Category: Course Design and Preparation

- 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
- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
- $207.90 – $347.90
- 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
- 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
- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learning outcomes and objectives are the first step in backwards design. As such they hold the primary spot in the course development process. Faculty engaged in course or program development who are ill-equipped to design meaningful and measurable outcomes face the prospect of a poorly designed course and less than meaningful learning experiences for students.
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- Course 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
- 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
- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, COVID-19 Resource, 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
- $207.90 – $347.90
- Naturally, adults and children learn in different ways. However, this truism does not necessarily translate when learners transition from secondary to post-secondary educational settings. It's even more elusive in online learning environments, as students are not immediately visible to their instructors.
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- 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
- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $297.00 – $497.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is perfect for those of you who are just a little lost, a little confused, or really want a glimpse of course planning with a real-life instructional designer. This seminar will focus on the prep work that happens before the syllabus is given to students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Understanding Open Educational Resources (OER): A Powerful Solution for Both Faculty and Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
- In this online seminar, we'll examine the research on Open Educational Resources (OER) usage in collegiate classes and their impact on student retention and success.
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- 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
- 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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- 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
- Determine the opportunities for online learning in your classes and outline a methodology for developing them.
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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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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
- Learn the skills needed to become more learner-centered and flip your classroom.
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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
- 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, 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
- 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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