MAGNA ONLINE SEMINARS
Category: Active and Engaged Students

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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
Teaching Underprepared Students to Take Control of Their Learning by Developing Metacognitive Skills
- $39.00 – $697.00
- For faculty faced with an increasing number of underprepared students, this Magna Online Seminar helps them purposefully instill and foster metacognition and self-regulation in students through research-based strategies.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Diversity is the name of the game in higher education today, but facilitating a genuinely multicultural classroom requires more than a fresh set of labels. Learn the four key points of entry into multicultural course design. You will be guided through a framework for creating and sustaining an inclusive classroom.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Helping Introverts Thrive in an Active Learning Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn a developmental approach to active learning that will help you create a comfortable environment for introverts and extroverts alike.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Books, Faculty
Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty
- $34.00
- 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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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
Take Note: Strategies to Develop Student Note-Taking Skills
- $329.00
- 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. Gain tools to make a real impact on class preparation, exam performance, and student satisfaction!
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Promote Deep Learning through Critical Reflection?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Without deep learning, your students can come away from courses with misunderstandings and oversimplified views of complex issues. Learn how the process of critical reflection is a reliable way to deepen the learning experience.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Even though many faculty members routinely spell out course requirements in syllabi and give announcements and reminders, students continue to come to class unprepared. We provide several dynamic strategies that you can use to help students learn the value of reading.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Get More Students to Participate in Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- A limited number of students make the majority of contributions in your classroom today. Although getting more students to participate is challenging, the good news is that it can be done, and it doesn't have to involve such tactics as cold calling on students or resorting to a points system. We describe 18 strategies that work and show how to get students to participate in class.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- One common misperception students have regarding online courses is that these courses are easier, less time consuming, and less rigorous than traditional face-to-face courses. This can lead to a major disconnect between expectations and outcome.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Authentic assessment can be difficult when you are faced with a vastly diverse audience of students. How can we best meet their needs when each of their learning styles, skills, and passions widely vary? The answer to this challenge may live within the concept of choice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Student engagement—especially in conversation and peer interaction—can be a big challenge for college educators. This program introduces four tried-and-true techniques to create a learning environment that is literally buzzing with student conversation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program explains, through the lens of the literature, how the brain processes information, and identifies why microactivities are a great method of formative assessment to check in with your students learning and move information closer to long-term memory.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- We can all use fresh ideas for engaging students with course content. What can the games we play teach us about designing our courses? Games have kept people engaged for decades because they have systematically designed engagement practices. In this program we will explore how to recognize these engagement practices and apply them into course design. Learn how to use the games that surround us to make our courses more powerful.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn techniques you can use to deepen student understanding of course material—after class is over—that you presented in the classroom. These techniques include creating reflection videos and cartoon making, among others.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program demonstrates several techniques to engage student brains in learning. All can be incorporated into either a traditional 50-minute or a longer class period. Since each students brain is unique and may learn in different ways, the presenters offer specific techniques that help vary the learning experience during a typical classroom time frame.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program addresses how student misconceptions about course content can become barriers to learning and offers several techniques to help teachers facilitate the adoption of alternative viewpoints in their students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Recent research shows that emotions have a strong impact on cognition. Instead of excluding emotion from the classroom, instructors would do well to acknowledge and take advantage of the impact emotions have on students ability to learn new material. Drawing on a proposed addition of Emotional Presence to the Community of Inquiry Framework, examine why and how emotions can increase learning and retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This informative program brings to life college classroom-tested games that work to build student rapport, inject new life into lecture-heavy teaching, and increase success rates among students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, discover best practices to follow in the classroom that will encourage students to become better learners and not engage in unproductive behaviors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In this mentor, come away with expert strategies from a world-renowned teaching and learning specialist that will move your students toward becoming effective learners, allowing them to pursue understanding, learn from failures, and continue learning for life.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- When it comes to gatekeeper courses, there are often cases where expectations and reality don't match, and fears, rumors, and beliefs about hard courses and programs discourage students and limit enrollment. By creating student buy-in and ensuring students understand that you have their best interests at heart, you can help increase their satisfaction with their college experience and influence them to move along in their academic program, resulting in positive outcomes for students, teachers, and institutions.
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