Category: Faculty

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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Digital Library, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Faculty Support, Legal Concerns, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement, Personal Development, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Magna Seminar Series
- ~~$1,297.00~~ $997.00
- The Magna Seminar Series is a robust professional development series that is designed to save you time and money while also fueling your faculty with the tips, advice and encouragement they need. All 26 seminars included in this series allow for interactive questions and responses with the speakers, two-week access to each seminar, handouts, teaching materials and more.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Disruptive Innovation Impact STEM Education?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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 
- $297.00 – $497.00
- If you are hoping to assess student learning in real time in order to improve learning outcomes and student engagement, this online seminar offers more than 10 specific techniques for doing so, explained in detail, with examples of how to use each in the classroom.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars, Student Engagement
- Using Active Listening to Deepen Student Engagement in Live Remote Classes
- $39.00 – $497.00
- For faculty teaching online who are having issues with their students being distracted and not engaging with their content, this special, reduced-price online seminar will provide multiple proven strategies for teaching active listening across various online teaching formats.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Discussion Responses Give Narrative Shape to an Online Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online teachers who are looking to create a more useful and engaging discussion board that ties to course content, this 20-Minute Mentor provides practical strategies to manage the discussion board and use it to frame course content.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online instructors or teachers who want to maximize learning without significantly adding to instructor workload, this 20-Minute Mentor details how comprehensive communication, grounded in pedagogy, can enhance learning even through simple tools such as course announcements.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- If you are curious about leveraging your higher-education experience into another career, this online seminar provides direct guidance about why and how to execute a career change from a former educator now leading a successful consulting practice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online educators who want to assist students in effective note-taking in order to best succeed in learning content, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for educators to guide student note-taking specifically in the online classroom.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques
- $0.00
- For faculty and teachers in any modality, this free Magna Online Seminar will guide you in engaging your students at a deeper, more cognitive level while learning the barriers to learning and how to effectively overcome them.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For remote and online teachers who want to assess learning to keep students on track, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many ideas specific to online and remote teaching for activities, assignments, and assessments that gauge learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For educators who are new to teaching remote, synchronous classes and realize students are easily bored or distracted, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for engaging students immediately with games, activities, or polls.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- For educators who are teaching during stressful times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and recognizing that both their students and they are disrupted by stress and anxiety, this special two-part Magna Online Seminar provides actionable ideas and tools for teaching with a trauma-sensitive approach.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and don’t see student engagement on the discussion boards, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable advice on creating questions that promote critical thinking and generate meaningful discussion.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online instructors who are creating a new online course or converting their face to face course to an online course, this 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and are struggling with time management, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to plan and prioritize for the instructional activities that have the greatest impact on student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty teaching online, especially in a remote content delivery method who are struggling to find a meaningful way to hold office hours without overly scheduling themselves, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical advice that instructors can follow immediately to design, schedule, and facilitate online office hours to maximize students’ use.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in Online Courses
- What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty teaching online courses who are interested in incorporating easy-to-use technology to enhance student learning, this 20-Minute Mentor describes five technologies, and includes the appropriate application and benefits of each, to create a personalized, interactive, impactful, and engaging learning experience
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For instructors who are new to teaching online who need guidance in creating a learning-centered online classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars
- “Help! I’m Moving My Course Online!”– Practical Advice for New Online Instructors
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- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- For faculty transitioning to online delivery due to pandemic-related university policies and looking for guidance in good teaching practices in this uncertain environment, this Magna Online Seminar will assist in pedagogy for course conversion as well as help with inclusive practices that might have been overlooked.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Only a few months ago, educators across the world were plunged into the world of distance learning with very little and often no training whatsoever. As teachers and administrators prepare for the Fall 2020 semester, 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Emotions are strongly linked to how we pay attention, focus, engage, remember, and learn. This online seminar will present practical strategies for putting the power of emotions to work in online classes to help capture and hold students’ attention, better engage students in their learning, and ultimately help them persist and succeed.
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- Books, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty
- Planning and Designing Your College Course
- $34.00
- Planning and Designing Your College Course focuses on the planning aspects that precede the launching of a course—the work instructors do behind the scenes and that students usually aren’t privy to. You’ll be able to make each key part of your course design learner-centered and obtain strategies to get students to collaborate in the course design process.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars
- Overcoming STEM Challenges When Designing Curriculum and Online Delivery
- $297.00 – $497.00
- It’s quite evident that improving retention and degree completion are complex tasks that involve the entire university structure. STEM education adds a layer of complexity that can be challenging when curriculum design and delivery modalities are changing toward an online system. This Magna Online Seminar will provide actionable advice on how to meet students’ interest in flexible learning options without compromising course quality or students’ achievement of mastering learning objectives.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Have you ever had difficulty getting students to complete required readings? Is it a challenge to get them to think more critically about the content? This Magna Online Seminar will introduce four methods for increasing your students’ engagement with course readings. Each method will be explored in detail, and all materials will be supplied for you to use these activities with your own classes.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
- $39.00
- This online seminar is designed for educators who are interested in learning about how they can teach their students despite the presence of trauma. Participants will acquire strategies they can use to help students continue their learning in the middle of this pandemic.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Teaching Non-Traditional Students: An Asset-Based Approach
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar helps you frame non-traditional students' life and work experiences as assets to leverage in the classroom. It explores some instructional design and delivery tactics you can use in classes that consist of mostly non-traditional students or those that have just a few.
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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Brief Interventions to Maximize Student Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn five fundamental principles of human learning and how to incorporate these principles into your current courses to immediately increase learning.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Classroom Assessment Techniques
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are simply proven strategies that instructors can use to determine whether and how well students are learning course material. This seminar prepares you for using formative assessments to improve student performance on critical summative assessments.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Designing Online Learning to Spark Intrinsic Motivation
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar helps you engage your students so they rediscover their natural curiosity and drive to learn. Learn how to incorporate specific instructional strategies that help students align their personal goals with your course content so they can see the value in learning what you teach.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Outcomes-Based Assessment of Teaching & Learning Centers
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar gives you a reliable framework for measuring tangible outcomes for your teaching and learning center and communicating these outcomes clearly to others.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Examine common question-writing pitfalls and learn item analysis, so you can examine the performance of your questions and determine how to refine them for next time.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Helping Students Succeed in a Large Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Despite what your nerves might try to tell you, a large class does not have to be a hard class to teach. This seminar covers everything you need to know to adequately prepare for, manage, and engage a large class.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Critical thinking is a skill that students in all disciplines must master. This seminar leads educators through the process of developing and teaching a discipline-based course that targets critical thinking skills and shows participants how to effectively encourage students to think for themselves.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Design Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn how to deliver fundamental course concepts in a way that helps develop the skills that students need in order to think like professionals in your discipline. This seminar helps you adjust your course design and components to focus on the most important materials and concepts and use them to foster engaging interactions during class.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Flex learning is the next evolution of blended learning. It enables students to learn in the way that works best for them. This seminar will show you how the flex model allows instructors to imaginatively redesign almost any course to better meet the needs of students and guide them toward greater academic success.
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- Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Everybody Present: Mindfulness in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- With so many easy interruptions to our concentration, it's no wonder that students can find it hard to follow a classroom discussion closely. This seminar increases your awareness of the power of mindfulness techniques to enhance the teaching experience for you and the learning experience of your students.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Below the Surface: Strategies for Deep and Lasting Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn how to identify and implement instructional strategies that hold students' attention, bolster retention rates, and lead to deep learning. This seminar gives you the classroom-tested strategies you need to keep your courses engaging and effective.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Prepared Students: The Secret’s in the Assignment Strategy
- $297.00 – $497.00
- It's no secret that prepared students learn more and achieve better outcomes. This Magna 40-Minute Seminar helps you identify why your students are not coming to class prepared and then determines what you can do about it.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices in Flipped Class Design
- $297.00 – $497.00
- See how the flipped learning model can meet the challenges of today's student body. This seminar gives you the knowledge about how flipped learning works in different disciplines and the conceptual tools for constructing a flipped classroom of your own.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Online Discussion: Practices to Boost Learning & Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Given the increase in online teaching, instructors need to make sure online discussion is genuinely promoting student engagement and helping reach the course's learning goals. Learn to use common coaching techniques to improve the quality of your online discussion groups, keep students on task, and advance learning.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate & Improve Your Teaching
- $297.00 – $497.00
- It is essential that faculty understand the best practices that underlie evaluations of effective online teaching. In this seminar, learn the strategies for garnering constructive feedback, make significant changes in the way you teach based on that feedback, and take more control for the results of your evaluations.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Educators who want to ensure that their students are engaging fully with the course material need specialized assessment tools to evaluate their progress and make changes efficiently. This seminar aims to show educators in flipped learning classrooms the assessment options available and how to use them for the best results.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Student Engagement
- Five Tips to Engage Students Outside of the Online Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- What if you could reach beyond the confines of the online classroom to engage more fully with your students? In this seminar, explore specific activities and projects that can help your students develop a deep, rich connection to your coursework and subject matter outside of the online classroom.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Choosing and Using Group Activities in the College Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Whether you teach in a traditional classroom or use flipped instruction strategies, group work can work for you. This seminar introduces you to three different group work methodologies and helps you identify which ones are appropriate for your course, your students, and your teaching style.
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- Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Dealing with Student Behaviors That Compromise Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Policies alone will not elicit the best work from your students. However, there are ways to help your students recognize how their behaviors affect their grades and their overall success. This seminar shows you how to adjust your teaching style and assignments to keep your students focused before, during, and after class.
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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teacher Persona
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar helps you understand how your teaching persona, the classroom dynamic, professional satisfaction, and options for communication intersect to enhance the learning and teaching environment.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Refresh Your Course with Straightforward Design Changes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn a new set of strategies to help you support a refreshed course, as well as strategies for making measurable improvements over time without adding undue burdens to your schedule.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars
- Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar teaches you innovative ways to think about the content that is critical for your students to learn and remember. Explore the mission of content in the classroom and how to use it to provide high-quality instruction.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Cultivate Resilience: Six Steps for Stress Inoculation
- $297.00 – $497.00
- If student affairs professionals want to avoid burning out, they need tools for maintaining and nurturing their own mental health and balance. And these tools can, in turn, be shared to equip students to do the same. You will be trained in Dr. Kristin L. Roush's comprehensive six-step process for releasing pent-up stress. You will see how to gain a more lighthearted perspective on daily challenges. You will discover how to let go of toxic feelings that self-injure and to construct a more joyful future.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars
- Evidence-Based Teaching in Higher Education: Strategies to Improve Student Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore the results of research on teaching and learning and discover a range of practical strategies that can make your own teaching more evidence-based and, as a result, improve your students' ability to learn when they study.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Gain insights into what keeps students from participating in a discussion—and how to overcome those barriers. Explore strategies you can use to better structure each discussion for increased student involvement.
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- Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Faculty Members and FERPA, ADA Section 504, and Title IX: How to Use the Fundamentals of These Regulations to Better Identify and Resolve Potential Problems
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Get answers to questions on FERPA, ADA, and Title IX, and learn how to significantly reduce the likelihood of conflict in your interactions with students, and the risk of lawsuits that can be costly and time-consuming.
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- Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Managing Hot Moments and Difficult Discussions in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Gain proven strategies for managing difficult dialogue and responding to hot moments in the classroom. Learn how to prepare for a challenging discussion and make it more productive, as well as how to assess the outcomes of the experience and the impact it had on your students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How to Design and Facilitate Online Discussions that Improve Student Learning and Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn several design and facilitation ideas to help you create a better learning experience for your students. You'll see examples of online discussion activities, including student posts and instructor feedback to those posts as well as an assessment rubric template you can use to evaluate the quality of your online discussions and help you adapt what you learn in this webinar to your own online courses.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars
- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Classroom: Strategies to Overcome Student Resistance and Increase Student Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore strategies you can use to create a successful flipped learning experience for you and your students. Find out how to identify the reasons that some students resist the flipped classroom model and how you can address those challenges to increase the likelihood that they will come to class prepared.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Universal Design for Learning: How to Improve Satisfaction and Retention for Students at All Learning Levels
- $297.00 – $497.00
- You'll learn how UDL helps improve the interactions you have with students and how those improvements can increase student retention, persistence, and satisfaction across all kinds of learners.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Large classes are an unpleasant fact of life on many college campuses. The challenge of teaching hundreds of students at a time in a single, lecture-style setting can be daunting. This online seminar, presented by Dr. Anthony Sweat of Brigham Young University, will reveal practical techniques for reaching your pedagogical goals in large classes.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Building Strategies for Competency-Based Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn an influential new approach to higher education from a veteran of federal education policy making. Discover sound arguments to help you gain support of resistant staff and step-by-step strategies that will equip you to start, administer, and teach a CBL degree program.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Discover simple strategies you can use every day, whether online or in the classroom, to ensure exams are not simply perceived as grade-generating mechanisms but instead recognized as enriched learning tools that will have a significant impact on student success.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Learning through Instructional Design
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar provides you with the tools to seamlessly transition from face-to-face courses to an online learning format.
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- Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Discover a fresh look at how you can help students sharpen their writing and function at a higher level of competence in an online community of learners.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Gain important insights into the ways you can create a classroom environment and a pedagogical approach that are responsive to the needs of all students and that contribute to an environment of mutual esteem and respect.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Motivate, Engage, and Inspire: Tips for Teaching Modern Learners
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Identify the teaching methods that work best for modern learners, including several strategies to better engage and motivate your Millennial students. You'll learn the five new Rs: Research, rationale, relaxed, rapport, and research-based methods. Delve in-depth into each R and why each one is critical to helping your modern students succeed.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore a variety of flipped and active learning strategies they can use in class to allow students to apply, analyze, and evaluate course content.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Gain a variety of strategies to create discussion board activities that your students find interesting and also strategies to effectively facilitate discussions and manage the workload related to reading and grading posts.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- You'll view and analyze effective and ineffective examples of Socratic questioning, so you can continue to support student learning through useful questioning techniques and avoid questions that stifle student inquiry and thinking.
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- Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Discover what the research has documented about the extent of academic entitlement. Is it associated with certain personality characteristics? Does it result from approaches taken to parenting? Are the attitudes cultivated in earlier educational experiences? Is there widespread agreement as to what it looks like when college students are acting and sounding entitled?
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn to be more mindful of how to critically access information. You will gain a toolbox of skills to apply to your own information use as well as that of your students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Existing pedagogical approaches to feedback often miss the mark in terms of their effectiveness in improving learning outcomes. The 360-degree assessment is a multiple-input approach to feedback that can improve teaching outcomes for instructors and learning outcomes for students, maximize and enhance deep, meaningful learning, and promote achievement for both teachers and students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Create Influence Beyond Campus: Video Basics for Faculty
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn multiple ways to conceptualize video use in and out of the classroom. Explore video's role in various aspects of academic life, as well as how video can help establish your expertise and open opportunities beyond the classroom.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Building a Tougher Student: Applying the Research on Intellectual Development
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore how the way students think and learn has changed, as well as two research-based models and a set of strategies for using these models to build resilience and enhance critical thinking in your classroom.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Technology in the Classroom
- Students and Social Media: How Much is Too Much?
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This seminar will provide evidence-based, best practices and related information and insights that can be used immediately to respond more effectively and efficiently to the needs of students who are experiencing emotional and mental health challenges due to their extensive involvement with social media.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Participants will learn a series of low-risk, very easy to implement strategies, tips, and tools that they can implement to make their lectures more student-centered and engaging in order to promote higher level learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $147.00 – $347.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Teaching to the Core: Ensuring the Success of Professional-Track Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Three Secrets to Building Diverse and Inclusive Online Learning Environments
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn how to apply culturally responsive teaching strategies to the online environment. The strategies presented have been proven effective for diverse populations and also benefit the online learning community and student outcomes in a positive way.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Four Common Teaching Traps and How to Avoid Them
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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 spot, content overload, and over-identification.
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- Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- What are Microaggressions and What Can I Do About Them?
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This 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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- Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Collaborative Learning Approaches that Support Neurodiverse Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Teaching About Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in Secular Studies Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Building Professionalism in Professional-track Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- In this 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Understanding and Educating Generation Z Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- You'll explore the beliefs and perspectives of the Generation Z population and how these beliefs and perspectives affect them as college students. Specifically, this seminar addresses how Generation Z students differ from other generations.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Planning by the Calendar
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Careful course planning minimizes stress and improves learning by reducing the chances of content crush and panic often experienced at the end of the term. 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Build International Student Success with Intercultural Awareness
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Examine the three primary worldviews and cultural dimensions and increase your intercultural savvy. This increased awareness will help you teach in ways that better include and support culturally diverse students to improve your teaching effectiveness and further your students' success.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Talking about Student Evaluation Results: What to Say and How to Say It
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Technology in the Classroom
- Student Technology Skills: Expectations vs. Reality
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Recent studies show that Digital Natives might not have the proficiency for technology that older generations have long assumed they do, and that we're overestimating the technical skills of the young adults we teach. To make things worse, the related skill sets that students are being taught in their courses with us are not the kinds of skills that their future employers most value.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Online Engagement and Assimilation Strategies For Nontraditional and Marginalized Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 7 Things to Consider Before Developing an Online Course
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn how to allow for adequate time to develop a course, explore avenues to find course content, prioritize the content students need to learn, create an instructor participation plan, determine what course assessments will be used, estimate the overall workload associated with developing and teaching an online course, and use existing faculty support services available to help with course design and planning.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Using peer assessment, self-assessment, creative coursework design, grading rubrics, and technology, educators can offer meaningful feedback and effective grading approaches in large-section classes. Join us to discover ideas that you will be able to incorporate almost immediately from an educator who has successfully used this approach.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Generation Z (born from 1995-2010) is now in college and they've brought a unique set of values and interests with them. If you're challenged by—or even just curious about—understanding the drive and motivation of the young students in your classes, this online seminar will provide research-based context, understanding, and practical tactics that can be implemented in any classroom.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Reaching Neurodiverse Students: Course Creation Strategies
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies for Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration in Large Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore essential topics including strategies for building a cohesive online learning community, increasing faculty online presence, and getting students actively engaged in learning. This presentation will also address technology for online communication, collaboration, and engagement.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Energize Your Lectures to Help Students Meaningfully Engage with Your Subject
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Gain insight into your possible teaching blind spots, learn the power of using concrete examples to help students grasp abstract concepts, explore the wide variety of example types that can be used in teaching, and learn the most effective pacing of examples in a course.
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- Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Foster Creative and Critical Thinking Through Intrinsic Motivation
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Grit, self-efficacy, and growth mindset are desirable and aspirational traits for students to have and will make the difference between learning at low-level Bloom's Taxonomy vs. truly engaging in and understanding course content, but how does a professor create the motivation it takes for students to achieve this? This online seminar is for any educator struggling with creating such paths to critical and creative thinking.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Time Management for Faculty and Students in Flipped Learning Environments
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Announcing a Magna Online Seminar that will help you with time management before your course starts and as you teach. We'll also give advice to help students work smarter (not harder) when they shift learning new material to the pre-class space. Lastly, we'll cover 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
- What happens during the first week of class sets the tone for the entire term and can affect retention and student success. For students to work well together in classes, a degree of trust must exist between them, and building this trust quickly is key. Learn about the concept of swift trust, which comes from business but applies to education as well.
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- Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Facilitating Success: A Guide to Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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-informed 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
- $297.00 – $497.00
- For faculty who struggle with engaging content delivery, How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate, is a Magna Online Seminar that gives specific, practical steps to add enthusiasm and excitement to lectures and presentations.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- 7 Indispensable Strategies to Build Community in Your Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Students in online courses and degree programs sometimes report that studying online can leave them feeling isolated and unconnected to their instructor and student peers. However, this doesn't have to be the case. Online instructors can utilize a variety of strategies to build and maintain a sense of community in their online courses and doing so will result in a better course experience for both student and instructor.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learning outcomes and objectives are the first step in backwards design. As such they hold the primary spot in the course development process. Faculty engaged in course or program development who are ill-equipped to design meaningful and measurable outcomes face the prospect of a poorly designed course and less than meaningful learning experiences for students.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Preparing Students for Thoughtful, Ethical Decision Making
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This 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). We will also discuss ethical considerations for instructors—particularly those new to the profession—around dilemmas they often encounter, including grading, recommendation letters, and boundaries in interactions with students.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- Online Learning That Sticks: Strategies to Shift to Student-Centered Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
- You have the basics of teaching well in hand. Your students are successful. You feel comfortable with your content knowledge and teaching methods. So why would you change anything? 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Naturally, adults and children learn in different ways. However, this truism does not necessarily translate when learners transition from secondary to post-secondary educational settings. It's even more elusive in online learning environments, as students are not immediately visible to their instructors.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Course Design Strategies to Increase Student Completion Rates
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Online enrollments are on the rise, even as overall enrollments decline. As an increasingly diverse student body flocks online to meet their educational goals, online completion rates are not yet on par with traditional classrooms and are more problematic for students outside of the once-traditional student demographic.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
- In recent years, lectures as a pedagogical approach have come under considerable fire. Critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, are often leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. Still, there is another type of lecture that has tried and true benefits: the interactive lecture.
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- COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Online courses present unique challenges for both students and faculty. Small teaching can be the answer to those problems. Small online teaching strategies are minor adjustments to class design and teaching, things that are feasible in terms of the minimum amount of time required and that create little to no grading burden.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- In this 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Metacognition has been strongly linked with improved GPAs, college readiness, and retention; however, faculty are often unaware of how to purposefully instill and foster these abilities in students. This seminar will provide specific strategies to build these necessary competencies.
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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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Hidden Disabilities: Navigating the Need for Disability Support on Campus
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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 Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Help Students Build Resiliency & Overcome Their Obstacles
- $99.00
- Every year, residential life staff and student affairs counselors see an increasing number of students enter college with some type of psychological problem or mental illness. They are presented with reams of data and survey results highlighting the increased risk and problems this generation of students has to face when going to school.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- The Top 10 Faculty Challenges for Teaching Online
- $297.00 – $497.00
- We provide a balanced, well-informed look at the top 10 challenges faculty face in the online classroom and what you can do to help.
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