MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: Magna All Access

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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Minutes?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Discover how UDL benefits all students and gives extra support to vulnerable groups, including single parents, working students, and military learners.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program covers four effective UDL strategies that go beyond legal compliance requirements. You will finish with a 20-day plan to customize a learning experience for all students that will last throughout the course and beyond the classroom
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain a clear picture of how microlectures can help you deliver a meaningful learning experience, foster a personal connection with students, and promote their full engagement in your online courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
How Can I Keep Students Engaged with Instructor Presence?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Explore the importance of faculty presence for student success in distance education. Learn how to analyze, evaluate, and improve your level of instructor presence in your courses.
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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, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can Course Design Help Prevent Online Cheating?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn the techniques that other schools have successfully used to slash the potential of cheating, assuage student anxiety about their academic performance, and propel them toward being more honest, self-reliant learners.
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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, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Design Academic Integrity into My Online Programs?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Identify academic-integrity tools and techniques that can be adapted to fit the specific needs of your program or institution-and learn the three-stage process for putting these policies and procedures into practice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how evaluation can help you to improve students experience, identify your professional development needs, and prepare for formal performance reviews, including promotion and tenure committees.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
How Can I Make Online Group Projects More Effective?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Examine the fundamental processes in collaborative learning. Learn methods for enhancing student satisfaction with online group work and see how to integrate current technology to enhance the effectiveness and ease of asynchronous collaboration.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Student Learning Begin Before the First Day of Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn to improve upon traditional first-day classroom activities and replace stilted introductions and syllabus review with active learning by utilizing distance learning tools.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Avoid Communication Misfires with Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is the Role of Communication In Teaching Excellence?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn prosocial, positive, encouraging ways to address students and spur their confidence. You'll identify both verbal and nonverbal communication cues to maximize the value of your interactions with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Communicate to Engage Students and Encourage Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to self-assess your communication skills in the instructional context to see what works best for you and your students—and pick up new techniques to broaden your abilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Save Time and Money by Repurposing Online Content?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This session will inspire you to look at your existing work in new ways. Seeing all the future uses of your online education materials will motivate you to take your course preparation work to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn the positive results—empowering students, motivating them, increasing their engagement, achieving better learning outcomes—that can be realized through strategic decisions you make about your grading policies.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Ethical Issues Lurk in My Grading Policy?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Assess your current grading practices to ensure they are grounded in fairness and objectivity. Learn about the checks and balances you can apply to your grading policies to ensure they conform to your ethical standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to assess most critical thinking skills using an assortment of methods, such as true/false, matching, multiple choice, and multiple true/false tests. Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Develop Online Instructor Presence?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn step-by-step guidelines for establishing an instructor presence in your online classes. Identify the things you want to share with your class and create a strategy for expressing your persona throughout the semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program identifies both general and discipline-specific critical thinking skills and how to turn these skills into good student learning outcomes. Learn to define critical thinking when designing or redesigning courses and identify the type of content conducive to practicing critical thinking.
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