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Category: Faculty Support

- 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
- 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 Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning
- The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence
- $39.00 – $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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?
- $19.00 – $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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- Faculty Support, Leadership, OC Discounts, Online Courses
- Evaluating Online Teaching
- $299.00
- The course is designed for convenient learning. Participants can start and stop at any point and access the content from virtually any device. A final check on learning leads to a certificate of completion. Supplemental materials support the course content, and include handouts, full transcripts, readings, and links to online resources.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Evaluating Online Teaching for New or Veteran Administrators
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar presents best practices for evaluating online teaching practices. Participants will learn to recognize the core teaching behaviors that are specific to online teaching, and they will learn to use proven evaluation methods and instruments that reliably determine the quality of online teaching.
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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 Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Academic Leader’s Toolkit for Evaluating Online Teaching
- $39.00 – $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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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Observe and Evaluate Online Teaching
- $39.00 – $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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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Accommodating Faculty Mental Health Conditions under the ADA
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar is an opportunity for administrators to receive practical advice on the ADA from an attorney with expertise in higher education compliance. Gain a clear and engaging overview of how to compassionately manage mental health issues without running afoul of the ADA.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Interpreting Rigor: Tools for Evaluating Faculty and Increasing Program Retention
- $39.00 – $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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Create a Successful Graduate Teaching Assistant Training and Development Program
- $39.00 – $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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Creating and Maintaining a Robust Faculty Mentoring Program
- $39.00 – $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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- Faculty Support, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
- Developing an Effective Faculty Evaluation System
- $39.00 – $197.00
- Learn how to create a transparent evaluation process that enables fair, balanced, and important decisions about faculty job performance. This will ultimately have a positive effect on teaching, learning, and the institution as a whole.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Evaluate the Impact of Faculty Development Programs
- $39.00 – $697.00
- Ineffective faculty development programs are a big waste of time and money. We'll show you how to create a feasible plan for measuring the success of your faculty development efforts. We also share best practices that can be used to judge your existing programs and help you plan for needed improvements.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Faculty Evaluation and Review: Guidelines for Getting it Right
- $39.00 – $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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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage & Motivate Faculty
- $39.00 – $697.00
- This seminar employs several exercises and demonstrations so that you can see how motivational interviewing works.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- 23 Practical Strategies to Help New Faculty Thrive
- $39.00 – $697.00
- It's not surprising that many new faculty members struggle when they are first asked to lead their own classes. Bad habits picked up early in a teaching career can become self-defeating in the long term. Drawing upon our presenter's 15 years of teaching and mentoring experience, we offer compelling and realistic advice on day-to-day teaching and improving student learning to guide new faculty members around predictable pitfalls and set them on the path to a rewarding teaching career.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Giving Peer Feedback on Teaching: Trust, Reciprocity & Data
- $39.00 – $697.00
- The right kind of peer evaluations can make you a better instructor and a better colleague. This seminar prepares you to guide the kind of feedback conversation that leads to better teaching and increased learning.
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- Books, Faculty Support, Leadership
- Managing Adjunct Faculty: A Resource Collection for Administrators
- $34.00
- 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, Faculty Support, Leadership
- Faculty Development: A Resource Collection for Academic Leaders
- $34.00
- 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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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Subscription
- Journal of Faculty Development
- $69.00 – $99.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Create a Successful Faculty Mentoring Program?
- $19.00 – $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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