MAGNA ONLINE SEMINARS
Category: Course Design and Preparation

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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Critical thinking is a skill that students in all disciplines must master. This seminar leads educators through the process of developing and teaching a discipline-based course that targets critical thinking skills and shows participants how to effectively encourage students to think for themselves.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Course Design Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to deliver fundamental course concepts in a way that helps develop the skills that students need in order to think like professionals in your discipline. This seminar helps you adjust your course design and components to focus on the most important materials and concepts and use them to foster engaging interactions during class.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Refresh Your Course with Straightforward Design Changes
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn a new set of strategies to help you support a refreshed course, as well as strategies for making measurable improvements over time without adding undue burdens to your schedule.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar teaches you innovative ways to think about the content that is critical for your students to learn and remember. Explore the mission of content in the classroom and how to use it to provide high-quality instruction.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Evidence-Based Teaching in Higher Education: Strategies to Improve Student Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Explore the results of research on teaching and learning and discover a range of practical strategies that can make your own teaching more evidence-based and, as a result, improve your students' ability to learn when they study.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $39.00 – $697.00
- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Discover 360-degree assessment as a multiple-input approach to feedback that can improve teaching outcomes for instructors and learning outcomes for students, maximize and enhance deep, meaningful learning, and promote achievement for both teachers and students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Examine the value of interdisciplinary thinking to solve learning challenges, discover how to apply creative approaches to your course outcomes and assessments, and discover new excitement for teaching and collaborating within your discipline.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $39.00 – $697.00
- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this Magna Online Seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Course Planning by the Calendar
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn how to take a more holistic view of your courses by shifting your mindset beyond content to consider course rhythms and the natural ebbs and flows of student motivation.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
Reaching Neurodiverse Students: Course Creation Strategies
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Discover that neurodiverse differences often are not openly declared and might be hard to recognize in individuals in a classroom of students. Explore the common barriers to learning experienced by neurodiverse students and learn strategies to build content and environments that support breaking down those barriers and improving learning for all students.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Energize Your Lectures to Help Students Meaningfully Engage with Your Subject
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Gain insight into your possible teaching blind spots, learn the power of using concrete examples to help students grasp abstract concepts, explore the wide variety of example types that can be used in teaching, and learn the most effective pacing of examples in a course.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar discusses the purpose and best practices of course outcome design while identifying and refining the course outcomes in your own program, course, or unit.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Discover how changing instruction from using traditional text to adding graphic novel(s) can open communication with different student groups and also develop skills, such as visual literacy, in all students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is perfect for those of you who are just a little lost, a little confused, or really want a glimpse of course planning with a real-life instructional designer. This seminar will focus on the prep work that happens before the syllabus is given to students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Competency-Based Education at Community Colleges
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn more about what Competency-Based Education (CBE) is, what it can do for you and your students, and how to implement it at your institution.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
What to Teach When There Isn’t Time to Teach Everything
- $39.00 – $697.00
- 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, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
Tools and Techniques for Improving Course Accessibility
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Research suggests that at-risk learners often benefit from reading—as well as listening to—lectures and presentations. The technology already exists. We show you various activities to help you understand the benefits and applications of transcription technology.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, OC Discounts, Online Courses
Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses
- $329.00
- 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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- Books, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty
Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators
- $34.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Subscription, Teaching Strategies
The Teaching Professor
- From: $19.00 / month
- 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, 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
- $899.00
- 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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