MAGNA ONLINE SEMINAR
Category: Course Design and Preparation
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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
- 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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- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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