Category: Online Course Design and Preparation

Online Course Design Best Practices

Discover online course design best practices for faculty and how to improve an online course with preparation. Get instant access to our training now!

- Onboarding Meetings: Building Connection and Success from Day One
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, Dr. Christine Rizzo, Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, offers strategies on how to structure an onboarding session, identifies essential content to include, and provides a customized format based on course goals.
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- Strategies for Teaching Essential Employability Skills
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, Russell Carpenter, Assistant Provost and Professor of English, Eastern Kentucky University, explores how faculty can effectively teach essential employability skills—such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and critical thinking—within the constraints of the existing curriculum.
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- How Can I Use AI to Create Engaging Discussion Boards?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how to use generative AI to create engaging online discussion boards that foster critical thinking, application of learning, and vibrant student interaction.
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- How Can I Alleviate Student Stress and Anxiety in My Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Reduce student stress and anxiety that hinder academic performance with evidence-based strategies that align with any course to create a supportive and growth-oriented classroom environment.
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- Hybrid Learning Microcredential
- $299.00
- Our Hybrid Learning Microcredential equips you with expert insights and practical strategies to excel in flipped and blended teaching methods. Gain hands-on experience, adapt to new formats with confidence, and earn a digital badge to showcase your skills.
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- How Can I Create a Memorable Course Finale?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Discover how to create memorable and meaningful course conclusions in just 20 minutes with esteemed educators, ensuring both instructors and students feel accomplished and satisfied while avoiding the negative impact of dull final exams.
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- What Are 5 Ways H5P Tools Can Help Students Retain Course Content?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- If you are in need ideas to increase student engagement in your course, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates the value that H5P tools can provide, and examples of how to use them, to engage students in content and instructions in ways that improve comprehension and retention.
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- How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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- What Are Best Practices for Online Pedagogy?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve or are just not conversant with online teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor establishes the overall goal of virtual instruction while providing clear, practical, and proven online learning best practices.
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- What’s Different About Teaching Online, and How Do I Change So My Students Succeed?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor provides a clear distinction between online learning and face to face learning differentiating best practices and course design for more effective instruction.
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- How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Engaging Students
- $299.00
- Whether you are teaching face-to-face, online, or in a blended setting, this Magna Online Course is your one-stop shop for all things student engagement. A wealth of practical strategies and advice from experienced educators is waiting for you!
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- How Can I Effectively Move Peer Reviews Online?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For online teachers who need to engage students in a peer view of written assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor details specific instructions of how to accomplish this online, as well as what technology tools are best suited for this process.
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- Remote Teaching and Learning: Reflections and Practical Advice
- $39.00
- Remote Teaching and Learning: Reflections and Practical Advice presents fresh strategies and advice from faculty who were successful during the 2020–2021 period of remote instruction. Gain expert, proven insights from fellow colleagues that implemented effective teaching methods and see for yourself how you can use them in your own classroom.
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- How Can I Incorporate Best Practices into My Online Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty teaching online who are in need of advice on effective online teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor provides best practices from an experienced online educator for creating and delivering your course.
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- Contemplative Pedagogy for Purposeful Teaching
- $39.00 – $799.00
- 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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- Using Active Listening to Deepen Student Engagement in Live Remote Classes
- $39.00 – $799.00
- For faculty teaching online who are having issues with their students being distracted and not engaging with their content, this special, reduced-price online seminar will provide multiple proven strategies for teaching active listening across various online teaching formats.
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- How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For online instructors or teachers who want to maximize learning without significantly adding to instructor workload, this 20-Minute Mentor details how comprehensive communication, grounded in pedagogy, can enhance learning even through simple tools such as course announcements.
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- How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and don’t see student engagement on the discussion boards, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable advice on creating questions that promote critical thinking and generate meaningful discussion.
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- How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For online instructors who are creating a new online course or converting their face to face course to an online course, this 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
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- How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty teaching online, especially in a remote content delivery method who are struggling to find a meaningful way to hold office hours without overly scheduling themselves, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical advice that instructors can follow immediately to design, schedule, and facilitate online office hours to maximize students’ use.
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- How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For instructors who are new to teaching online who need guidance in creating a learning-centered online classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
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- “Help! I’m Moving My Course Online!”– Practical Advice for New Online Instructors
- $0.00
- Do you need to rapidly transition to online instruction? Can’t afford the trial and error approach? This free Magna Online Seminar will give you practical advice about the need-to-have basics for quickly and successfully transitioning your course online, from an experienced online educator.
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Online Course Design Best Practices

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