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Category: Faculty Support

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- 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
- Discover the best methods for evaluating online teaching in the classroom and learn to develop a framework for evaluations.
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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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should I Coach an Underperforming Colleague?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- In higher education, supervisors are also colleagues, which makes dealing with faculty who aren't meeting expectations particularly challenging. Get guidance on handling poor performance. You'll learn how to understand what causes poor performance and concentrate your energy where you can do some good.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can High Quality Faculty Development Improve Online Course Quality?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Is Coaching a Good Fit for My Faculty Development Program?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Move from Mentoring to Coaching in Faculty Development?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- What Tools Can I Use to Ensure I Have Effective Coaching Conversations with Faculty?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- What Strategies Can I Apply to Address Serious Online Faculty Performance Concerns?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Address Minor Online Faculty Performance Concerns with Coaching?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Create a Faculty Development Program that is Engaging and Effective?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What are the Key Components of the Online Instructor Onboarding Process?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- What Should I Look for When Hiring New Online Faculty?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Be an Effective Mentor?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Overcome Faculty Barriers to Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Engage Adjunct Online Faculty in Professional Development?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- What Do Adjunct Faculty Need to Be Successful in the Online Classroom?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Adapt an Online Faculty Peer Review Tool?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn an approach to distance education evaluation based on 50 years of research into the principles of effective teaching. This concise and content-rich video will show you the different evidence evaluators seek when reviewing good online teaching and the different techniques for reviewing online educators.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Monitor and Support Online Faculty?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Build Momentum for Change with Short-term Wins?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- If you need to implement some kind of change, you know what kind of challenge lies ahead. This program demonstrates how to plan for, recognize, celebrate, and build on short-term wins to support and sustain your long-term change effort.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Build a Successful Faculty Development Program?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- With the right programming, you can make sure that your faculty have access to and actually use the professional development resources they need in order to remain compliant and relevant. This presentation covers the major points of inservice program development, from goal setting and generating faculty buy-in to logistics and content management.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Better Manage Difficult Conversations with Faculty?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Is there a conversation you should have with a faculty member that you're putting off because you're afraid of how she or he will react? A technique called motivational interviewing is the key and you'll learn how it could help you do a better job of navigating the rough spots of academic life in this program.
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