MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: Magna All Access

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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
How Can Discussion Responses Give Narrative Shape to an Online Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For online teachers who are looking to create a more useful and engaging discussion board that ties to course content, this 20-Minute Mentor provides practical strategies to manage the discussion board and use it to frame course content.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For online instructors or teachers who want to maximize learning without significantly adding to instructor workload, this 20-Minute Mentor details how comprehensive communication, grounded in pedagogy, can enhance learning even through simple tools such as course announcements.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty working online who have not considered using the discussion board beyond its basic function and are trying to avoid lifeless discussion boards that fail to engage students, this 20-Minute Mentor provides three areas for faculty to improve: engagement, community, and expertise, and specific strategies for doing so.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For online educators who want to assist students in effective note-taking in order to best succeed in learning content, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for educators to guide student note-taking specifically in the online classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For remote and online teachers who want to assess learning to keep students on track, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many ideas specific to online and remote teaching for activities, assignments, and assessments that gauge learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For educators who are new to teaching remote, synchronous classes and realize students are easily bored or distracted, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for engaging students immediately with games, activities, or polls.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Magna All Access, Teaching Strategies
What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and don’t see student engagement on the discussion boards, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable advice on creating questions that promote critical thinking and generate meaningful discussion.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For online instructors who are creating a new online course or converting their face to face course to an online course, this 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and are struggling with time management, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to plan and prioritize for the instructional activities that have the greatest impact on student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty teaching online, especially in a remote content delivery method who are struggling to find a meaningful way to hold office hours without overly scheduling themselves, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical advice that instructors can follow immediately to design, schedule, and facilitate online office hours to maximize students’ use.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in Online Courses
What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty teaching online courses who are interested in incorporating easy-to-use technology to enhance student learning, this 20-Minute Mentor describes five technologies, and includes the appropriate application and benefits of each, to create a personalized, interactive, impactful, and engaging learning experience
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For instructors who are new to teaching online who need guidance in creating a learning-centered online classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
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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, 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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- Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Using Brief Interventions to Maximize Student Learning
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn five fundamental principles of human learning and how to incorporate these principles into your current courses to immediately increase learning.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
Designing Online Learning to Spark Intrinsic Motivation
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This seminar helps you engage your students so they rediscover their natural curiosity and drive to learn. Learn how to incorporate specific instructional strategies that help students align their personal goals with your course content so they can see the value in learning what you teach.
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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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Examine common question-writing pitfalls and learn item analysis, so you can examine the performance of your questions and determine how to refine them for next time.
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