Category: Faculty Support

- Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Online Seminar - Live, Online Seminars, Strategic Planning
- The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Outcomes-Based Assessment of Teaching & Learning Centers
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Supporting Online Faculty
- Evaluating Online Teaching for New or Veteran Administrators
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate & Improve Your Teaching
- $297.00 – $497.00
- It is essential that faculty understand the best practices that underlie evaluations of effective online teaching. In this seminar, learn the strategies for garnering constructive feedback, make significant changes in the way you teach based on that feedback, and take more control for the results of your evaluations.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- Five Crucial Steps to Launching a New Online Degree Program
- $297.00 – $497.00
- If your institution is considering jumping on the online learning bandwagon or expanding its existing offerings, this seminar could be your key to a successful project. Gain valuable insight into the process most institutions use to create a new online degree program and learn how to start your programs with best-in-class support systems.
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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teacher Persona
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- The Academic Leader’s Toolkit for Evaluating Online Teaching
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- Online Learning: How Administrative Accountability Can Significantly Improve Student Success & Retention
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Learn how administrative oversight can dramatically increase the quality of your online learning programs when you use strategies that will help improve student retention and success.
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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Faculty Members and FERPA, ADA Section 504, and Title IX: How to Use the Fundamentals of These Regulations to Better Identify and Resolve Potential Problems
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Get answers to questions on FERPA, ADA, and Title IX, and learn how to significantly reduce the likelihood of conflict in your interactions with students, and the risk of lawsuits that can be costly and time-consuming.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Listen to the Data: Create a Data-Informed Culture
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Interpreting Rigor: Tools for Evaluating Faculty and Increasing Program Retention
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Existing pedagogical approaches to feedback often miss the mark in terms of their effectiveness in improving learning outcomes. The 360-degree assessment is a multiple-input approach to feedback that can improve teaching outcomes for instructors and learning outcomes for students, maximize and enhance deep, meaningful learning, and promote achievement for both teachers and students.
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- Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Create Influence Beyond Campus: Video Basics for Faculty
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Leadership, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars
- Developing an Effective Faculty Evaluation System
- $30.00
- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Department Chairs: Trends and Issues Over Time
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Explore data about a study Cipriano performed about the roles and responsibilities of the department chair over a 12-year timeframe. Trends will be analyzed over time and issues will be explored regarding the future of the roles and responsibilities of the chair.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- Collaborative Design for Online Introductory Courses: How to Maximize Time and Resources
- $297.00 – $497.00
- Recognizing the importance of general studies courses and the disconnect that online learners often feel the course was designed to simultaneously promote content learning; introduce students to all the professors in the department; foster excitement about the discipline; and help distance students feel more intimately connected to the academic department. An effective department-wide, collaborative course development process requires culture-building surrounding spirit of online education, policy regarding course ownership, issues surrounding compensation, and guidance for faculty that lack experience in online teaching and learning.
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- Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Supporting Online Faculty
- The Top 10 Faculty Challenges for Teaching Online
- $297.00 – $497.00
- We provide a balanced, well-informed look at the top 10 challenges faculty face in the online classroom and what you can do to help.
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- Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage & Motivate Faculty
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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
- 15 Practical Strategies to Re-energize Mid-career Teachers
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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 Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Considering the Courage and Practice of Teaching
- $30.00
- 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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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Giving Peer Feedback on Teaching: Trust, Reciprocity & Data
- $297.00 – $497.00
- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Campus Safety, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Digital Library, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, 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, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Specific Student Populations, Strategic Planning, Student Engagement, Student Support, Supporting Online Faculty, Teaching Strategies, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Magna Online Seminar Pass
- $1,697.00
- The Magna Online Seminar Pass provides access to seminars that present the latest and greatest in academia and promote skill development for both staff and faculty. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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- Books, Faculty Support, Leadership, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Supporting Online Faculty
- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Books, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- The College Teacher’s Handbook: A Resource Collection for New Faculty
- $34.00
- The College Teachers Handbook: A Resource Collection for New Faculty provides the essential tools and information that any new teacher in higher education needs to confidently lead a college classroom.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success
- $299.00
- 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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- Leadership, OC Discounts, Online Courses, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Supporting Online Faculty
- 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, Subscription
- Journal of Faculty Development
- $62.00 – $98.00
- 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
- The all-new 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. Now only $149! Also available for only $19 per month. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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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, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, 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
- Magna Commons
- $2,797.00
- Magna Commons is a subscription-based, on-demand, online, and campus-wide digital library of all of Magna Online Seminars. Suitable for faculty and administrators. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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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, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Legal Concerns, 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
- 20-Minute Mentor Commons
- $2,797.00
- An on-demand digital library of targeted faculty development that offer solutions to common classroom challenges-in just 20 minutes! A subscription gives your entire campus access to all 20-Minute Mentor programs. Current Subscribers - Log In to View Your Subscription
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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, 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
- $799.00
- 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, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Prepare a SoTL Article for Publication?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Can I Learn From Student Ratings?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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 Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- What Can I Do About Feeling Tired, Stressed, and Burned Out?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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 Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Create a Successful Faculty Mentoring Program?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Supporting Online Faculty
- What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Online Program Strategy
- How Can I Increase Faculty and Staff Buy-in For Online Programs?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program is intended for academic leaders and online education program managers establishing an online education program or meeting resistance to a current online education program. How Can I Increase Faculty and Staff Buy-in For Online Programs? is a Magna 20-Minute Mentor that explains the contributors to resistance and provides actionable solutions that will help the viewer effectively lead change at the institution.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can High Quality Faculty Development Improve Online Course Quality?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Mentor Commons, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Does Consistency Improve Quality in Online Courses and Programs?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can Student and Faculty Feedback Improve Online Program Quality?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- As colleges and universities continue to expand the number of online courses and programs they offer, faculty, staff, and administrators will continue to identify ways to improve the quality of those offerings. One sometimes-overlooked strategy to positively impact quality is to periodically survey online students and faculty to receive feedback on topics such as online course design, facilitation skills of instructors, how content is created and delivered, and if adequate technological support is available.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Is Coaching a Good Fit for My Faculty Development Program?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Do I Move from Mentoring to Coaching in Faculty Development?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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
- How Can I Effectively Supervise Teaching and Research Assistants?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help faculty identify ways to increase effectiveness in supervising and mentoring student assistants.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Most Effectively Fulfill My Citizenship Requirements?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help you think about ways you can be more effective in your citizenship responsibilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What are 10 Tips to Collaborate with Colleagues?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this 20-minute session, the goal is to help consider ways to improve collaboration with colleagues. Faculty will explore how and where collaboration is appropriate, and how to get the most out of collaboration.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Supporting Online Faculty
- What Strategies Can I Apply to Address Serious Online Faculty Performance Concerns?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can I Address Minor Online Faculty Performance Concerns with Coaching?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- By viewing student feedback through alternative lenses, faculty and administrators are able to better understand and manage mismatched definitions of rigor. Careful consideration of student feedback can lead to instructional and policy changes that facilitate closer alignment of expectations regarding rigor, assessment, and learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- When it comes to gatekeeper courses, there are often cases where expectations and reality don't match, and fears, rumors, and beliefs about hard courses and programs discourage students and limit enrollment. By creating student buy-in and ensuring students understand that you have their best interests at heart, you can help increase their satisfaction with their college experience and influence them to move along in their academic program, resulting in positive outcomes for students, teachers, and institutions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Can I Manage the Disconnect Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Rigor to Increase Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- You can't dispel students misperceptions about difficult coursework if you're unaware of what these misperceptions are. This program discusses common mismatched definitions of rigor and strategies for bridging the divide between teacher definitions and student definitions. By leveraging these strategies, you'll be better able to improve students motivation and build stronger classroom connections.
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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?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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 Effectively Mentor Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Faculty Support, Leadership, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Write Better Letters of Recommendation?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Be an Effective Mentor?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can I Engage Adjunct Online Faculty in Professional Development?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- What Do Adjunct Faculty Need to Be Successful in the Online Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Online Program Strategy, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can I Adapt an Online Faculty Peer Review Tool?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Do I Monitor and Support Online Faculty?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can I Use Peer Mentoring to Improve Online Teaching?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Explore the features of a holistic approach that aligns the selection, training, support, and evaluation of online-teaching peer mentors. Learn about the considerations of working with adjunct and/or geographically remote faculty and how to address their particular concerns.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Avoid Communication Misfires with Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn communication techniques to help you navigate difficult situations with students—such as missed assignments, poor attendance, or late work—while keeping their motivation strong and their attitude about your class positive.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Supporting Online Faculty
- What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn the merits of absolute grading versus grading on a curve, the pluses and minuses of letter-based and point-based grading, and whether—and how—to properly weight assignments across a semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Supporting Online Faculty
- How Can I Build a Successful Faculty Development Program?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Student Feedback to Improve My Teaching?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Student evaluations can affect promotions, tenure decisions, and departmental dynamics. This program will show you how you can employ student feedback to hone your teaching, improve student learning, and create a more positive classroom environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Measure My Faculty Development Center’s Impact?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty, Faculty Support, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- How Can I Give Negative Peer Feedback That Leads to Change?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- We show you strategies and specific practices you can use to make critical feedback conversations successful. Explore models, principles, and concrete actions to manage negative feedback effectively.
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