Category: Personal Development

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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Classroom Climate, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Digital Library, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Faculty Support, Legal Concerns, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement, Personal Development, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Magna Seminar Series
- ~~$1,297.00~~ $997.00
- The Magna Seminar Series is a robust professional development series that is designed to save you time and money while also fueling your faculty with the tips, advice and encouragement they need. All 26 seminars included in this series allow for interactive questions and responses with the speakers, two-week access to each seminar, handouts, teaching materials and more.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal Development
- The Advantages of Virtual Meetings
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Holding meetings online may be a necessity in times of remote work and social distancing, but have you considered that virtual meetings might have an advantage over the in-person alternative? This Magna Online Seminar reviews the pros and cons of virtual meetings and provides participants with tips and best practices leading to a successful virtual meeting.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal Development
- Taking My Career to the Next Level: Grant Writing Tips and Resources
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Research funding is critical yet many faculty do not know where to begin to look for funders. This Magna Online Seminar will cover the basics of and provide practical advice for applying for grants to fund research.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal Development
- Taking My Career to the Next Level: Educational Consulting
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If you are curious about leveraging your higher-education experience into another career, this online seminar provides direct guidance about why and how to execute a career change from a former educator now leading a successful consulting practice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teacher Persona
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar helps you understand how your teaching persona, the classroom dynamic, professional satisfaction, and options for communication intersect to enhance the learning and teaching environment.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Cultivate Resilience: Six Steps for Stress Inoculation
- $39.00 – $697.00
- If student affairs professionals want to avoid burning out, they need tools for maintaining and nurturing their own mental health and balance. And these tools can, in turn, be shared to equip students to do the same. You will be trained in Dr. Kristin L. Roush's comprehensive six-step process for releasing pent-up stress. You will see how to gain a more lighthearted perspective on daily challenges. You will discover how to let go of toxic feelings that self-injure and to construct a more joyful future.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Create Influence Beyond Campus: Video Basics for Faculty
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Learn multiple ways to conceptualize video use in and out of the classroom. Explore video's role in various aspects of academic life, as well as how video can help establish your expertise and open opportunities beyond the classroom.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Talking about Student Evaluation Results: What to Say and How to Say It
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Explore ways to communicate about rating results using three scenarios based on common situations, with the goal of making the exchange a constructive conversation about teaching and learning.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- 15 Practical Strategies to Re-energize Mid-career Teachers
- $39.00 – $697.00
- A challenging economy has resulted in larger class sizes, increased workloads and more stress for faculty at colleges and universities across the country. Times like these can make it tough for educators to stay enthusiastic, but it's vital that they do so, for the sake of their students, their institutions, their careers, and their own well-being. This seminar will teach you how you can innovate your way past career stagnation and engage your students like never before.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor
- $39.00 – $697.00
- We explain not only what today's students believe are the most essential qualities for effective teaching, but also prepare you to make simple and sometimes subtle changes to incorporate or develop practices and traits that resonate with students and yield improved academic outcomes.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Considering the Courage and Practice of Teaching
- $39.00 – $197.00
- Parker Palmer, PhD, and Maryellen Weimer, PhD, talk about the underpinnings of their approaches to their work as teachers. They discuss the critical role of self-knowledge as a precursor to your work with students, as well as why it is the key to growth and development as teachers.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Faculty need efficient instruction practices when teaching online. Learn proven time management practices for your online courses. As a result, you will do a better job of providing feedback and achieving instructional priorities without spending all of your time in front of the computer.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Improve My PowerPoint Presentation Skills?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Poorly designed PowerPoint presentations distract and detract from your teaching. The proven presentation techniques you'll learn in this program will help you improve your classroom teaching and enhance student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Do I Prepare a SoTL Article for Publication?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program covers tips to help you publish a SoTL article including how to design a new SoTL project, prepare a SoTL manuscript, and avoid the pitfalls that lead to rejection of SoTL articles. It will guide you from topic selection to contacting editors regarding publishing possibilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Use Frequent Student Feedback to Improve My Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- If you are only asking for feedback at the end of the semester, there's not much you can do to improve the learning for your current students. That is why it's important to get student feedback early in the semester—and multiple times throughout—to understand your students and meet their learning needs. We share the five times in the semester when getting student feedback is valuable and provides practical ways to obtain that information.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What Can I Learn From Student Ratings?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- While student ratings are dismissed by some educators for having little to offer, these ratings can in fact be highly beneficial to teachers who want to improve their skills. Students can provide helpful and legitimate feedback on what they feel they learned, workload levels, and observable behaviors that include the teacher's pace, volume, clarity, and organization. We show you how to read student ratings to help make you a better teacher.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What Can I Do About Feeling Tired, Stressed, and Burned Out?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- There is the growing stack of papers to grade, the lectures to prepare for, and the endless drafts of scholarships for publication. No wonder many faculty members today struggle with burnout and excessive stress. We describe valuable approaches for recognizing and addressing faculty burnout and stress.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Learn Student Names?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- We help you understand the benefits of learning and using students' names and present specific techniques to help.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Personal Development
- How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- About 60-70% of faculty believe that teaching online courses is more work intensive than teaching face-to-face courses. Factors include course preparation before teaching, managing sometimes unwieldy online discussions, and even fielding student questions around the clock.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Many who teach online find it less satisfying than teaching in person. This may be due to the lack of in-person interactions or not physically being there for the aha moments your students create.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective in the classroom? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better teacher, this presentation shares teaching advice collected from outstanding research professors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective scholars? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better and more efficient researcher and writer, this presentation shares scholarship advice assembled from outstanding research professors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Balancing teaching, scholarship, and citizenship responsibilities is challenging for college professors. What can teachers do to more effectively fulfill their citizenship responsibilities?
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