Category: Leadership

Educational Leadership Training for Teachers and Faculty

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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Leadership, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Support
- From Research to Practice: An Instructor’s Guide for Implementing Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education
- $299.00
- This live Magna Online Seminar presents the research behind the inimical effects trauma has on students' learning and perfomance and provides the steps to take to implement a trauma-informed learning experience where all students can succeed.
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Student Support
- Applying Cultural Intelligence to Online Instruction to Maximize Student Success
- $299.00
- Learn to use Cultural Intelligence (CQ) to effectively identify, address, and manage cultural differences in the online classroom to create a more inclusive learning environment that will benefit students and impact retention and success.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Student Support
- Using an AI Chatbot: Programmed for Success
- $299.00
- Learn how to use an AI chatbot to address critical issues of college enrollment and retention while gaining strategies for implementation and planning, assessment, and continuous improvement of a bot-supported program.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT
- $299.00 – $499.00
- Join three educators as they discuss teaching in the era of ChatGPT, and answer your questions about embracing this technology.
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- Campus Safety, Compliance, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty Support, Group Subscription, Institutional Assessment, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Leadership, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Strategic Planning, Student Support, Supporting Online Faculty, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Magna Digital Library Group Subscription
- From: $1,297.00 for 1 year
- Finally, an affordable and flexible professional development solution! Magna Digital Library provides a path for your entire group, department, or institution to stay on the cutting edge of teaching and leadership topics. Imagine your staff immersed in hands-on strategies that can be applied immediately to enrich the work done at your institution and give your students the best educational experiences possible.
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- Faculty, Leadership, Leadership, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Personal Development, Strategic Planning
- Wellbeing Webinars
- $25.00
- This is your opportunity to join two higher education professionals and your peers in a live setting to discuss your choice of specific aspects of wellbeing and how it relates to your personally and professionally.
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- Leadership, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Improving Student Enrollment, Engagement, and Retention with Digital Credentials: Implementing an Impactful Program
- $79.00
- Programming with digital badging can be a competitive advantage that improves enrollment, engagement, and retention. This Magna Online Seminar explores these practical applications and provides expert advice on bringing this strategy to your campus.
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- Leadership, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Improving Student Enrollment, Engagement, and Retention with Digital Credentials: Understanding the Basics
- $0.00
- Learn best practices to support your exploration of the digital badge and micro credential space in this free Magna Online Seminar.
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- Enrichment Courses, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Principles of Effective College Teaching
- $199.00
- This Magna Online Course will help you master the delivery of your subject matter through providing in-depth instruction on the myriad responsibilities of a college teacher.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Enrichment Courses, Faculty Support, Leadership, Leadership, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Academic Leadership Essentials
- $199.00
- Academic leaders perform so many crucial tasks that new leaders can feel unprepared for their role. This Magna Online Course covers the essential areas of leadership, program assessment, and faculty development so that you can feel confident and fully prepared for your position.
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- Enrichment Courses, Faculty Support, Leadership, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- Evaluating Online Teaching
- $199.00
- Evaluating Online Teaching gives you the help you need to maintain a vibrant, respected online teaching community dedicated to continuous improvement and upholding the integrity of your online curriculum.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Enrichment Courses, Leadership, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- Leading Online Programs
- $199.00
- Leading Online Programs is a comprehensive guide for best practices in establishing an online program, leading and developing online faculty, evaluating online programs, planning for future growth, and more.
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- Enrichment Courses, Leadership, Leadership, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success
- $199.00
- A new academic leadership position brings exciting opportunities, but difficult challenges too. This course will guide you in capitalizing on your new leadership opportunity and keep your institution moving onward and upward.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Leadership, Leadership, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Academic Leadership Essentials
- $329.00
- Academic leaders perform so many crucial tasks that new leaders can feel unprepared for their role. This Magna Online Course covers the essential areas of leadership, program assessment, and faculty development so that you can feel confident and fully prepared for your position.
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- Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- From Research to Practice: Re-Energized–Focusing on Engagement to Promote Faculty Wellbeing
- $299.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is presented by the creators of the Engagement Support Framework, a research-based framework for engaging faculty dealing with burnout which will guide you in not only better facilitating your faculty's ability to achieve student success, but also in shifting your organizational culture from glorifying burnout to celebrating wellbeing.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy
- Leading Online Programs
- $329.00
- Leading Online Programs is a comprehensive guide for best practices in establishing an online program, leading and developing online faculty, evaluating online programs, planning for future growth, and more.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- 2022 Journal of Faculty Development Print Collection
- $79.00
- The 2022 Journal of Faculty Development Print Collection consists of the January, May, and September print issues, allowing you to reference the valuable insights and strategies provided in these issues for years to come.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- Journal of Faculty Development – September 2022 Print Issue
- $35.00
- The September 2022 Print Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development spotlights strategies for faculty(re)engagement, with the goal of expanding the conversation to invite more voices, perspectives, and institutions to assist with the many important, complex, and nuanced details of these efforts.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- Journal of Faculty Development – May 2022 Print Issue
- $35.00
- The May 2022 Print Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development features a range of articles that examine teaching and learning–and faculty work–within the context of faculty development. Examine the role of learning climate in faculty development, behaviors displayed by award-winning professors, faculty perceptions of teaching and learning initiatives, and an examination of how faculty receive and interpret institutional work expectations to perform their academic roles.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- Journal of Faculty Development – January 2022 Print Issue
- $35.00
- The January 2022 Print Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development focuses on areas of faculty identity and affinity spaces, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) faculty development programs, and faculty perceptions of responsibility for implementing equitable teaching practices. Plus, a Special Section devoted to Faculty Mentorship.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- Journal of Faculty Development – September 2021 Print Issue
- $35.00
- The September 2021 Print Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development explores areas of faculty productivity and advancement, faculty satisfaction and the factors for departure, faculty learning community curricula that promote access and inclusion, and reducing instructional uncertainty.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- Journal of Faculty Development – May 2021 Print Issue
- $35.00
- The May 2021 Print Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development highlights and investigates emerging practices and programs including successful program designs, inclusive excellence, and transparent teaching and learning.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- Journal of Faculty Development – January 2021 Print Issue
- $35.00
- The January 2021 Print Issue of the Journal of Faculty Development offers new ways of understanding the role of faculty developers and approaches for supporting and advancing the professoriate.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- From Research to Practice: A Co-Mentoring Model for Women in Faculty Development Leadership
- $299.00
- This Magna Online Seminar demonstrates how you can create an effective support system for women leaders through a proven model created by the expert presenters and backed by research.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Online Courses, Virtual Workshop
- Faculty (Re)Engagement Institute
- $389.00
- For those in faculty development who are experiencing faculty withdrawal or isolation from the campus community, this two-part live virtual workshop provides evidence-based solutions from the Journal of Faculty Development to ten common barriers of engagement.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Print Collection
- 2021 Journal of Faculty Development Print Collection
- $79.00
- The 2021 Journal of Faculty Development Print Collection consists of the January, May, and September print issues, allowing you to reference the valuable insights and strategies provided in these issues for years to come.
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- Campus Safety, Compliance, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty Support, Institutional Assessment, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Leadership, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Strategic Planning, Student Support, Supporting Online Faculty, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Magna Digital Library
- From: $29.00 / month
- Become an even better educator and help your students excel. With Magna Digital Library, stay ahead of the latest trends and developments in teaching, learning, and leadership practices to remind yourself why you became an educator in the first place. This on-demand streaming service helps you easily, quickly, and effectively learn and implement immediate strategies from the brightest minds in higher education.
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- Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Online Courses, Virtual Workshop
- Creating and Leading an Organizational Culture of Teaching Excellence
- $389.00
- This virtual workshop gives department and program leadership the skills necessary to develop teaching excellence among their units.
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- Books, Leadership, Leadership
- Leading through Crisis, Conflict, and Change in Higher Education
- $39.00
- Leading through Crisis, Conflict, and Change in Higher Education brings you direct advice, from qualified subject matter experts from a variety of campuses, on wide-ranging nuanced aspects of managing difficult issues and topics. Make this your tool for discovering the multiple facets of crisis communication, conflict management, and change leadership in higher education.
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- Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Tips for Department Chairs on Navigating Academic Departmental Relationships
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is for aspiring, new, and experienced academic chairs who desire a meaningful and productive working relationship with their deans and seek guidance in navigating the bureaucracy and politics of their institutions. You’ll receive insight about how to develop this important relationship to benefit and advance your department.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- The Role of Higher Education in Times of Crisis: Healing Strategies for Educators
- $0.00 – $197.00
- Colleges and universities have a long-standing role in advancing civil discourse. How can we lead our communities in a meaningful and healing way when we are geographically displaced and relying on remote, online communication? For academic leaders and faculty who are challenged with effective communication during a time of social unrest, this free Magna Online Seminar provides direction for leaders to provide healing, helping, education, and engagement.
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- Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning
- The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For educational developers who help faculty in any aspect of course preparation, delivery, or professional development, this Magna Online Seminar links this professional role to student achievement and success. You will take away a solid understanding of how educational development is vital in teaching and learning excellence and how it’s a discipline of supporting high quality student learning experiences.
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- Leadership, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
- Leading Change and Effective Communication: Quick Response to the Threat of Coronavirus to Support a Campus Community
- $29.00 – $39.00
- As COVID-19 spreads across the nation, every college and university will need a plan to respond. This online seminar will explore the approaches for preparing for the various impacts that most institutions share.
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- Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar helps individuals understand more about the positive and negative sides of leadership by comparing and contrasting two types of leadership: servant leadership and toxic leadership. By knowing how to identify both servant leadership and toxic leadership actions, behaviors, and concepts, participants will be able to advance their understanding of leadership and their own leadership practice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Engaged and motivated faculty directly impact student success. This is why effective faculty development is essential! This program details a unique perspective on how to design and deliver programming for faculty success using social learning theory, where faculty are able to interact and learn directly from their peers.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this program, Ann Taylor, PhD, assistant dean for distance learning and director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University, shares her personal Top 10 pieces of advice that she's received while working in higher-education leadership for the past two decades, illustrating each with a story of its influence.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can Universities Increase Employee Engagement in an Era of Increased Workforce Competition?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor details the concept of employee engagement, gives insight into what an engaged higher education workplace looks like, and shares successful strategies for engaging faculty and staff.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership
- How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor provides direction to use the five Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation, and Compliance, to lead your institution toward enhancing campus-wide buy-in and improving collaborations with all stakeholders.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are the most common tools for measuring instructor effectiveness. However, there is a large and growing literature documenting some of the major problems with SETs. These findings have motivated a national conversation about measurement of instructor effectiveness and the meaningfulness of statistical data collected from student evaluations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Pure Heart Leadership is a leadership approach, blending the psychology theories of Car Rogers, Albert Bandura, and Abraham Maslow, that encourages an authentic leadership while recognizing the individuality and strengths of leaders. This 20-Minute Mentor provides you with everything you need to know about this unique approach to leadership, led by the expert who developed this method.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-Minute Mentor, you will learn how to develop your own personal users' guide, which is an explanation of how to successfully work with you. This guide allows you to create a direct method for effective communication and the ability to share key information about what helps you to be an effective professional.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Evaluating Online Teaching
- $329.00
- Discover the best methods for evaluating online teaching in the classroom and learn to develop a framework for evaluations.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Outcomes-Based Assessment of Teaching & Learning Centers
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This seminar gives you a reliable framework for measuring tangible outcomes for your teaching and learning center and communicating these outcomes clearly to others.
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- Leadership, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education
- $29.00 – $697.00
- If you want to make things happen on your campus and help others embrace the changes, you just need to know the steps to take that help ensure success. This seminar breaks change down into a process and then gives you a road map to follow.
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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Personal Development
- Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teacher Persona
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This seminar helps you understand how your teacher persona, the classroom dynamic, professional satisfaction, and options for communication intersect to enhance the learning and teaching environment.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- The Academic Leader’s Toolkit for Evaluating Online Teaching
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This seminar explains the core teaching behaviors relevant to online teaching. Explore assessment methods and instruments to judge the quality of online teaching—even if you yourself have not taught online.
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- Compliance, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Legal Issues in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: How Colleges and Universities Can Hire the Right Faculty and Reduce the Risk of Costly Litigation
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Explore details of the key laws that everyone handling academic personnel matters should know, as well as key strategies for hiring the right faculty from the start. Learn about best practices that can reduce the risk of costly and time-consuming litigation and disputes.
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- Compliance, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Create and Run a Successful Threat Assessment Program
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Colleges are not powerless in the face of growing campus violence. Awareness, vigilance, and a proactive approach to threats can keep our communities safe.
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- Compliance, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Overcoming Implicit Bias in Higher Education
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Gain strategies you can use to recruit, hire, and sustain a more diverse team of academic faculty and staff. Learn about results from the latest research on implicit bias, and get proven strategies you can use to anticipate and reduce its effects on the three key stages of the search process: recruiting, hiring, and managing.
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- Compliance, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Documentation of Disability: What Is Good Practice and What Can Be Legally Required?
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn to distinguish between the two major types of accommodations, identify instances when documentation is required, and interpret the statutes and laws to guide decisions at your school.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Customized Course Review Rubrics: How to Take the Quality of Your Online Courses to the Next Level
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn who to involve in the planning, how to decide on the questions included, and the steps to creating a course review rubric that makes sense for your online programs.
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- Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
- Advanced Online Seminar: Transgender Students and Creating a Safe, Inclusive, and Legally Compliant Environment
- $29.00 – $697.00
- You'll learn about the legal rights of transgender students and what your college or university must do to be in compliance. You'll learn what policies and procedures should be reviewed and, if necessary, revised to include specific protection for transgender students.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Observe and Evaluate Online Teaching
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This program gives guidance for assessing the underlying foundation of your schools online course offerings. You will learn about the significant interactions for evaluating design and teaching in online courses.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses
- $0.00 – $697.00
- Learn why there is an increased danger of attrition in online courses and how to address this in four key areas: course design, instructor presence, personal attention, and connectedness to the institution.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Listen to the Data: Create a Data-Informed Culture
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This presentation will examine the terminology and its impact on the institution, describe the challenges and benefits of its implementation, illustrate the resources/skill-sets needed, and offer real-world examples of analyses that help to predict future student demand by identifying the data elements necessary for success.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Interpreting Rigor: Tools for Evaluating Faculty and Increasing Program Retention
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Teachers and students measure hard courses by different yardsticks. Program leaders need to be aware of these different perspectives in order to apply strategies that identify and address gaps to foster student success, increase program retention, and promote faculty development.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Create a Successful Graduate Teaching Assistant Training and Development Program
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This program offers academic leaders a flexible structure for building or strengthening their graduate teaching assistant programs from recruitment to performance feedback.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating and Maintaining a Robust Faculty Mentoring Program
- $29.00 – $697.00
- You will learn how to establish and maintain a meaningful faculty mentoring program that enables your faculty to be successful as teachers, scholars, and citizens.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- The Role of the Strategic Plan in Building Faculty Development Programs
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn the steps for creating an effective and dynamic strategic plan, ways of using the strategic plan to build institutional support for faculty development programs, and methods for using the strategic plan to communicate with outside stakeholders.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Strategies and Tactics for Institutionalizing Open Educational Resources
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Developing and implementing a strategic initiative to institutionalize the use of open educational resources (OER) does not have to be a daunting task, but can be tackled and accomplished through a series of no/low cost and easy-to-implement strategic initiatives.
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- Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Effective Diversity and Inclusion Strategies
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will provide a high-level overview on effective diversity and inclusion strategies to institute organizational culture shifts.
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- Compliance, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Fostering Resilience in Assault Survivors
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Gain a better understanding of how victim trauma can inhibit the engagement of a person in any institutional process (including learning), how to better assist victims in regaining a sense of normalcy after an assault, and appropriate methods of fostering resilience in survivors of assault.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Identifying and Eliminating Common Administrative Barriers for Transgender Students
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar empowers higher education professionals to use administrative tools and institutional resources to provide proactive, rather than simply reactive, support for transgender and gender diverse students in a collegiate setting.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Collaborative Design for Online Introductory Courses: How to Maximize Time and Resources
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar highlights a model for department-wide, collaborative online course design that is particularly relevant for introductory or general studies courses.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Online Program Design Strategies to Increase Program Graduation Rates
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar builds upon information presented in Online Course Design Strategies to Increase Student Completion Rates and extends this challenge to the program level.
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- Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Understanding Negative and Toxic Leadership and How to Overcome It
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For leaders and aspiring leaders who want to grow in their position and help others do the same, this Magna Online Seminar examines the negative or toxic attributes of leadership and will help you avoid these traits through a lens of what not to do.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
- Designing Learning Spaces for Optimal Student Engagement
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty and facility planners who desire an active, engaged classroom that simulates workplace collaborative spaces, this Magna Online Seminar shows a transformed classroom, that by design, encourages collaboration, group work, and active learning, all while preparing students for their future workplace.
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- Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Student Support
- How to Facilitate Social Justice Exercises and Programs
- $29.00 – $197.00
- More and more student affairs professionals today are being asked to facilitate training sessions on social justice-related issues due to growing interest in the areas of diversity and inclusion. This facilitation can be challenging, given the sensitive nature of the topic and how quickly this field is evolving. Our experienced trainers provide you with a broader understanding of how to create and facilitate successful workshops.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Faculty Evaluation and Review: Guidelines for Getting it Right
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discrimination, litigation, and accusations—faculty evaluations can have negative consequences when conducted incorrectly. For deans and department chairs, developing a good faculty evaluation process is crucial to the health of the department and college as a whole. Take steps to ensure you get it right, because well-conducted evaluations don't just avoid problems—they inspire individual faculty and elevate entire departments.
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- Leadership, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Leading Change: A Framework for Department Chairs
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Colleges and universities are confronting the need to change. That makes this the perfect time to implement innovations to improve your department, help students succeed, and promote the public good. Learn a conceptual approach that will help you stop reacting to change—and start leading it.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage & Motivate Faculty
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This seminar employs several exercises and demonstrations so that you can see how motivational interviewing works.
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- Books, Faculty Support, Leadership
- Managing Adjunct Faculty: A Resource Collection for Administrators
- $39.00
- Adjuncts have a looser connection to your institution than your full-time faculty; it comes with the territory. But a well-supported, cohesive adjunct cohort is essential to achieving your institution's goals for instructional quality and student outcomes. Purchase multiple copies of this book and take advantage of bulk pricing.
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- Books, Leadership, Leadership, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- The Academic Leader’s Handbook: A Resource Collection for College Administrators
- $39.00
- The Academic Leader's Handbook: A Resource Collection for College Administrators details an array of proven management strategies and will help further your achievements as a leader in higher education. Discover new leadership tools and insights at departmental, administrative, and executive levels.
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- Books, Faculty Support, Leadership
- Faculty Development: A Resource Collection for Academic Leaders
- $39.00
- In Faculty Development: A Resource Collection for Academic Leaders, you'll discover proven tips and insights, from top academic experts, that will help you enhance faculty development programming and training on your campus!
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- Leadership, Leadership, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success
- $329.00
- New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success is a Magna Online Course designed to help new leaders capitalize on their opportunities as change agents, and manage the challenges that arise in any position involving oversight of faculty.
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- Compliance, Leadership, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Introduction to Legal Issues for Academic Leaders
- $329.00
- Introduction to Legal Issues for Academic Leaders is a three-part expert-delivered course that gives newly appointed deans and department chairs an overview of 10 critical higher education law topics to make new leaders familiar with difficult issues that they will likely face.
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- Books, Leadership, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- The New Dean’s Survival Guide: Advice from an Academic Leader
- $39.00
- Have you been newly hired as a dean or are you looking for practical tips to help you navigate the challenges and responsibilities in your position as an academic leader? Find numerous tools and strategies to address challenges, successes, and issues leaders face with this comprehensive survival guide with advice for deans, provosts, and managers in higher education.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Subscription
- Journal of Faculty Development
- $89.00 – $119.00
- The Journal of Faculty Development is an independent, peer-reviewed journal. Issued three times per year, it is a medium for the exchange of information regarding faculty development in post-secondary educational institutions.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning, Subscription, Supporting Online Faculty
- Academic Leader
- From: $19.00 / month
- Academic Leader covers the trends, challenges, and best practices today's academic decision-makers need to protect and enhance their institution's mission while meeting the evolving demands from internal and external stakeholders.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Group Subscription, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Monday Morning Mentor, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies
- Monday Morning Mentor
- $999.00
- Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week - 16 in the fall and 16 in the spring.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Do I Create a Successful Faculty Mentoring Program?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn principles, practices, and resources you need to create a successful mentoring program to welcome new faculty members and set them up for success. Explore the different sides of six essential decisions underlying development of an effective program.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Should I Manage Conflict Within My Department?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This presentation focuses on how building relationships and clarifying leadership roles can limit the development of disagreements and set the stage for successful resolution when conflicts do arise. Learn how to take a proactive approach to behavior that is less than collegial.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Changing an educational format or program can be challenging for both instructors and students. Viewing classroom change through the Kubler-Ross change curve helps determine that stress and resistance can be managed through to experimentation and integration over time.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Build a Mindset for Assessment in an Academic Department?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Assessment is at the heart of effective teaching and student success. Assessment is regularly practiced in the classroom by faculty; yet moving assessment into a more formal, structured, and systematic department process may make faculty feel vulnerable.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership
- How Can I Analyze Department Data and Move Towards Closing the Assessment Loop?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program explores the steps that should be considered once assessment data has been collected at the departmental level. These steps cover very practical implications and the planning tips provided help ensure this process is efficient, meaningful, and considered worthy of your faculty's time.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Change is sweeping through higher education. Major strategic choices come from university leadership rather than deans and department chairs. The deans and department chairs represent the middle management where actual change must be implemented. This 20-Minute Mentor helps explicate the causes of these changes and the strategies to address the need for change.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This mentor is especially useful for anyone new to evaluating faculty, uncomfortable with confrontation or coaching difficulty conversations, or interested in redesigning the evaluation process or mechanism (form/tool) on their campus.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can High Quality Faculty Development Improve Online Course Quality?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This mentor will cover the benefits of providing high quality professional development opportunities for faculty, what some of these opportunities (or programs) might look like, and ultimately how these opportunities can positively impact the overall quality of online programming.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Online Program Strategy
- How Does Consistency Improve Quality in Online Courses and Programs?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Enhancing consistency in online courses and programs is a current topic of interest to university administrators. Viewing this mentor will lead to enhanced awareness of the many benefits to both students and faculty that come from consistent course design. The program provides development staff, faculty, and other administrators many ideas that can be implemented easily at almost any institution.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- Is Coaching a Good Fit for My Faculty Development Program?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, you will identify next steps to implementing coaching, whether there is currently a mentoring program in place at your institution or not.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Do I Move from Mentoring to Coaching in Faculty Development?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn three learning objectives that will help with your mentoring and coaching processes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What Tools Can I Use to Ensure I Have Effective Coaching Conversations with Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, you will learn how to have effective coaching conversations with your faculty.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What Strategies Can I Apply to Address Serious Online Faculty Performance Concerns?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn about focusing on individuals and context to personalize your efforts while maintaining consistent standards and expectations: what kinds of performance concerns are common to online teaching and why they need to be repaired, how to identify serious lapses in performance that may not appear on performance management reports, and how to work with challenging faculty.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Address Minor Online Faculty Performance Concerns with Coaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, the focus is on minor performance concerns that can be corrected through coaching. Learn how to differentiate between minor performance concerns that could benefit from coaching and those that require more formal performance management.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn to build community with online faculty as an essential component of performance management, effective ways to set the tone for both leading and managing online faculty, how to communicate clearly and consistently to keep faculty informed, and how to employ strategies for regular coaching outreach efforts to work with online faculty on a variety of teaching performance areas.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Create a Faculty Development Program that is Engaging and Effective?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Through this 20-minute program, you will gain new ideas, perspectives, and strategies based on current literature that improve the effectiveness of your faculty development programs, your teachers, and your institution.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Gain Institutional Buy-In for Using OER?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Adopting OER on the institution-wide level can significantly expand and improve upon the goals of the institution. But garnering faculty and institutional support is its own beast. This program walks you through methods for cultivating buy-in from academic stakeholders and faculty, methods for promoting the benefits of OER across campus and disciplines, establishing an implementation team, and building a successful launch.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What are the Key Components of the Online Instructor Onboarding Process?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- To ensure faculty have a seamless transition into their online role, your institution needs to have a proper onboarding process in place that introduces instructors to the unique aspects of the online classroom. This program provides best practices for onboarding online faculty and ensuring online programs run smoothly and successfully.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What Should I Look for When Hiring New Online Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Discover the qualifications and traits administrators should seek when hiring for three distinct online roles as well as strategies for attracting qualified faculty to such positions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Making sure students are taught by quality faculty—often adjunct instructors—is key to retention and brand success. This program contains proven strategies that can be used to attract and retain the best adjunct instructors for online courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Effectively Review Online Courses and Programs for Quality?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- You'll be walked through the various options available for quality reviews, the reasons why more institutions are conducting these reviews, and how they are successfully coordinating them.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Student Support
- How Can I Effectively Mentor Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain fresh perspectives and new ideas about faculty and student mentoring, be inspired to do more for students and colleagues, and improve as a mentor, mentee, and teacher.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Can I Write Better Letters of Recommendation?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn to write letters of recommendation more effectively and efficiently, by inspiring the student to be more accountable in the process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership
- How Can I Be an Effective Mentor?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Balancing theory and practice, this fast and focused session will show you how you can be an effective advisor and coach without detracting from your other responsibilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Strategic Planning
- How Can I Lay the Groundwork for Positive Technology Changes?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Delve into how to think strategically about introducing a new technology to your campus and explore proven techniques for dealing with the technophobes and change-averse employees in your campus community.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Online Program Strategy
- How Does My Department Become More Strategic with Online Programming?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn the importance of evaluating what has motivated online course and program development in the past to guide your decisions today. You'll discover who should be involved in the process of fine-tuning your online programming.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Do I Overcome Faculty Barriers to Online Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Explore the different fears and concerns of faculty when it comes to online teaching and acquire practical answers. You'll learn about the misconceptions that educators harbor about online courses and how to debunk them in respectful, constructive ways.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Online Program Strategy
- How Do I Create an Online Education Policy and Procedures Manual?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to choose the correct stakeholders at your school and gain their cooperation for a policy and procedures manual. You'll see how to request their feedback and make thoughtful improvements and revisions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Months?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this program, you'll discover specific places where students benefit the most from UDL principles. You'll see how to provide learners with full alternative paths through your courses—and how to execute this in about 20 months.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Engage Adjunct Online Faculty in Professional Development?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to focus your developmental offerings on the topics that will benefit your adjuncts most; you'll consider the most effective delivery methods for this far-flung and difficult-to-schedule constituency; and you'll learn how to provide meaningful incentives for adjuncts to participate in training.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What Do Adjunct Faculty Need to Be Successful in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn just how much information adjuncts require about your institution, your administrative processes, your pedagogical expectations, and their developmental opportunities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn the difference between the design elements of a course and the instructional interactions done in the online classroom that count as teaching practices. Identify the five key online teaching behaviors from your Learning Management System.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Do I Monitor and Support Online Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to communicate with faculty about expectations for their performance. Examine how the hiring, training, development, and evaluation of online faculty can come together in a holistic approach that reinforces these teaching competencies.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Measure My Faculty Development Center’s Impact?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In an era of ever-tightening budget restrictions placed on universities and departments, no program or academic center is safe from cutbacks. This program prepares you to measure and articulate the value of your center in ways that matter to people who think about line items and dollar signs.
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