Category: Faculty

- Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- An Online Educator’s Guide to Using Zoom Features to Enhance Student Interactivity
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Planning and Designing Your College Course
- $34.00
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- 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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Engagement
- Overcoming STEM Challenges When Designing Curriculum and Online Delivery
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Teaching Strategies
- Evaluating Online Teaching
- $199.00
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- Giving your online faculty meaningful evaluations serves your institution, students, and your faculty. This course will help you develop a successful and workable framework for conducting online teaching evaluations.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Teaching Strategies
- Preparing to Teach Online
- $199.00
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- It's essential to have some grounding in online classroom best practices before you take the plunge. Preparing to Teach Online is a course that will put you on a path to success.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Managing Your Online Classroom
- $199.00
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- Managing Your Online Classroom can help you make the online experience even more impactful for your students, while making it even more rewarding for you. This intensive, idea-filled course takes a systematic look at the key elements of online teaching, while providing actionable insights you can use to build on your current online classroom.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Classroom Basics for New Teachers
- $199.00
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- If you are new to teaching and passionate about your subject area but have little or no experience in front of the classroom, Classroom Basics for New Teachers will be a great start to your teaching career.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $199.00
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- 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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- On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
- $39.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses
- Taking Your Teaching Online Program Collection
- $49.00
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- Magna Publications realizes that sudden change can be stressful and confusing. We’re offering this resource collection to help teachers learn from other teachers about what works in the online environment.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
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- 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, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Teaching Non-Traditional Students: An Asset-Based Approach
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Using Brief Interventions to Maximize Student Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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
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- 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 Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Designing Online Learning to Spark Intrinsic Motivation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Outcomes-Based Assessment of Teaching & Learning Centers
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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
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- 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 Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Helping Students Succeed in a Large Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Student Engagement
- Thriving as an Online Learning Administrator: 12 Strategies
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Meeting the challenges and capitalizing on the opportunities of online education requires a strategic approach. This seminar helps you improve the quality of your programming and promote the growth of online education at your institution.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Course Design Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Everybody Present: Mindfulness in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Below the Surface: Strategies for Deep and Lasting Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Prepared Students: The Secret’s in the Assignment Strategy
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices in Flipped Class Design
- $297.00
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- 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 Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Discussion: Practices to Boost Learning & Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate & Improve Your Teaching
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 Course Delivery and Instruction
- Five Tips to Engage Students Outside of the Online Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Choosing and Using Group Activities in the College Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Dealing with Student Behaviors That Compromise Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teacher Persona
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Refresh Your Course with Straightforward Design Changes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Evidence-Based Teaching in Higher Education: Strategies to Improve Student Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Faculty Support, Leadership, 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
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Managing Hot Moments and Difficult Discussions in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How to Design and Facilitate Online Discussions that Improve Student Learning and Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, 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
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- 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 Strategies
- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- Advanced Online Seminar: Transgender Students and Creating a Safe, Inclusive, and Legally Compliant Environment
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- You'll learn about the legal rights of transgender students and what your college or university must do to be in compliance. You'll learn what policies and procedures should be reviewed and, if necessary, revised to include specific protection for transgender students.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Building Strategies for Competency-Based Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy
- How to Observe and Evaluate Online Teaching
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This program gives guidance for assessing the underlying foundation of your schools online course offerings. You will learn about the significant interactions for evaluating design and teaching in online courses.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Online Learning through Instructional Design
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Online Course Design and Preparation, Teaching Strategies
- Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Accommodating Faculty Mental Health Conditions under the ADA
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar is an opportunity for administrators to receive practical advice on the ADA from an attorney with expertise in higher education compliance. Gain a clear and engaging overview of how to compassionately manage mental health issues without running afoul of the ADA.
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- Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Motivate, Engage, and Inspire: Tips for Teaching Modern Learners
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Listen to the Data: Create a Data-Informed Culture
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This presentation will examine the terminology and its impact on the institution, describe the challenges and benefits of its implementation, illustrate the resources/skill-sets needed, and offer real-world examples of analyses that help to predict future student demand by identifying the data elements necessary for success.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain a variety of strategies to create discussion board activities that your students find interesting and also strategies to effectively facilitate discussions and manage the workload related to reading and grading posts.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Create Influence Beyond Campus: Video Basics for Faculty
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Building a Tougher Student: Applying the Research on Intellectual Development
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $147.00 – $347.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching to the Core: Ensuring the Success of Professional-Track Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Specific Student Populations
- Three Secrets to Building Diverse and Inclusive Online Learning Environments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Four Common Teaching Traps and How to Avoid Them
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- What are Microaggressions and What Can I Do About Them?
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Collaborative Learning Approaches that Support Neurodiverse Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore practical strategies to plan group tasks so that our neurodiverse learners can successfully contribute to collaborative learning activities.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching About Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in Secular Studies Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Building Professionalism in Professional-track Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Understanding and Educating Generation Z Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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
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- 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, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Build International Student Success with Intercultural Awareness
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Talking about Student Evaluation Results: What to Say and How to Say It
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Department Chairs: Trends and Issues Over Time
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore data about a study Cipriano performed about the roles and responsibilities of the department chair over a 12-year timeframe. Trends will be analyzed over time and issues will be explored regarding the future of the roles and responsibilities of the chair.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Campus Safety, Faculty, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- From Cross Examination to Safe Harbors: A New Day in Title IX Compliance
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar explores updates to Title IX under the Trump administration and keeps participants informed about what they need to know as Title IX continues to take shape.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Student Technology Skills: Expectations vs. Reality
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement
- Online Engagement and Assimilation Strategies For Nontraditional and Marginalized Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- 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
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- 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, Teaching Strategies
- Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Strategies for Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration in Large Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Energize Your Lectures to Help Students Meaningfully Engage with Your Subject
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Foster Creative and Critical Thinking Through Intrinsic Motivation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Time Management for Faculty and Students in Flipped Learning Environments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Announcing an all-new 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Moving Beyond Data Collection to Meaningful Quality Assurance and Curriculum Improvement: The Future of Curriculum Mapping
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Curriculum mapping (tracking the achievement of program outcomes to the course) is often required at institutions for quality assurance and curriculum improvement. It is a concept that was fairly new in 2010 (Wolfs first MOS) and is now widely accepted. However, many institutions are stuck at data collection and haven't been able to aggregate the data from a course level up to a program level, and even better, include data from other divisions of the institution.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Facilitating Success: A Guide to Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 7 Indispensable Strategies to Build Community in Your Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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
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- 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 Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Preparing Students for Thoughtful, Ethical Decision Making
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 Course Design and Preparation
- Online Learning That Sticks: Strategies to Shift to Student-Centered Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Naturally, adults and children learn in different ways. However, this truism does not necessarily translate when learners transition from secondary to postsecondary 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy
- Online Program Design Strategies to Increase Program Graduation Rates
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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 face-to-face classrooms and are more problematic for students outside of the historically traditional student demographic.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Course Design Strategies to Increase Student Completion Rates
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 8 Small Teaching Strategies that Deliver Big Results to Engage Online Students and Improve Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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
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- 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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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Practical Ways to Support First-Generation College Students in the College Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Underprepared Students to Take Control of Their Learning by Developing Metacognitive Skills
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Understanding Open Educational Resources (OER): A Powerful Solution for Both Faculty and Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- Hidden Disabilities: Navigating the Need for Disability Support on Campus
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Using Humor to Engage Students in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- 10 Skills to Increase Your Community’s Diversity Competence
- $99.00
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- When it comes to diversity, even the most well-intentioned people can make the biggest mistakes. In this seminar, highly-acclaimed diversity trainer and author Maura Cullen, PhD, introduces you to the 10 core concepts that will ultimately increase diversity skills and competency.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- Reframing Resistance to Achieve Cultural Change
- $99.00
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- Resistance doesnt have to derail your work. You can learn to reframe the resistance you encounter and use it to fuel your efforts. By shifting your perspective and embracing resistance as part of the change process, it can become a tool instead of an obstacle to your goals. Learn how to harness the power of resistance from two national change-management experts with this seminar.
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- On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Support
- How to Help Students Build Resiliency & Overcome Their Obstacles
- $99.00
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- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Supporting Online Faculty
- The Top 10 Faculty Challenges for Teaching Online
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Blended Learning Toolkit: Design, Deliver, Assess
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Determine the opportunities for online learning in your classes and outline a methodology for developing them.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Student Support
- From Rucksack to Backpack: Ensuring Student Veteran Success
- $99.00
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- The transition from deployment to college life can pose a significant challenge for student veterans. While service members have many assets-maturity, leadership experience, and sound commitment—they also often carry visible and invisible disabilities, such as post traumatic stress disorder. Learn how to ease the transition and leverage the strengths of veterans in your classroom in this seminar.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- 10 Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- If you want to create a first-class learning environment start with the first class. From the very first day—from the moment students walk in the door—you set the tone for the entire semester. You can establish expectations, clarify responsibilities, energize, and engage your students, and create a strong framework for success. We provide you with practical, proven tips for starting your classes off right.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Service-Learning Course Design: What Faculty Need to Know
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Faculty members who enrich their teaching with service-learning explore the connections between their disciplines and the critical questions facing local and global society. Creating an effective and meaningful service-learning course requires careful planning and logistical know-how. You get an insightful explanation of the workings of a successful service-learning course.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Classroom Management 102: Working with Difficult Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Do the faculty members at your school know how to respond effectively when confronted by uncooperative or even aggressive students? Find out how to successfully manage the full-range of student behavior problems. We use role play scenarios of problematic classroom behaviors to share strategies for responding effectively.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- What to Teach When There Isn’t Time to Teach Everything
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Get advice on what to include, and what you can safely disregard, as you write your syllabi and plan your busy semesters.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Connect Learning Across Courses with Curriculum Mapping
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- More and more schools are turning to curriculum mapping. Curriculum maps can enhance your programming and engage your faculty while standing up to increased oversight of by accrediting agencies, funders, students, and employers. We help you get started with curriculum maps and help you improve the overall educational program at your school.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- 9 Ways to Use Class Discussion to Promote Transformation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Students can't overcome bad habits they don't know they have. We'll show you how to establish a climate of trust in which students can learn to recognize blind spots, gaps, and contradictions in the way they think. We also share techniques to enhance classroom discussion and make it a vehicle for active learning and intellectual development.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Five Strategies to Engage Today’s Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Whether they're called Generation Y, Millennial learners or NextGen learners, today's students bring unique perceptions and preferences to campuses and classrooms across the country. Learn research-based insights on the key traits of today's students to help you create more effective teaching and learning experiences through enhanced student engagement.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Managing Student Discipline Issues Legally and Effectively
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Whether you're concerned about cheating or legal rights and responsibilities, a proactive approach helps stop problems before they start. We show you how preparation makes the difference in classroom management.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Tools and Techniques for Improving Course Accessibility
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Active Learning That Works: What Students Think
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- From the teacher's point of view, active learning should be a powerful instructional tool, but what do the students really think about it? Are they actually learning what you intend when you use these teaching strategies in the college classroom? This unique seminar will gives you the student perspective.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Handling Annoying, Disruptive and Dangerous Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Annoying, disruptive, and dangerous students pose problems to even the best classroom managers. Yet you don't have to merely tolerate problem students. There are things you can do to manage student behavior and improve the learning environment in your classroom no matter who is on the roster.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- A Good Start: Helping First-year Students Acclimate to College
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Many first-year students arrive at college unprepared. It's not that they aren't smart or motivated. Instead, they experience a gap between the academic culture in high school and the culture of the university. These students arrive on campus thinking they are ready when no one has told them the rules have changed. This online seminar gives you the tools and techniques to help new students thrive during their first semester and throughout the rest of their college career.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Lecture Alternatives: Four Strategies to Engage Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- If you're growing tired of lecturing, imagine how your students feel. Your students would probably welcome a change of pace as much as you would. The challenge, of course, is making a change for the better. Learn what other educators are doing to add variety and incorporate active-learning strategies into their courses in this Magna Online Seminar.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Approach to a Learner-Centered Class
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn the skills needed to become more learner-centered and flip your classroom.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Motivating Students: From Apathetic to Inspired
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn ways to tweak your course design and instructional methodology to better engage students and foster accountability. You will explore evidence-based strategies that will help you create a learning environment that increases student motivation, interest, and success. You will finish with the information and tools that you need to connect with—and maybe even inspire—modern learners.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Universal Design: Five Steps to Make Your Course Accessible
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- Assessment Strategies for the Flipped Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- How the Brain Learns: Implications for Teaching and Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Recent neuroscience findings shed new light on the external and internal factors that affect acquiring, processing, and learning new knowledge. Two leaders in the field of metacognition (knowing about knowing) will review what science now tells us about the learning process and share concrete classroom strategies and methods that are informed by that science.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- 10 Strategies for Enhancing Learning in Introductory Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Introductory courses form the foundation of a college education, but students don't like taking them, faculty don't like teaching them, and student achievement and attendance are notoriously low. In this seminar, you'll learn about practical tools you can use to transform these courses from an educational chore to a pathway to student success.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies that Work
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- More students are arriving on campus without the tools they need to succeed in college. Learn strategies to help get unprepared students better aligned with the demands of college and embrace accountability and personal responsibility.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do About It
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Helping Introverts Thrive in an Active Learning Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn a developmental approach to active learning that will help you create a comfortable environment for introverts and extroverts alike.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Six Practical Strategies to Improve Your Online Course
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- A half-dozen research-based, easy-to-implement practices to keep your students more engaged, more successful in their learning, and more satisfied with their online classroom experience.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- The Flipped Approach to Online Teaching and Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Leverage Social Media to Fuel Student Engagement & Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn techniques to use social media strategically and intelligently in your classroom. Incorporating social media into your courses can forge stronger connections with your students, foster mastery of course content, and develop social media skills that will help graduates transition into the workplace.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Team-Based Learning: Strategies for Getting Started
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Team-Based Learning, or TBL, helps students develop a deep and enduring understanding of course content. Using these methods, you'll be able to move beyond covering content to helping students use course concepts to solve interesting, significant problems.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Group Work: Making It Meaningful and Manageable
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- With the increasing popularity of online courses, instructors need to have clear, effective methods of creating, implementing, and grading group projects. Change the perception and the results with this seminar.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Data Driven Decision Making for Online Instructional Design
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Despite all its promise, online education faces serious obstacles. High drop-out rates and an increasingly skeptical Congress have caused many to question the effectiveness of online education—a disturbing trend in times of tight budgets. This seminar introduces you to the latest methods for leveraging analytics in the instructional design process and ultimately improve your courses.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Five Ways to Improve Interaction in Your Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- There are ways to effectively adapt your teaching content to the various communication channels available. No matter where you are at on the online teaching spectrum this seminar will supply you with the tools you need to take the next steps toward mastery and effectiveness. This seminar shows you specifically how to add your personality, and engage and interact with students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- A Guide to Video Communication for Online Instructors
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- If you're an online educator, creating online video content is no longer an option. It's a virtual requirement in today's online environment, where students expect your curriculum to keep pace with new technologies. Unfortunately, even if faculty would love to make their students happy, most educators don't understand how to create online video, and budget shortfalls are limiting training opportunities. Learn all about video creation from inception to viewing and discover simple ways to effectively create and deliver online video content.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices for Designing Successful Blended Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Building effective learning experiences for increasingly diverse learners while facing financial constraints is one of the most important challenges higher education faces today. Blended instruction can help, but it takes work to fuse the worlds of face-to-face and online instruction. Veronica Diaz, associate director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, shows you how to make the best of both worlds.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Engage Online Students with Targeted Feedback
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn the tools and strategies that will help you establish and maintain a respectful and fruitful feedback loop with your students. Discover how to add effective and constructive two-way communication channels to your online courses from dynamic, online communicator Jill Schiefelbein.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- Efficient and Effective Feedback in the Online Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Effective feedback is a critical component of the learning process for online students. It serves an important role in keeping them motivated and engaged. Learn a set of strategies for reducing feedbacks burden while maintaining the high quality that contributes so much to students growth and learning.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Adjunct Faculty
- $34.00
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- This book is focused on the foundational elements of effective pedagogy and advises faculty, on proven strategies and best practices to take them successfully from the first day of class to the final exam.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Flipping the College Classroom: Practical Advice from Faculty
- $34.00
  Rated 0 out of 5
- Flipped instruction is a popular method that exposes students to course content, such as readings and online lectures, outside of the classroom and then uses class time to analyze, synthesize, and apply that information. Those in-class activities are critical.
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- Books, Faculty, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Grading Strategies for the Online College Classroom: A Collection of Articles for Faculty
- $34.00
  Rated 0 out of 5
- Give your online faculty a resource to help them accurately reflect their students' performance and tools to help manage their workload. Bulk orders allow you to purchase multiple copies for your institution at a discounted rate.
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- Books, Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Essential Teaching Principles: A Resource Collection for Teachers
- $34.00
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- This book serves as a quick and ready reference as you encounter the challenges of teaching college-level material in the high school classroom. For an AP or IB teacher, there's no better resource.
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- Books, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty
- $34.00
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- Learn how to apply active learning methods in both small and large classes, as well as in an online teaching environment. Whether you are new to active learning methods or experienced with them, this comprehensive reference book can guide you every step of the way.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Campus Safety, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Specific Student Populations, Strategic Planning, Student Engagement, Student Support, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Magna Online Seminar Pass
- $1,697.00
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- The Magna Online Seminar Pass provides access to seminars that present the latest and greatest in academia and promote skill development for both staff and faculty. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Books, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- The College Teacher’s Handbook: A Resource Collection for New Faculty
- $34.00
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- The College Teachers Handbook: A Resource Collection for New Faculty provides the essential tools and information that any new teacher in higher education needs to confidently lead a college classroom.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Online Courses, Teaching Strategies
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses
- $299.00
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- The Magna Online Course Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses gives teachers the tools to light a path for their students. Led by Linda B. Nilson, PhD, the founding director of Clemson University's Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, it presents research-based, classroom-tested best practices that can be immediately applied in the classroom.
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- Faculty, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses
- Preparing to Teach Online
- $299.00
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- This course will provide you with a roadmap for successful entry into the online space. It will empower you to teach confidently and competently from your first day of class, and help you drive the kind of learning outcomes you want for your students.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Online Courses, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Principles of Effective College Teaching
- $299.00
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- This intensive Magna Online Course provides in-depth instruction on the myriad responsibilities of a college teacher. You'll find it an indispensable resource as you prepare to teach.
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- Faculty, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses
- Managing Your Online Classroom
- $299.00
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- This intensive, idea-filled online program takes a systematic look at the key elements of online teaching, providing insights you can use to build on your current success.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Online Courses, Teaching Strategies
- Enrichment for Mid-Career Faculty
- $299.00
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- For those who are passionate about teaching, the answer is clear: Get even better. Become even more impactful. Find even more new ways to inspire, enlighten, and transform students. If you're thirsting for new ideas to take your teaching performance to new heights, you'll plenty in the Magna Online Course, Enrichment for Mid-Career Faculty.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Online Courses, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Classroom Basics for New Teachers
- $299.00
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- Classroom Basics for New Teachers is an essential resource for anyone new (or almost new) to the classroom. It delivers research-based, classroom-tested best practices on the myriad responsibilities and challenges of teaching.
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- Faculty, Online Courses, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Take Note: Strategies to Develop Student Note-Taking Skills
- $299.00
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- Presented by Maryellen Weimer, PhD, longtime editor of The Teaching Professor, this Magna Online Course takes a deep dive into the strategies you can use to make students better note-takers. Complete it, 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, Faculty, Online Courses, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Specific Student Populations
- $299.00
  Rated 0 out of 5
- Aside from a universal aversion to early morning classes, students can hardly be considered a homogeneous group. They're diverse in so many respects—culturally, generationally, in their backgrounds, in their abilities, in their identity. Those differences often bring with them different learning styles and needs. Meeting these students where they're most comfortable, and where they learn best, is something every educator can strive to do.
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- Faculty, Online Courses, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Underprepared Students
- $299.00
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- Teaching Underprepared Students can show you how. In this five-part Magna Online Course, Brigham Young professors Tyler Griffin and Ken Alford provide a wealth of proven strategies for eliminating bad habits, instilling an appreciation for rigor, and boosting student performance.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Books, Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators
- $34.00
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- Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators is a must-have guide for faculty. While the roles in the college classroom often are defined by teachers teaching and students learning, the reality is that not many students have a clear understanding of how to learn.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Conference, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Online Course Design and Preparation, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- 2020 Teaching Professor Conference
- $0.00
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- Founded in 2003, The Teaching Professor Conference provides a thought-provoking and stimulating forum for educators of all disciplines and experience levels to share best practices that advance college teaching and learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Courses
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $299.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Subscription, Teaching Strategies
- The Teaching Professor
- $149.00
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- The Teaching Professor is the lively, highly informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. A source of cutting-edge information and inspiration for more than 10,000 educators at universities and colleges worldwide.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Magna Commons
- $2,797.00
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- Magna Commons is a subscription-based, on-demand, online, and campus-wide digital library of all of Magna Online Seminars. Suitable for faculty and administrators. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- 20-Minute Mentor Commons
- $2,797.00
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- An on-demand digital library of targeted faculty development that offer solutions to common classroom challenges-in just 20 minutes! A subscription gives your entire campus access to all 20-Minute Mentor programs. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Group Excellence, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Leadership, Team Skills
- Aggression Identification and Management
- $49.00
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- It's an unfortunate fact of campus life that aggression and violence do occur... sometimes with devastating results. In this important seminar, you'll learn how to identify and manage aggressive persons and behavior.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- What Do Students Expect from Online Courses?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Asking the right questions can be just as important as getting the right answers. This is particularly important when it comes to designing for the online student. Learn how you can create a better online course experience. This pointed and practical session will show you how to meet online students desires without sacrificing your standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Use Technology to Create Custom Automated Feedback?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- High-quality, individualized feedback is essential for effective online teaching. Learn how to use feedback banks, feedback technology, and automated feedback to improve your online comments to students. In the process, you'll also improve your students' experience with online teaching, increasing their learning, motivation, and satisfaction.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Faculty need efficient instruction practices when teaching online. Learn proven time management practices for your online courses. As a result, you will do a better job of providing feedback and achieving instructional priorities without spending all of your time in front of the computer.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Enhance the Impact of Feedback in Online Classes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Feedback is a key element in the learning process. Discover multiple feedback strategies that can grab students' attention, help them learn from their mistakes, and upgrade your online feedback, making it more specific, timely, and effective.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Monday Morning Mentor, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Monday Morning Mentor
- $799.00
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- Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week - 16 in the fall and 16 in the spring.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make My Exams More about Learning, Less about Grades?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Learn how you can transform exams into enhanced opportunities for student learning with practical solutions to the three core problems with exams today. Making exams better suit your learning goals requires student participation at every step of the process. Your presenter, Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., shares real-world, tested guidelines for integrating student input.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- You know how essential it is for students to be active participants in their education. But how do you grade them on it? In this program, you'll learn an overview of what not to do when grading participation, activities worth doing, how to do them, and how to evaluate your own process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement
- Is Your Syllabus Sending the Wrong Message?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Your syllabus and classroom policies set the tone for your class, but they may not be creating a welcoming learning environment. Learn tips designed to help you use classroom policies to support student engagement and a smooth-running classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Student Support
- How Can I Help Student Veterans Transition to Campus?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Adapting to life on campus can be difficult for student veterans. Learn practical tips on how you can support student veterans in their return to civilian life. These techniques include incorporating service-learning and team activities to draw on student veterans strengths and reduce their social isolation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Accommodate Student Veterans with Disabilities?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Veterans returning to higher education face cognitive and physical challenges. Discover effective responses to the learning needs of today's disabled student veterans and understand the impact of acquired disabilities on learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Strategic Planning
- What Learning Activities Help Student Veterans Succeed?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Learn practical techniques you can implement immediately to help student veterans succeed. Techniques include understanding the differences between military and academic decision making, as well as how to teach student veterans how to reflect and write for an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Do I Design Courses to Enhance Student Veterans’ Success?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Military service is a formidable educational experience. Learn how to use course design to help student veterans make the most of it. In the process, you'll also learn how to enhance learning for all students. This program covers situational factors, assessment, and learning activities.
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- Should I Encourage Experiential Learning During Class? How?
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- Lectures are not effective for all students. Help all your students make the most of their education by adding experiential learning to your instructional toolkit. Find out how you can bring this high-impact educational practice into your classroom and increase student engagement in learning with this 20 Minute Mentor.
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- How Do I Develop a High-Impact Capstone Course?
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- Capstone courses help students synthesize their college education before they embark on professional careers or graduate studies. This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to construct a capstone course for specific learning outcomes.
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- How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
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- Teaching critical reflection skills in STEM courses helps develop professionals who can think, analyze, reason, solve problems creatively, and communicate. While some may be hesitant about teaching these skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses, thats where students and society can reap multiple benefits from critical reflection. Learn how to incorporate these skills in your STEM courses.
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- How Can I Improve Lessons with a 4-step Plan?
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- Lesson planning is a complex process that can take hours and hours of your time. You need to answer the question, What are my students going to learn today? Mary Clement, EdD, has mastered the lesson planning process and developed a four-step plan that simplifies how you plan and creates even stronger, more engaging lessons.
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- How Do I Include Introverts in Class Discussions?
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- Introverted students can find themselves at a disadvantage in the contemporary college classroom. Learn effective teaching strategies to engage introverted students in class discussions and how to guide them beyond their comfort zones.
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- What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
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- Developing a clear understanding of where you want your course to go and what your students will learn is essential for faculty. By articulating your pedagogical goals, you will clarify your practices and take both your teaching and your students to the next level.
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- How Can I Make My Multiple Choice Tests More Effective?
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- Learn how to make your multiple choice tests more effective by creating a test blueprint and formulating test questions that go beyond memorization to evaluate thinking skills. Testing is more than a responsibility for faculty members. It's an opportunity to assess the progress you and your students have made toward your learning objectives. Multiple choice tests aren't about playing the odds—instead, they can help you make the most of your chances to connect with students.
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- How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?
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- Rubrics help you develop a better grading system, one that delivers fair results, helps students learn, and makes effective use of your time. In this program, you will get examples of the three basic formats for rubrics and explore seven key recommendations developed to help you transform the grading process.
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- How Can I Create Meaningful Assignments for My Students?
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- Assignments are where students get to practice, engage with course content, demonstrate their growing mastery, and alert you to problems. Learn 16 research-based strategies proven to support student learning and how to apply several of these techniques when designing your course assignments.
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- How Can I Make My Exams More Accessible?
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- Considering accessibility when designing exams provides you with a more accurate assessment of student learning and bring your assignments into closer alignment with learning objectives. Exams created with accessibility in mind can help you improve your assessment of student learning for all students, whether or not they have a disability.
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- How Can Backward Design Make My Courses More Accessible?
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- Backward design is an effective tool in supporting accessibility. Focusing on what you want students to get out of your course, through backward design, will help you develop creative and accessible assignments that help all students, whether or not they have a disability. Why struggle to remove barriers to learning when you can get things right the first time with backward design?
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- How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?
- $99.00 – $199.00
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- Students dealing with physical, cognitive, and other barriers to learning might not be able to participate fully in some activities because of their challenges. This fast and focused session will show you a practical approach to making accommodations and promoting equitable opportunity for learning and engagement for all your students.
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- How Can I Make My Course Content More Accessible?
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- Learn the drawbacks inherent in the most common ways of presenting course content and specific techniques for making material more accessible. After watching, you will be able to enhance student learning, help students better prepare for class, and promote student success with assignments and assessments.
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- How Can I Improve My PowerPoint Presentation Skills?
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- Poorly designed PowerPoint presentations distract and detract from your teaching. The proven presentation techniques you'll learn in this program will help you improve your classroom teaching and enhance student learning.
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- How Can I Effectively Teach Unprepared Students?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Learn principles and practices you can implement immediately to provide learning opportunities for unprepared students and motivate them to become engaged learners. This program takes a broad-spectrum approach, addressing motivation, responsibility, and communication practices and provides tested techniques to address these key issues.
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- How Do I Build Community in My Classroom?
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- Community is an essential ingredient in the educational experience. Studies show that community building can increase retention, improve students cognitive intellectual development, and promote contributions to society. Find out why it's important for you to know how to create community.
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- How Do I Set Students up for Success in Online Courses?
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- Beginnings matter, whether you're teaching students face-to-face or online. Find out how you can make the most of online course introductions. In this fast and focused session, you'll discover how you can transform course introductions from ho-hum exercises in housekeeping into time-saving, inspirational new beginnings.
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- How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
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- Focused, energizing classroom discussions that involve everyone are what higher education instructors dream of. Too bad they don't just happen. But you can learn the careful planning and structuring it takes to make them happen. We show you how to structure and plan classroom discussions to maximize student engagement, student participation, and learning.
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- How Can I Use Frequent Student Feedback to Improve My Courses?
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- If you are only asking for feedback at the end of the semester, there's not much you can do to improve the learning for your current students. That is why it's important to get student feedback early in the semester—and multiple times throughout—to understand your students and meet their learning needs. We share the five times in the semester when getting student feedback is valuable and provides practical ways to obtain that information.
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- How Can I Incorporate a Group Poster Session into my Class?
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- Learn how to successfully implement group poster sessions into your classroom. Get the tools and information you need to incorporate this impactful learning tool into your classroom.
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- How Can I Enhance Class Using Story, Popular Media and Objects?
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- Committed educators are always looking for dynamic ways to grab and hold their students attention, but we do more than list in-class activities. This practical and focused session is grounded in learning theory, such as idea-based, brain-based and situated learning, to give you a framework for ongoing exploration and innovation.
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- How Can I Use Icebreakers to Connect with Students?
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- You know teaching and learning are more effective when students are motivated. One of the keys to motivating students is finding out what makes them tick, and the sooner you can do that, the better. Learn how you can use class openings to forge connections with college students through introductory surveys, icebreakers, and more.
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- How Can I Connect Students’ Interests to Course Content?
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- When students see a clear link between their concerns and your course content, teaching and learning improve. The trick is establishing those connections. Alice Cassidy, PhD, shows you how to get students to make a personal investment in their learning—no matter how large or small your class may be.
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- How Can I Capture Students’ Interest in the First 5 Minutes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- We show you how to make the most of that first meeting with your students. Teaching and learning depend on building and sustaining student interest and strong course openings get it all started. You learn to draft your own enthusiasm statement to use in your own courses to draw students into the subject matter.
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- How Do I Stay Calm When Students Push My Buttons?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- College students behavior can be rude, arrogant, and insulting at times. This timely and targeted session will help you develop reasonable responses to students with unreasonable behavior. You will be able to keep your cool and handle any situation with a level head.
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- How Do I Address Teasing and Bullying Behavior in the Classroom?
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- Bullying and teasing takes many forms, but none of them are acceptable in higher education classrooms. Brian Van Brunt, EdD, an experienced educator and counselor, shares a resolutely practical approach, developed to help you confront the issue of bullying or teasing in your classroom.
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- What Do I Need to Know About Referring Students for Help?
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- Sooner or later, whether it's a student falling dangerously behind, exhibiting disturbing behavior, or something completely different, you're bound to encounter students who need more than you can give them. Recent campus tragedies highlight the crucial importance of skilled referrals. Learn how in this program.
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- What are the Communication ‘Musts’ in an Online Class?
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- Establishing effective communication in online classes can be challenging. We show you how to use technology to create an effective online learning environment. You will learn five essential steps to enhance your online communication.
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- How Can I Get Started With the Virtual Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Teaching online requires shifts in your approach. We give you the instructional and logistical perspectives to succeed in the virtual classroom. Starting with a clarification of terms, you'll see how the synchronous environment of the online classroom lends itself to using other media to draw students in.
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- How Do I Choose Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Activities?
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- Learn how to define, describe, and decide between synchronous activities and asynchronous online activities. Emphasizing learning objectives over technology, we walk you through a decision-making process based on what you want students to learn and helps you find the most effective way for them to process it.
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- How Do I Convert a F2F Course to a Hybrid Course?
- $99.00 – $199.00
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- We cover the process of online course conversion, from initial course review to working with technology. Learn a step-by-step approach to maximizing the educational benefits of blended learning—in a minimal amount of time make the most of what you're already doing and learn to use technology to enhance student engagement and learning.
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- How Can Objects and Analogies Improve My Teaching?
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- Whether you teach physics or philosophy, you're probably looking for innovative ways to increase student engagement with your course material. Encouraging students to make new connections is essential in higher education, and we show you what students think about just that.
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- How Can I Use Informal Writing as Part of a Low-stakes Grading Strategy?
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- Informal writing assignments can be part of your strategy of frequent, low-stakes (FLS) grading. This approach incorporates many informal, low-pressure writing assignments that keep students engaged in the course materials and continually improving. Find out how informal writing assignments can create a dialogue between the students and instructor, boost student confidence, and increase student motivation.
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- How Can I Use Low-stakes Quizzing to Enhance Learning?
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- A frequent, low-stakes FLS grading strategy, when used correctly, can decrease your workload while increasing student motivation and confidence. As an added benefit, it helps ensure students arrive to class prepared and ready to learn. The idea behind FLS is simple: you give many grades with lower weights. Learn how this technique can benefit your classroom in this 20-Minute Mentor.
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- What Three Things Could I Do to Improve My Blended Course?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Effective blended course design requires faculty to reconsider their role in learning. It calls for rethinking your approach to students, teaching, technology, and your colleagues. Whether you are new to blended learning or a seasoned pro, this program will take your course to the next level by exploring three avenues you can focus on for improvement.
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- In Blended Courses, What Should Students Do Online?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- For instructors interested in exploring blended learning, deciding which course elements to teach face-to-face and which to address through online technology can be a major stumbling block. Learn a framework for making those essential educational judgment calls. Be confident that your selection of which materials to present online and which to present in the classroom will provide the best learning experience for your students.
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- How Should I Manage My Online Course?
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- Managing the workload of an online course can be more challenging than managing a face-to-face course. We walk you through an online instructor checklist created at Penn State University. When you have completed it, you will have created an instructors course manual that will help you stay organized, manage your workload, and keep your students working toward the learning goals.
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- What Is Blended Learning?
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- Blended learning, which combines face-to-face classroom instruction with supervised online activities, is one of the hottest topics in higher education today. Blended learning is here to stay. Learn how to take advantage of online technology to better your students learning experience and improve your instruction. Find out how you can fuse the best of traditional techniques and cutting-edge online technology.
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- I’m Teaching Online Next Term. What Do I Have to Know?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- If you're teaching your first online class next semester, and you're completely confident you know exactly what to do…then you're probably the first. If, on the other hand, you have more questions than answers, this program is tailor-made for you. We provide you with a 12-step framework for online teaching success.
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- What Should I Do When a Student Challenges My Authority?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Students can challenge your authority in all sorts of ways. Some are overt (is he actually snoring?!), and some are not (that gentle pitter-pat you hear is most likely not rain on the roof…it's texting). This content-rich program examines effective and appropriate responses when students cross the line.
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- How Can I Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Developing critical thinking skills is the real business of higher education—teaching students to analyze and dissect every idea, ruminate about it, and arrive at thoughtful, informed opinions. This fast, focused program will show you how to incorporate active learning components into every aspect of your courses, from lectures to labs, from writing assignments to tests.
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- What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Gain useful strategies that will help improve student retention and give every student a better chance at success. Learn some powerful tools and techniques for continuously improving student retention at your institution.
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- How Can I Transform My Tests into Learning Tools?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- Tests and other assessments are effective tools for determining how well students learned (and how well you taught) earlier in the semester. But they don't really do much to help students learn in the present, or as the semester progresses. This fast, focused program will provide you with an assortment of tools and techniques to promote better learning.
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- What Are the Three Worst Mistakes to Make in the Classroom?
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- This fast, focused presentation zeroes in on a trio of potential higher education teaching pitfalls—one involving how you teach, one what you teach, and one whom you teach. You'll come away with ideas you can use right away to avoid problems and create a positive, productive learning environment.
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- How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
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- Trying to teach students to improve their writing can be like trying to teach cats to fetch: Demonstrate all you want, encourage all you want, implore all you want—you're apt to be met with nothing but blinks. We share seven novel feedback techniques that will motivate your students and drive real improvement in their writing.
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- How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
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- We've all encountered toxic learning environments—apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. Keeping the classroom climate positive is the responsibility of both sides. Learn valuable concepts you can put to work right away in every class.
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- How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
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- All faculty members have students who cheat in their classrooms. Should our primary response to classroom cheating be prevention, punishment, or indifference? With 11 pages of supplemental material, we explain how a developmental approach can ensure that all your students stay on the track to ethical academic success.
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