MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: Faculty
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
How Can I Reduce Student Apathy and Increase Motivation?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- There are things you can do to improve student focus and connection to the course. In 20 minutes learn how to increase relevance in five areas of your teaching—your course design, your syllabus, your classroom, your assignments, and your exams.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
How Can I Use Technology to Improve Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- The rapidly expanding body of instructional technologies can quickly overwhelm you, but it doesn't have to when you know how to narrow your options. This program presents some simple guiding principles for choosing technology to use in the classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
How Can I Use Student Feedback to Improve My Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Student evaluations can affect promotions, tenure decisions, and departmental dynamics. This program will show you how you can employ student feedback to hone your teaching, improve student learning, and create a more positive classroom environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
How Can I Use Twitter to Improve Teaching and Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Discover how you can use Twitter as an educational tool. Whether you're new to the world of hashtags and tweets, or you feel like you at least know your way around a Twitter handle, this program will provide you with practical techniques you can use to integrate social media into your classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
What Should I Do When a Student Cheats?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Three out of every four college students cheat at some point during their undergraduate careers. Learn a more effective approach to ending academic dishonesty and study real-world examples of how to implement each step of Lang's five-step model for dealing with cheating and promoting academic integrity.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
How Can I Minimize Cheating in the Classroom?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Technology and punishment alone are not solving the problem of cheating. This program will show you real world-tested techniques to help you minimize cheating by inspiring a growth mindset in your students and encouraging them to change their goals from getting good grades to mastery learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
How Can Google Docs Help Foster Productive Collaboration?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This presentation will show you how Google Docs can be one of the most effective teaching tools around. With Google Docs, you'll be able to increase student-to-student and student-to-faculty communication, deepen your students connection to course content, and help them start learning the important skill of collaboration.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
How Can I Design Copyright-Compliant Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Spare yourself a lot of problems and potential litigation by keeping your course design and use of materials within the limits of the law. This presentation will give you an overview of fair use and copyright law, and will show you best practices to keep you on the right side of the law.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
What Does Copyright Ownership Mean to Me?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In the competitive atmosphere of higher education today, faculty members are always under pressure to secure grants, publish, and build their reputations. This session covers the key issues of copyright ownership and shows how they apply to your work.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Changing how you use questions requires a few simple tweaks to your approach and not a major overhaul of your teaching methods. Learn the subtle things you can do to make your questions more powerful and your classroom interactions with students more fruitful.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
Is There a Solution to Students Multitasking in Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Distracted learning is, at times, hardly learning at all. Learn how multitasking during class affects learning and what you can do to change student behaviors and attitudes about dividing attention during class time.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
Are Group Exams a Viable Testing Option?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Group work doesn't always have the best reputation. Learn how to overcome common concerns about group exams and how to employ them to increase student learning and improve outcomes for students and for you.
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