Category: Mentor Commons

- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons
- How Can Universities Increase Employee Engagement in an Era of Increased Workforce Competition?
- $19.00 – $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, 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?
- $19.00 – $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, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
- $19.00 – $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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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Student Engagement
- What Do Students Expect from Online Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Asking the right questions can be just as important as getting the right answers. This is particularly important when it comes to designing for the online student. Learn how you can create a better online course experience. This pointed and practical session will show you how to meet online students desires without sacrificing your standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Technology to Create Custom Automated Feedback?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- High-quality, individualized feedback is essential for effective online teaching. Learn how to use feedback banks, feedback technology, and automated feedback to improve your online comments to students. In the process, you'll also improve your students' experience with online teaching, increasing their learning, motivation, and satisfaction.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Faculty need efficient instruction practices when teaching online. Learn proven time management practices for your online courses. As a result, you will do a better job of providing feedback and achieving instructional priorities without spending all of your time in front of the computer.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Enhance the Impact of Feedback in Online Classes?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Feedback is a key element in the learning process. Discover multiple feedback strategies that can grab students' attention, help them learn from their mistakes, and upgrade your online feedback, making it more specific, timely, and effective.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make My Exams More about Learning, Less about Grades?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how you can transform exams into enhanced opportunities for student learning with practical solutions to the three core problems with exams today. Making exams better suit your learning goals requires student participation at every step of the process. Your presenter, Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., shares real-world, tested guidelines for integrating student input.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- You know how essential it is for students to be active participants in their education. But how do you grade them on it? In this program, you'll learn an overview of what not to do when grading participation, activities worth doing, how to do them, and how to evaluate your own process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Is Your Syllabus Sending the Wrong Message?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Your syllabus and classroom policies set the tone for your class, but they may not be creating a welcoming learning environment. Learn tips designed to help you use classroom policies to support student engagement and a smooth-running classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Can I Help Student Veterans Transition to Campus?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Adapting to life on campus can be difficult for student veterans. Learn practical tips on how you can support student veterans in their return to civilian life. These techniques include incorporating service-learning and team activities to draw on student veterans strengths and reduce their social isolation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Accommodate Student Veterans with Disabilities?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Veterans returning to higher education face cognitive and physical challenges. Discover effective responses to the learning needs of today's disabled student veterans and understand the impact of acquired disabilities on learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- What Learning Activities Help Student Veterans Succeed?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn practical techniques you can implement immediately to help student veterans succeed. Techniques include understanding the differences between military and academic decision making, as well as how to teach student veterans how to reflect and write for an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Design Courses to Enhance Student Veterans’ Success?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Military service is a formidable educational experience. Learn how to use course design to help student veterans make the most of it. In the process, you'll also learn how to enhance learning for all students. This program covers situational factors, assessment, and learning activities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Should I Encourage Experiential Learning During Class? How?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Lectures are not effective for all students. Help all your students make the most of their education by adding experiential learning to your instructional toolkit. Find out how you can bring this high-impact educational practice into your classroom and increase student engagement in learning with this 20 Minute Mentor.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Develop a High-Impact Capstone Course?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Capstone courses help students synthesize their college education before they embark on professional careers or graduate studies. This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to construct a capstone course for specific learning outcomes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Teaching critical reflection skills in STEM courses helps develop professionals who can think, analyze, reason, solve problems creatively, and communicate. While some may be hesitant about teaching these skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses, thats where students and society can reap multiple benefits from critical reflection. Learn how to incorporate these skills in your STEM courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Improve Lessons with a 4-step Plan?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Lesson planning is a complex process that can take hours and hours of your time. You need to answer the question, What are my students going to learn today? Mary Clement, EdD, has mastered the lesson planning process and developed a four-step plan that simplifies how you plan and creates even stronger, more engaging lessons.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Include Introverts in Class Discussions?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Introverted students can find themselves at a disadvantage in the contemporary college classroom. Learn effective teaching strategies to engage introverted students in class discussions and how to guide them beyond their comfort zones.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Developing a clear understanding of where you want your course to go and what your students will learn is essential for faculty. By articulating your pedagogical goals, you will clarify your practices and take both your teaching and your students to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make My Multiple Choice Tests More Effective?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to make your multiple choice tests more effective by creating a test blueprint and formulating test questions that go beyond memorization to evaluate thinking skills. Testing is more than a responsibility for faculty members. It's an opportunity to assess the progress you and your students have made toward your learning objectives. Multiple choice tests aren't about playing the odds—instead, they can help you make the most of your chances to connect with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Rubrics help you develop a better grading system, one that delivers fair results, helps students learn, and makes effective use of your time. In this program, you will get examples of the three basic formats for rubrics and explore seven key recommendations developed to help you transform the grading process.
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