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Course Design and Preparation

Course Design and Preparation for Teachers and Faculty

Discover the best course design and preparation strategies for teachers and faculty with our online courses. Start learning today by enrolling now!

- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Teaching Strategies
- How Do I Get Students to Complete Reading Assignments?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn the research behind why students are not completing their reading assignments and take away a simple yet effective four-step, task-based approach that will get students to complete these assignments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Technology Platforms to Engage Students in Active Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain new ideas for implementing user-friendly and free technology tools in classrooms to create authentic learning experiences for students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use AI to Draft Course Materials?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Educators will receive guidance into the world of AI tools for teaching which can lead to more effective and engaging teaching practices.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use AI to Create Multimedia Teaching Materials?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to utilize AI to create course materials in order to free up more time for more human aspects of teaching, such as meeting with students, providing personal feedback, and content delivery.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Intentionally Create a Course that Boosts Learning and Decreases Student Stress?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- By making slight tweaks to course design, teaching faculty can make meaningful strides in relieving student mental health concerns and stress, as well as increasing learning and retention. This 20-Minute Mentor provides concrete examples to show you how!
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- How We Can Help Our Students Become Better Critical Thinkers, and Why It Matters
- $299.00
- Learn several easy-to-implement strategies to teach students critical thinking skills, which will not only impact their college success, but also their future.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT
- $299.00 – $499.00
- Join three educators as they discuss teaching in the era of ChatGPT, and answer your questions about embracing this technology.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Enrichment Courses, Faculty
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course
- $199.00
- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Course gives teachers the tools to light a path for their students. Benefit from research-based, classroom-tested best practices that can be immediately applied in the classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Discover how to integrate meaningful communication skills with instruction and reflection to enrich the online student learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities through service learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who have mixed- or low-level reading skills among students combined with course materials that are reading intensive, this 20-Minute Mentor details skills to implement that help strengthen student reading as well as instructional techniques to intervene before students lag behind.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who feel overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how the benefits of hyflex teaching outweigh the challenges for both teachers and students alike while delivering time saving successful strategies to employ.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Student Engagement
- How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty whose syllabi are often unread by students, leading to confusion and even misinformation later in the course, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how to make a visually appealing syllabus that quickly communicates crucial course details to students in an engaging way.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who want to improve student feedback while not adding to their grading workload, this 20-Minute Mentor provides expert guidance to creating better opportunities for your students while being more efficient with your grading.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For educators who are looking for ways to close the gaps between privileged and minoritized students, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to improve the success of minoritized students through implementing an antiracist syllabus.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors
- $329.00
- Achieve and sustain classroom success through this Magna Online Course which provides an in-depth examination of five core principles of college teaching.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty whose students are not retaining course concepts for the duration of the semester, this Magna Online Seminar explains interleaving content during instruction and studying to improve student success through increased content retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor focuses on the instructional considerations necessary for supporting student learning online and the numerous factors for achieving online student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty seeking advice on writing more effective exam questions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many tips and strategies for reinvigorating exam question sets to provide students better examinations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who want to increase their exam security, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to use question banks to create unique exams and improve academic integrity.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Planning and Designing a Course
- $329.00
- For faculty searching for a deeper understanding of course planning tools such as backward design, mastery grading, and universal design for learning, this Magna Online Course provides you with practical guidance from expert educators who have implemented these strategies in their own classrooms.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Giving Narrative Shape to Your Online Classroom
- $29.00 – $697.00
- More than ever, students are motivated by knowing how a course will serve them in future learning or in life after college. This Magna Online Seminar helps faculty create a narrative that connects daily learning to future careers.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Flipping Your Classroom
- $329.00
- The flipped classroom offers many advantages to students including flexibility, an improved learning environment, and additional opportunities for engagement with students, the teacher, and the content. This Magna Online Course is your flipping-classroom foundation, bestowing pedagogy, strategies, and actionable ideas related to flipping a class - all in one place.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Seminars
- Contemplative Pedagogy for Purposeful Teaching
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty who are frustrated with the rapid, "get-it-done" pivot to remote instruction, this Magna Online Seminar provides strategies and tactics to immediately incorporate contemplative pedagogy into your teaching practice to provide more meaningful instruction and interactions.
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