the Need for Disability Support on Campus
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Cognitive disabilities are often hidden—if not disclosed by the student, then an educator may not be aware of the barriers to learning that exist. This online seminar addresses some of the most common eligible accommodations to assist students with disabilities and how to use these accommodations in the classroom.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For educators teaching large-session classes who are interested in implementing mastery learning but feel restricted by the instructor/student ratio, this online seminar offers strategies to implement mastery learning assessments in large enrollment classes.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Humor to Engage Students in the Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For teaching professors who are faced with student apathy or lack of engagement, this online seminar provides a strategy based on humor that not only increases student engagement, but also contributes to students' improved recall, comprehension, and satisfaction.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Tools and Techniques for Improving Course Accessibility
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Research suggests that at-risk learners often benefit from reading—as well as listening to—lectures and presentations. The technology already exists. We show you various activities to help you understand the benefits and applications of transcription technology.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Diversity is the name of the game in higher education today, but facilitating a genuinely multicultural classroom requires more than a fresh set of labels. Learn the four key points of entry into multicultural course design. You will be guided through a framework for creating and sustaining an inclusive classroom.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor
- $29.00 – $697.00
- We explain not only what today's students believe are the most essential qualities for effective teaching, but also prepare you to make simple and sometimes subtle changes to incorporate or develop practices and traits that resonate with students and yield improved academic outcomes.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Considering the Courage and Practice of Teaching
- $29.00 – $197.00
- Parker Palmer, PhD, and Maryellen Weimer, PhD, talk about the underpinnings of their approaches to their work as teachers. They discuss the critical role of self-knowledge as a precursor to your work with students, as well as why it is the key to growth and development as teachers.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Approach to a Learner-Centered Class
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn the skills needed to become more learner-centered and flip your classroom.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Universal Design: Five Steps to Make Your Course Accessible
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Accessibility is not just about disability. It is about increasing learning for all students. Ultimately, it is about student success. Most instructors can improve access to their curricula simply by examining their assumptions and making slight modifications to methods and practices. Learn how in this online seminar.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for the Flipped Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Flipped classes are popular because they can be very effective learning environments. Instructors using flipped lessons must be careful to plan and structure the environment to support student learning. It is critical to integrate and relate the learning outcomes, activities, and assessment strategies to ensure that pre-class work supports the in-class work. This seminar gives you assessment strategies.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do About It
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover what you need to do to reframe your attitudes about and revise your approach to academic dishonesty in this seminar.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Helping Introverts Thrive in an Active Learning Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn a developmental approach to active learning that will help you create a comfortable environment for introverts and extroverts alike.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Approach to Online Teaching and Learning
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to flip your online courses by analyzing models for the flipped class and exploring how to expand and adapt these definitions to include online learning environments.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty,