Category: On-Demand Seminars

The recorded version of our live online seminars, these products provide actionable information on an array of topics for higher ed faculty and administrators. Packages include the presentation, supplemental materials, and transcript.

- Campus Safety, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Leading Change and Effective Communication: Quick Response to the Threat of Coronavirus to Support a Campus Community
- $39.00
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- As COVID-19 spreads across the nation, every college and university will need a plan to respond. This online seminar will explore the approaches for preparing for the various impacts that most institutions share.
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- On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
- $39.00
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- This online seminar is designed for educators who are interested in learning about how they can teach their students despite the presence of trauma. Participants will acquire strategies they can use to help students continue their learning in the middle of this pandemic.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- A tenured Universal Design for Learning (UDL) expert will discuss assessment alternatives based on UDL framework that are acceptable even in cases where instructors do not believe they have flexibility to change assessments.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Teaching Non-Traditional Students: An Asset-Based Approach
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar helps you frame non-traditional students' life and work experiences as assets to leverage in the classroom. It explores some instructional design and delivery tactics you can use in classes that consist of mostly non-traditional students or those that have just a few.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Using Brief Interventions to Maximize Student Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Classroom Assessment Techniques
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are simply proven strategies that instructors can use to determine whether and how well students are learning course material. This seminar prepares you for using formative assessments to improve student performance on critical summative assessments.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Designing Online Learning to Spark Intrinsic Motivation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- 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
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- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Helping Students Succeed in a Large Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Despite what your nerves might try to tell you, a large class does not have to be a hard class to teach. This seminar covers everything you need to know to adequately prepare for, manage, and engage a large class.
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- Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy, Student Engagement
- Thriving as an Online Learning Administrator: 12 Strategies
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Meeting the challenges and capitalizing on the opportunities of online education requires a strategic approach. This seminar helps you improve the quality of your programming and promote the growth of online education at your institution.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Designing & Teaching a Course with a Critical Thinking Focus
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Critical thinking is a skill that students in all disciplines must master. This seminar leads educators through the process of developing and teaching a discipline-based course that targets critical thinking skills and shows participants how to effectively encourage students to think for themselves.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Course Design Strategies to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills
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- Learn how to deliver fundamental course concepts in a way that helps develop the skills that students need in order to think like professionals in your discipline. This seminar helps you adjust your course design and components to focus on the most important materials and concepts and use them to foster engaging interactions during class.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Flex learning is the next evolution of blended learning. It enables students to learn in the way that works best for them. This seminar will show you how the flex model allows instructors to imaginatively redesign almost any course to better meet the needs of students and guide them toward greater academic success.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Everybody Present: Mindfulness in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- With so many easy interruptions to our concentration, it's no wonder that students can find it hard to follow a classroom discussion closely. This seminar increases your awareness of the power of mindfulness techniques to enhance the teaching experience for you and the learning experience of your students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Below the Surface: Strategies for Deep and Lasting Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn how to identify and implement instructional strategies that hold students' attention, bolster retention rates, and lead to deep learning. This seminar gives you the classroom-tested strategies you need to keep your courses engaging and effective.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Prepared Students: The Secret’s in the Assignment Strategy
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- It's no secret that prepared students learn more and achieve better outcomes. This Magna 40-Minute Seminar helps you identify why your students are not coming to class prepared and then determines what you can do about it.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- If you want to make things happen on your campus and help others embrace the changes, you just need to know the steps to take that help ensure success. This seminar breaks change down into a process and then gives you a road map to follow.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices in Flipped Class Design
- $297.00
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- See how the flipped learning model can meet the challenges of today's student body. This seminar gives you the knowledge about how flipped learning works in different disciplines and the conceptual tools for constructing a flipped classroom of your own.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Discussion: Practices to Boost Learning & Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Given the increase in online teaching, instructors need to make sure online discussion is genuinely promoting student engagement and helping reach the course's learning goals. Learn to use common coaching techniques to improve the quality of your online discussion groups, keep students on task, and advance learning.
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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
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- 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
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Educators who want to ensure that their students are engaging fully with the course material need specialized assessment tools to evaluate their progress and make changes efficiently. This seminar aims to show educators in flipped learning classrooms the assessment options available and how to use them for the best results.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- Five Tips to Engage Students Outside of the Online Classroom
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- What if you could reach beyond the confines of the online classroom to engage more fully with your students? In this seminar, explore specific activities and projects that can help your students develop a deep, rich connection to your coursework and subject matter outside of the online classroom.
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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
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Choosing and Using Group Activities in the College Classroom
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- Whether you teach in a traditional classroom or use flipped instruction strategies, group work can work for you. This seminar introduces you to three different group work methodologies and helps you identify which ones are appropriate for your course, your students, and your teaching style.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Dealing with Student Behaviors That Compromise Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Policies alone will not elicit the best work from your students. However, there are ways to help your students recognize how their behaviors affect their grades and their overall success. This seminar shows you how to adjust your teaching style and assignments to keep your students focused before, during, and after class.
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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
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- 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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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Refresh Your Course with Straightforward Design Changes
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- Learn a new set of strategies to help you support a refreshed course, as well as strategies for making measurable improvements over time without adding undue burdens to your schedule.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Taming the Monster: Rethinking the Role of Content
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar teaches you innovative ways to think about the content that is critical for your students to learn and remember. Explore the mission of content in the classroom and how to use it to provide high-quality instruction.
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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
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- 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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- Campus Safety, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Sexual Violence: What to Expect from an OCR Title IX Investigation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This presentation explores the evolution of Title IX, since its inception in 1972, to provide important context that has led to an increase in sexual violence complaints and compliance reviews from the Office for Civil Rights. Howard Kallem shines a spotlight on the Office for Civil Rights Title IX Investigations process, so that you can ultimately improve your Title IX compliance program and better prepare your institution.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Support
- Cultivate Resilience: Six Steps for Stress Inoculation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- If student affairs professionals want to avoid burning out, they need tools for maintaining and nurturing their own mental health and balance. And these tools can, in turn, be shared to equip students to do the same. You will be trained in Dr. Kristin L. Roush's comprehensive six-step process for releasing pent-up stress. You will see how to gain a more lighthearted perspective on daily challenges. You will discover how to let go of toxic feelings that self-injure and to construct a more joyful future.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Evidence-Based Teaching in Higher Education: Strategies to Improve Student Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore the results of research on teaching and learning and discover a range of practical strategies that can make your own teaching more evidence-based and, as a result, improve your students' ability to learn when they study.
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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
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- 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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- Campus Safety, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- The Intersection of Title IX and Clery: Implementing the VAWA Amendments
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- While these laws both work to improve campus safety, there are some critical differences between them. The Intersection of Title IX and Clery: Implementing the VAWA Amendments will compare and contrast Title IX and the Clery Act, and then explain how to implement the VAWA amendments.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain insights into what keeps students from participating in a discussion—and how to overcome those barriers. Explore strategies you can use to better structure each discussion for increased student involvement.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management, Strategic Planning
- Legal Issues in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: How Colleges and Universities Can Hire the Right Faculty and Reduce the Risk of Costly Litigation
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- Explore details of the key laws that everyone handling academic personnel matters should know, as well as key strategies for hiring the right faculty from the start. Learn about best practices that can reduce the risk of costly and time-consuming litigation and disputes.
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- Campus Safety, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management
- How to Create and Run a Successful Threat Assessment Program
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- Colleges are not powerless in the face of growing campus violence. Awareness, vigilance, and a proactive approach to threats can keep our communities safe.
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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
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- 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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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning, Student Support
- Overcoming Implicit Bias in Higher Education
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain strategies you can use to recruit, hire, and sustain a more diverse team of academic faculty and staff. Learn about results from the latest research on implicit bias, and get proven strategies you can use to anticipate and reduce its effects on the three key stages of the search process: recruiting, hiring, and managing.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Managing Hot Moments and Difficult Discussions in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain proven strategies for managing difficult dialogue and responding to hot moments in the classroom. Learn how to prepare for a challenging discussion and make it more productive, as well as how to assess the outcomes of the experience and the impact it had on your students.
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- Campus Safety, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management
- Documentation of Disability: What Is Good Practice and What Can Be Legally Required?
- $279.00 – $497.00
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- Learn to distinguish between the two major types of accommodations, identify instances when documentation is required, and interpret the statutes and laws to guide decisions at your school.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Transgender Students and Employees: How to Comply with the Latest Title IX Guidance
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain an understanding of Title IX and what the recent guidance means for colleges and universities. Explore the recent guidance at just the right time: as you start to assess your programs and activities in terms of their accessibility to transgender students and staff.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy
- Customized Course Review Rubrics: How to Take the Quality of Your Online Courses to the Next Level
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- Learn who to involve in the planning, how to decide on the questions included, and the steps to creating a course review rubric that makes sense for your online programs.
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- Campus Safety, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Changes to the Clery Act Handbook: How to Stay Compliant with New Requirements
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- A comprehensive review of the new Clery requirements and how to comply with them. Find out what's changed, how these changes will affect the data you report—and the way you report it.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How to Design and Facilitate Online Discussions that Improve Student Learning and Engagement
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- Learn several design and facilitation ideas to help you create a better learning experience for your students. You'll see examples of online discussion activities, including student posts and instructor feedback to those posts as well as an assessment rubric template you can use to evaluate the quality of your online discussions and help you adapt what you learn in this webinar to your own online courses.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
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- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Classroom: Strategies to Overcome Student Resistance and Increase Student Engagement
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- Explore strategies you can use to create a successful flipped learning experience for you and your students. Find out how to identify the reasons that some students resist the flipped classroom model and how you can address those challenges to increase the likelihood that they will come to class prepared.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
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- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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- Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Universal Design for Learning: How to Improve Satisfaction and Retention for Students at All Learning Levels
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- You'll learn how UDL helps improve the interactions you have with students and how those improvements can increase student retention, persistence, and satisfaction across all kinds of learners.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- Advanced Online Seminar: Transgender Students and Creating a Safe, Inclusive, and Legally Compliant Environment
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- You'll learn about the legal rights of transgender students and what your college or university must do to be in compliance. You'll learn what policies and procedures should be reviewed and, if necessary, revised to include specific protection for transgender students.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
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- Large classes are an unpleasant fact of life on many college campuses. The challenge of teaching hundreds of students at a time in a single, lecture-style setting can be daunting. This online seminar, presented by Dr. Anthony Sweat of Brigham Young University, will reveal practical techniques for reaching your pedagogical goals in large classes.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Building Strategies for Competency-Based Learning
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- Learn an influential new approach to higher education from a veteran of federal education policy making. Discover sound arguments to help you gain support of resistant staff and step-by-step strategies that will equip you to start, administer, and teach a CBL degree program.
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- Faculty, Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy
- How to Observe and Evaluate Online Teaching
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
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- Discover simple strategies you can use every day, whether online or in the classroom, to ensure exams are not simply perceived as grade-generating mechanisms but instead recognized as enriched learning tools that will have a significant impact on student success.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Creating a Campus Culture of Acceptance for Online Education
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- Discover easy-to-implement strategies to help you gain support of even the most resistant faculty and capitalize on the boom in online education.
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- Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Online Learning through Instructional Design
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- This seminar provides you with the tools to seamlessly transition from face-to-face courses to an online learning format.
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- Faculty, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Course Design and Preparation, Teaching Strategies
- Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Discover a fresh look at how you can help students sharpen their writing and function at a higher level of competence in an online community of learners.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Accommodating Faculty Mental Health Conditions under the ADA
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
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- Learn strategies to help you achieve performance targets while also restoring student engagement through a variety of practical, actionable teaching techniques.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
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- Gain important insights into the ways you can create a classroom environment and a pedagogical approach that are responsive to the needs of all students and that contribute to an environment of mutual esteem and respect.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn why there is an increased danger of attrition in online courses and how to address this in four key areas: course design, instructor presence, personal attention, and connectedness to the institution.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Motivate, Engage, and Inspire: Tips for Teaching Modern Learners
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- Identify the teaching methods that work best for modern learners, including several strategies to better engage and motivate your Millennial students. You'll learn the five new Rs: Research, rationale, relaxed, rapport, and research-based methods. Delve in-depth into each R and why each one is critical to helping your modern students succeed.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Risk Management
- Title IX Essentials: Distinguishing Consent
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- Become a more effective advocate, prevent sexual assault on your campus, learn how to distinguish consent, and treat all involved parties fairly as you investigate and adjudicate sexual assault complaints on your campus.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore a variety of flipped and active learning strategies they can use in class to allow students to apply, analyze, and evaluate course content.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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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
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- 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
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- 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, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain a variety of strategies to create discussion board activities that your students find interesting and also strategies to effectively facilitate discussions and manage the workload related to reading and grading posts.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- You'll view and analyze effective and ineffective examples of Socratic questioning, so you can continue to support student learning through useful questioning techniques and avoid questions that stifle student inquiry and thinking.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management
- Title IX Essentials: The Future of Title IX
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- The new federal administration likely will shift Title IX enforcement. But the spirit and mission of Title IX, to reduce or eliminate barriers to education caused by sex discrimination persists. Join Peter Lake for this dynamic presentation, and explore what changes we have we already seen under the new administration and what changes are likely to come.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management
- Title IX Essentials: How to Conduct a Prompt, Thorough, and Equitable Investigation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Using case-study examples, you'll learn strategies for taking complaints, interviewing witnesses, performing investigations, and writing reports. Find out how to ask the right questions and gather the information you'll need to come to the most appropriate resolution for everyone involved.
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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
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- 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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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Discover what the research has documented about the extent of academic entitlement. Is it associated with certain personality characteristics? Does it result from approaches taken to parenting? Are the attitudes cultivated in earlier educational experiences? Is there widespread agreement as to what it looks like when college students are acting and sounding entitled?
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn to be more mindful of how to critically access information. You will gain a toolbox of skills to apply to your own information use as well as that of your students.
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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
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- 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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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy
- Simple Strategies to Grow Online Courses and Programs
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This comprehensive presentation will walk you through a variety of strategies, topics, and concepts that will help your institution enhance the quality of online courses and programs and ensure continued success.
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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
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- 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
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- 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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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management
- A New Era in Title IX Enforcement: Understanding the Latest Changes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Stay current on the national developments and trends in Title IX compliance, enforcement, and litigation. This program will be of particular importance in light of the sweeping changes taking place to Title IX enforcement under the Trump administration and the new leadership of OCR.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Building a Tougher Student: Applying the Research on Intellectual Development
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore how the way students think and learn has changed, as well as two research-based models and a set of strategies for using these models to build resilience and enhance critical thinking in your classroom.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Support
- Students and Social Media: How Much is Too Much?
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar will provide evidence-based, best practices and related information and insights that can be used immediately to respond more effectively and efficiently to the needs of students who are experiencing emotional and mental health challenges due to their extensive involvement with social media.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Participants will learn a series of low-risk, very easy to implement strategies, tips, and tools that they can implement to make their lectures more student-centered and engaging in order to promote higher level learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $147.00 – $347.00
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- Examine the value of interdisciplinary thinking to solve learning challenges, discover how to apply creative approaches to your course outcomes and assessments, and discover new excitement for teaching and collaborating within your discipline.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- The Role of the Strategic Plan in Building Faculty Development Programs
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn the steps for creating an effective and dynamic strategic plan, ways of using the strategic plan to build institutional support for faculty development programs, and methods for using the strategic plan to communicate with outside stakeholders.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching to the Core: Ensuring the Success of Professional-Track Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn how to set students up for success by employing alternative lessons, using a blended and supportive curriculum, and teaching students individually. You'll review core competencies required by CODA/ACEN and explore strategies for assisting students with different learning challenges.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Specific Student Populations
- Three Secrets to Building Diverse and Inclusive Online Learning Environments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn how to apply culturally responsive teaching strategies to the online environment. The strategies presented have been proven effective for diverse populations and also benefit the online learning community and student outcomes in a positive way.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Four Common Teaching Traps and How to Avoid Them
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn how to identify each of the four most common teaching problems, explore their implications, and understand warning signs and solution. Discover how to recognize misalignment, expert blind spot, content overload, and over-identification.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- What are Microaggressions and What Can I Do About Them?
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar offers an understanding of microaggressions in the classroom, strategies to take when they occur, and suggestions on how to create a classroom climate that limits them.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Collaborative Learning Approaches that Support Neurodiverse Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore practical strategies to plan group tasks so that our neurodiverse learners can successfully contribute to collaborative learning activities.
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- Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Strategies and Tactics for Institutionalizing Open Educational Resources
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Developing and implementing a strategic initiative to institutionalize the use of open educational resources (OER) does not have to be a daunting task, but can be tackled and accomplished through a series of no/low cost and easy-to-implement strategic initiatives.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching About Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in Secular Studies Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn to create classroom environments that promote academic discussions of faith as a form of personal identity, diversity, belief, motivation, culture-community, privilege, and oppression.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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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
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- 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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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Effective Diversity and Inclusion Strategies
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar will provide a high-level overview on effective strategies to institute organizational culture shifts.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Building Professionalism in Professional-track Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- In this seminar, you will be able to identify what professionalism is and present various methods for teaching and evaluating professionalism on campus and in the clinical environment.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Understanding and Educating Generation Z Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- You'll explore the beliefs and perspectives of the Generation Z population and how these beliefs and perspectives affect them as college students. Specifically, this seminar addresses how Generation Z students differ from other generations.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Planning by the Calendar
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Careful course planning minimizes stress and improves learning by reducing the chances of content crush and panic often experienced at the end of the term. Learn how to take a more holistic view of your courses by shifting your mindset beyond content to consider course rhythms and the natural ebbs and flows of student motivation.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Build International Student Success with Intercultural Awareness
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Examine the three primary worldviews and cultural dimensions and increase your intercultural savvy. This increased awareness will help you teach in ways that better include and support culturally diverse students to improve your teaching effectiveness and further your students' success.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar offers a glimpse into how Wikipedia can empower students to share their knowledge with the world around them. Through real-life strategies and helpful background information, this seminar shows you how to use a tool you already understand in a new way to increase student engagement, boost critical thinking, and improve information literacy.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Talking about Student Evaluation Results: What to Say and How to Say It
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore ways to communicate about rating results using three scenarios based on common situations, with the goal of making the exchange a constructive conversation about teaching and learning.
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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
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- 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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- Campus Safety, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management
- Fostering Resilience in Assault Survivors
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain a better understanding of how victim trauma can inhibit the engagement of a person in any institutional process (including learning), how to better assist victims in regaining a sense of normalcy after an assault, and appropriate methods of fostering resilience in survivors of assault.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Increase student motivation, produce higher-quality student work, and encourage student responsibility and academic integrity, all while making assessment less stressful for students and simplifying the grading process for themselves.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Discover concrete practices you can use right away to communicate expectations clearly for student ethical conduct, which are much more effective than spending time trying to catch cheaters after the fact.
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- Campus Safety, Faculty, Leadership, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- From Cross Examination to Safe Harbors: A New Day in Title IX Compliance
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This seminar explores updates to Title IX under the Trump administration and keeps participants informed about what they need to know as Title IX continues to take shape.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management
- Identifying and Eliminating Common Administrative Barriers for Transgender Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- In this seminar, participants will learn about the variety of administrative barriers facing transgender students at colleges and universities across the country. Examples of some barriers that will be discussed include the following: obtaining name changes on ID cards and administrative forms, navigating various online systems that retain and re-populate student demographic information, ensuring the correct and inclusive use of names and pronouns in the classroom, and accessing comprehensive and inclusive campus healthcare options.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Student Technology Skills: Expectations vs. Reality
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Recent studies show that Digital Natives might not have the proficiency for technology that older generations have long assumed they do, and that we're overestimating the technical skills of the young adults we teach. To make things worse, the related skill sets that students are being taught in their courses with us are not the kinds of skills that their future employers most value.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement
- Online Engagement and Assimilation Strategies For Nontraditional and Marginalized Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn how to increase support for marginalized students taking online courses. The strategies and discussions presented will support diverse populations and increase positive learning outcomes in online environments.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 7 Things to Consider Before Developing an Online Course
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn how to allow for adequate time to develop a course, explore avenues to find course content, prioritize the content students need to learn, create an instructor participation plan, determine what course assessments will be used, estimate the overall workload associated with developing and teaching an online course, and use existing faculty support services available to help with course design and planning.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Using peer assessment, self-assessment, creative coursework design, grading rubrics, and technology, educators can offer meaningful feedback and effective grading approaches in large-section classes. Join us to discover ideas that you will be able to incorporate almost immediately from an educator who has successfully used this approach.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Generation Z (born from 1995-2010) is now in college and they've brought a unique set of values and interests with them. If you're challenged by—or even just curious about—understanding the drive and motivation of the young students in your classes, this online seminar will provide research-based context, understanding, and practical tactics that can be implemented in any classroom.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Reaching Neurodiverse Students: Course Creation Strategies
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Discover that neurodiverse differences often are not openly declared and might be hard to recognize in individuals in a classroom of students. Explore the common barriers to learning experienced by neurodiverse students and learn strategies to build content and environments that support breaking down those barriers and improving learning for all students.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Strategies for Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration in Large Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Explore essential topics including strategies for building a cohesive online learning community, increasing faculty online presence, and getting students actively engaged in learning. This presentation will also address technology for online communication, collaboration, and engagement.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Energize Your Lectures to Help Students Meaningfully Engage with Your Subject
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Gain insight into your possible teaching blind spots, learn the power of using concrete examples to help students grasp abstract concepts, explore the wide variety of example types that can be used in teaching, and learn the most effective pacing of examples in a course.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Foster Creative and Critical Thinking Through Intrinsic Motivation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Grit, self-efficacy, and growth mindset are desirable and aspirational traits for students to have and will make the difference between learning at low-level Bloom's Taxonomy vs. truly engaging in and understanding course content, but how does a professor create the motivation it takes for students to achieve this? This online seminar is for any educator struggling with creating such paths to critical and creative thinking.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Time Management for Faculty and Students in Flipped Learning Environments
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Announcing an all-new Magna Online Seminar that will help you with time management before your course starts and as you teach. We'll also give advice to help students work smarter (not harder) when they shift learning new material to the pre-class space. Lastly, we'll cover how to use time wisely during the class meeting in order to tap into the maximum benefits of active learning.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Moving Beyond Data Collection to Meaningful Quality Assurance and Curriculum Improvement: The Future of Curriculum Mapping
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Curriculum mapping (tracking the achievement of program outcomes to the course) is often required at institutions for quality assurance and curriculum improvement. It is a concept that was fairly new in 2010 (Wolfs first MOS) and is now widely accepted. However, many institutions are stuck at data collection and haven't been able to aggregate the data from a course level up to a program level, and even better, include data from other divisions of the institution.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- What happens during the first week of class sets the tone for the entire term and can affect retention and student success. For students to work well together in classes, a degree of trust must exist between them, and building this trust quickly is key. Learn about the concept of swift trust, which comes from business but applies to education as well.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Facilitating Success: A Guide to Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Understand the prevalence of unrecognized trauma in the general population and in the educational setting, learn to identify common characteristics of trauma, be able to recognize how maladaptive behaviors serve as coping skills in trauma survivors, learn the six principles for creating a trauma-informed classroom, and strategies to evolve the learning environment and avoid re-traumatization.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- For faculty who struggle with engaging content delivery, How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate, is a Magna Online Seminar that gives specific, practical steps to add enthusiasm and excitement to lectures and presentations.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 7 Indispensable Strategies to Build Community in Your Online Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Students in online courses and degree programs sometimes report that studying online can leave them feeling isolated and unconnected to their instructor and student peers. However, this doesn't have to be the case. Online instructors can utilize a variety of strategies to build and maintain a sense of community in their online courses and doing so will result in a better course experience for both student and instructor.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learning outcomes and objectives are the first step in backwards design. As such they hold the primary spot in the course development process. Faculty engaged in course or program development who are ill-equipped to design meaningful and measurable outcomes face the prospect of a poorly designed course and less than meaningful learning experiences for students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Preparing Students for Thoughtful, Ethical Decision Making
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This online seminar addresses ways faculty can provide students with skills to identify and contend with ethical matters in specific disciplines and professions, civic life, and as part of the educational process (including academic integrity and interpersonal interactions). We will also discuss ethical considerations for instructors—particularly those new to the profession—around dilemmas they often encounter, including grading, recommendation letters, and boundaries in interactions with students.
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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
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- 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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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This Magna Online Seminar presents a framework of expert-level teaching practices, all backed by the science of how our brains learn. Adopting three elements of a constructivist teaching approach can help to make learners more active, curious, and engaged, all while reducing your workload as an instructor.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Learning That Sticks: Strategies to Shift to Student-Centered Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- You have the basics of teaching well in hand. Your students are successful. You feel comfortable with your content knowledge and teaching methods. So why would you change anything? This Magna Online Seminar invites you to peek behind the classroom doors and LMS screen of college and university instructors who win national teaching awards to find out what they do that is so different.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Discover how changing instruction from using traditional text to adding graphic novel(s) can open communication with different student groups and also develop skills, such as visual literacy, in all students.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Applying Andragogy to Online Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Success
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Naturally, adults and children learn in different ways. However, this truism does not necessarily translate when learners transition from secondary to postsecondary educational settings. It's even more elusive in online learning environments, as students are not immediately visible to their instructors.
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- Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Program Evaluation and Assessment, Online Program Strategy
- Online Program Design Strategies to Increase Program Graduation Rates
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Online enrollments are on the rise, even as overall enrollments decline. As an increasingly diverse student body flocks online to meet their educational goals, online completion rates are not yet on par with face-to-face classrooms and are more problematic for students outside of the historically traditional student demographic.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Course Design Strategies to Increase Student Completion Rates
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Online enrollments are on the rise, even as overall enrollments decline. As an increasingly diverse student body flocks online to meet their educational goals, online completion rates are not yet on par with traditional classrooms and are more problematic for students outside of the once-traditional student demographic.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- In recent years, lectures as a pedagogical approach have come under considerable fire. Critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, are often leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. Still, there is another type of lecture that has tried and true benefits: the interactive lecture.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- 8 Small Teaching Strategies that Deliver Big Results to Engage Online Students and Improve Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Online courses present unique challenges for both students and faculty. Small teaching can be the answer to those problems. Small online teaching strategies are minor adjustments to class design and teaching, things that are feasible in terms of the minimum amount of time required and that create little to no grading burden.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- This Magna Online Seminar is perfect for those of you who are just a little lost, a little confused, or really want a glimpse of course planning with a real-life instructional designer. This seminar will focus on the prep work that happens before the syllabus is given to students.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Teaching Strategies
- Practical Ways to Support First-Generation College Students in the College Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- In this seminar, you will learn about the challenges that exist for first-generation college students and the support structures that can help them succeed.
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- Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Title IX Clery and VAWA
- Title IX Procedures: Reviewing the Final Regulation and What Your Institution Needs to Do to Comply
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- With anticipated announced changes to Title IX regulations and requirements in early 2020, you'll get an overview of the new changes issued by the U.S. Department of Education from a tenured expert in this field and learn how these changes will impact your institution and what you need to do to comply to this final regulation.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
- Understanding Negative and Toxic Leadership and How to Overcome It
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- For leaders and aspiring leaders who want to grow in their position and help others do the same, this live online seminar examines the negative or toxic attributes of leadership and will help you avoid these traits through a lens of what not to do.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Underprepared Students to Take Control of Their Learning by Developing Metacognitive Skills
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Metacognition has been strongly linked with improved GPAs, college readiness, and retention; however, faculty are often unaware of how to purposefully instill and foster these abilities in students. This seminar will provide specific strategies to build these necessary competencies.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Understanding Open Educational Resources (OER): A Powerful Solution for Both Faculty and Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- In this online seminar, we'll examine the research on Open Educational Resources (OER) usage in collegiate classes and their impact on student retention and success.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
- Designing Learning Spaces for Optimal Student Engagement
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- In this online seminar, we will discuss some of the principles that should be considered when designing learning spaces and share some examples of learning spaces that have been used to not only increase collaboration and engagement in the classroom but prepare students for similar work environments when they graduate.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Institutional Culture, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Risk Management, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- Hidden Disabilities: Navigating the Need for Disability Support on Campus
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Cognitive disabilities are often hidden—if not disclosed by the student, then an educator may not be aware of the barriers to learning that exist. This online seminar addresses some of the most common eligible accommodations to assist students with disabilities and how to use these accommodations in the classroom.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- For educators teaching large-session classes who are interested in implementing mastery learning but feel restricted by the instructor/student ratio, this online seminar offers strategies to implement mastery learning assessments in large enrollment classes.
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Using Humor to Engage Students in the Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- For teaching professors who are faced with student apathy or lack of engagement, this online seminar provides a strategy based on humor that not only increases student engagement, but also contributes to students' improved recall, comprehension, and satisfaction.
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- Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Student Support
- The 10 Myths of Social Justice
- $99.00
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- Making things right is important. On a college campus, there's no better place to start than the Student Affairs department. As the focus of some of our most important discussions regarding social justice, SA is where we need to begin to paint a true picture of the concept. We'll help bring clarity to social justice discussions on your campus and help you assess your own institution in terms of cultural competence and community-building.
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- Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- 10 Skills to Increase Your Community’s Diversity Competence
- $99.00
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- When it comes to diversity, even the most well-intentioned people can make the biggest mistakes. In this seminar, highly-acclaimed diversity trainer and author Maura Cullen, PhD, introduces you to the 10 core concepts that will ultimately increase diversity skills and competency.
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- Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars, Student Support
- How to Facilitate Social Justice Exercises and Programs
- $99.00
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- More and more student affairs professionals today are being asked to facilitate training sessions on social justice-related issues due to growing interest in the areas of diversity and inclusion. This facilitation can be challenging, given the sensitive nature of the topic and how quickly this field is evolving. Our experienced trainers provide you with a broader understanding of how to create and facilitate successful workshops.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Support
- Reframing Resistance to Achieve Cultural Change
- $99.00
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- Resistance doesnt have to derail your work. You can learn to reframe the resistance you encounter and use it to fuel your efforts. By shifting your perspective and embracing resistance as part of the change process, it can become a tool instead of an obstacle to your goals. Learn how to harness the power of resistance from two national change-management experts with this seminar.
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- On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation, Student Support
- How to Help Students Build Resiliency & Overcome Their Obstacles
- $99.00
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- Every year, residential life staff and student affairs counselors see an increasing number of students enter college with some type of psychological problem or mental illness. They are presented with reams of data and survey results highlighting the increased risk and problems this generation of students has to face when going to school.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Support
- 7 Counseling Skills All Student Affairs Professionals Need
- $99.00
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- College is stressful for any student. Those with mental health concerns are even more susceptible to dropping out. Learn how to recognize when a student is struggling with mental illness and how to make an effective referral to mental health counseling. As a result, you'll help students stay in school and graduate.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, old-archived, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- State Authorization: Strategies for Online Providers
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- New regulations will have a significant impact on institutions delivering online programming and distance education outside their home states. This seminar covers what your institution needs to do to facilitate the adoption of a national reciprocity model for online education.
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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
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- 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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Program Strategy
- Blended Learning Toolkit: Design, Deliver, Assess
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Determine the opportunities for online learning in your classes and outline a methodology for developing them.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Competency-Based Education at Community Colleges
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn more about what Competency-Based Education (CBE) is, what it can do for you and your students, and how to implement it at your institution.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Academic Restructuring: Guidelines for Academic Leaders
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Restructuring in every form is hitting institutions all over the country. Smooth transitions are achievable when using proven, well-defined steps. We reveal a practical planning process focused on success, as well as minimizing conflict, attrition, and developing positive new cultures.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Recruiting a Racially Diverse, Culturally Competent Faculty
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Faculty members possessing multicultural competence are best able to teach, advise, and mentor school populations with increased racial diversity. We deliver clear-cut strategies you can use to increase the racial diversity of final applicant pools as you approach the crucial task of hiring new faculty members.
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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- How to Evaluate the Impact of Faculty Development Programs
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations, Student Engagement, Student Support
- From Rucksack to Backpack: Ensuring Student Veteran Success
- $99.00
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- The transition from deployment to college life can pose a significant challenge for student veterans. While service members have many assets-maturity, leadership experience, and sound commitment—they also often carry visible and invisible disabilities, such as post traumatic stress disorder. Learn how to ease the transition and leverage the strengths of veterans in your classroom in this seminar.
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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- Faculty Evaluation and Review: Guidelines for Getting it Right
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- 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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- Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders, Strategic Planning
- Leading Change: A Framework for Department Chairs
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Colleges and universities are confronting the need to change. That makes this the perfect time to implement innovations to improve your department, help students succeed, and promote the public good. Learn a conceptual approach that will help you stop reacting to change—and start leading it.
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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
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- This seminar employs several exercises and demonstrations so that you can see how motivational interviewing works.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- 10 Ways to Engage Your Students on the First Day of Class
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- If you want to create a first-class learning environment start with the first class. From the very first day—from the moment students walk in the door—you set the tone for the entire semester. You can establish expectations, clarify responsibilities, energize, and engage your students, and create a strong framework for success. We provide you with practical, proven tips for starting your classes off right.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Service-Learning Course Design: What Faculty Need to Know
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Faculty members who enrich their teaching with service-learning explore the connections between their disciplines and the critical questions facing local and global society. Creating an effective and meaningful service-learning course requires careful planning and logistical know-how. You get an insightful explanation of the workings of a successful service-learning course.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Classroom Management 102: Working with Difficult Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Do the faculty members at your school know how to respond effectively when confronted by uncooperative or even aggressive students? Find out how to successfully manage the full-range of student behavior problems. We use role play scenarios of problematic classroom behaviors to share strategies for responding effectively.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- What to Teach When There Isn’t Time to Teach Everything
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Get advice on what to include, and what you can safely disregard, as you write your syllabi and plan your busy semesters.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Strategic Planning
- Connect Learning Across Courses with Curriculum Mapping
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- More and more schools are turning to curriculum mapping. Curriculum maps can enhance your programming and engage your faculty while standing up to increased oversight of by accrediting agencies, funders, students, and employers. We help you get started with curriculum maps and help you improve the overall educational program at your school.
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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
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- 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
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- 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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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- 9 Ways to Use Class Discussion to Promote Transformation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Students can't overcome bad habits they don't know they have. We'll show you how to establish a climate of trust in which students can learn to recognize blind spots, gaps, and contradictions in the way they think. We also share techniques to enhance classroom discussion and make it a vehicle for active learning and intellectual development.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Five Strategies to Engage Today’s Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Whether they're called Generation Y, Millennial learners or NextGen learners, today's students bring unique perceptions and preferences to campuses and classrooms across the country. Learn research-based insights on the key traits of today's students to help you create more effective teaching and learning experiences through enhanced student engagement.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Managing Student Discipline Issues Legally and Effectively
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Whether you're concerned about cheating or legal rights and responsibilities, a proactive approach helps stop problems before they start. We show you how preparation makes the difference in classroom management.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Specific Student Populations
- Tools and Techniques for Improving Course Accessibility
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Research suggests that at-risk learners often benefit from reading—as well as listening to—lectures and presentations. The technology already exists. We show you various activities to help you understand the benefits and applications of transcription technology.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Diversity is the name of the game in higher education today, but facilitating a genuinely multicultural classroom requires more than a fresh set of labels. Learn the four key points of entry into multicultural course design. You will be guided through a framework for creating and sustaining an inclusive classroom.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Active Learning That Works: What Students Think
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- From the teacher's point of view, active learning should be a powerful instructional tool, but what do the students really think about it? Are they actually learning what you intend when you use these teaching strategies in the college classroom? This unique seminar will gives you the student perspective.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Handling Annoying, Disruptive and Dangerous Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Annoying, disruptive, and dangerous students pose problems to even the best classroom managers. Yet you don't have to merely tolerate problem students. There are things you can do to manage student behavior and improve the learning environment in your classroom no matter who is on the roster.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- A Good Start: Helping First-year Students Acclimate to College
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Many first-year students arrive at college unprepared. It's not that they aren't smart or motivated. Instead, they experience a gap between the academic culture in high school and the culture of the university. These students arrive on campus thinking they are ready when no one has told them the rules have changed. This online seminar gives you the tools and techniques to help new students thrive during their first semester and throughout the rest of their college career.
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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
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- 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, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Lecture Alternatives: Four Strategies to Engage Students
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- If you're growing tired of lecturing, imagine how your students feel. Your students would probably welcome a change of pace as much as you would. The challenge, of course, is making a change for the better. Learn what other educators are doing to add variety and incorporate active-learning strategies into their courses in this Magna Online Seminar.
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- Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Considering the Courage and Practice of Teaching
- $30.00
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- 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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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- The Flipped Approach to a Learner-Centered Class
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn the skills needed to become more learner-centered and flip your classroom.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Motivating Students: From Apathetic to Inspired
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn ways to tweak your course design and instructional methodology to better engage students and foster accountability. You will explore evidence-based strategies that will help you create a learning environment that increases student motivation, interest, and success. You will finish with the information and tools that you need to connect with—and maybe even inspire—modern learners.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Universal Design: Five Steps to Make Your Course Accessible
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Accessibility is not just about disability. It is about increasing learning for all students. Ultimately, it is about student success. Most instructors can improve access to their curricula simply by examining their assumptions and making slight modifications to methods and practices. Learn how in this online seminar.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- Assessment Strategies for the Flipped Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Flipped classes are popular because they can be very effective learning environments. Instructors using flipped lessons must be careful to plan and structure the environment to support student learning. It is critical to integrate and relate the learning outcomes, activities, and assessment strategies to ensure that pre-class work supports the in-class work. This seminar gives you assessment strategies.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- How the Brain Learns: Implications for Teaching and Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Recent neuroscience findings shed new light on the external and internal factors that affect acquiring, processing, and learning new knowledge. Two leaders in the field of metacognition (knowing about knowing) will review what science now tells us about the learning process and share concrete classroom strategies and methods that are informed by that science.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- 10 Strategies for Enhancing Learning in Introductory Courses
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Introductory courses form the foundation of a college education, but students don't like taking them, faculty don't like teaching them, and student achievement and attendance are notoriously low. In this seminar, you'll learn about practical tools you can use to transform these courses from an educational chore to a pathway to student success.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement, Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies that Work
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- More students are arriving on campus without the tools they need to succeed in college. Learn strategies to help get unprepared students better aligned with the demands of college and embrace accountability and personal responsibility.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do About It
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Discover what you need to do to reframe your attitudes about and revise your approach to academic dishonesty in this seminar.
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- Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Helping Introverts Thrive in an Active Learning Classroom
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn a developmental approach to active learning that will help you create a comfortable environment for introverts and extroverts alike.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Six Practical Strategies to Improve Your Online Course
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- A half-dozen research-based, easy-to-implement practices to keep your students more engaged, more successful in their learning, and more satisfied with their online classroom experience.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Design and Preparation
- The Flipped Approach to Online Teaching and Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn how to flip your online courses by analyzing models for the flipped class and exploring how to expand and adapt these definitions to include online learning environments.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Student Engagement
- Leverage Social Media to Fuel Student Engagement & Learning
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Learn techniques to use social media strategically and intelligently in your classroom. Incorporating social media into your courses can forge stronger connections with your students, foster mastery of course content, and develop social media skills that will help graduates transition into the workplace.
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- Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Team-Based Learning: Strategies for Getting Started
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- Team-Based Learning, or TBL, helps students develop a deep and enduring understanding of course content. Using these methods, you'll be able to move beyond covering content to helping students use course concepts to solve interesting, significant problems.
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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
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- 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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- Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Beyond Course Design: Planning for Successful Facilitation
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- The curriculum for your online course is finished, but a strong curriculum is only half of the equation. To be successful in online education, you must also pay attention to the manner in which your course is facilitated. We introduce you to Assessing Online Facilitation (AOF) and the carefully-researched structure that makes it such a valuable self assessment and peer evaluation tool.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Online Group Work: Making It Meaningful and Manageable
- $297.00 – $497.00
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- With the increasing popularity of online courses, instructors need to have clear, effective methods of creating, implementing, and grading group projects. Change the perception and the results with this seminar.
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- Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Course Design and Preparation
- Data Driven Decision Making for Online Instructional Design
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- Despite all its promise, online education faces serious obstacles. High drop-out rates and an increasingly skeptical Congress have caused many to question the effectiveness of online education—a disturbing trend in times of tight budgets. This seminar introduces you to the latest methods for leveraging analytics in the instructional design process and ultimately improve your courses.
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- Five Ways to Improve Interaction in Your Online Courses
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- There are ways to effectively adapt your teaching content to the various communication channels available. No matter where you are at on the online teaching spectrum this seminar will supply you with the tools you need to take the next steps toward mastery and effectiveness. This seminar shows you specifically how to add your personality, and engage and interact with students.
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- A Guide to Video Communication for Online Instructors
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- If you're an online educator, creating online video content is no longer an option. It's a virtual requirement in today's online environment, where students expect your curriculum to keep pace with new technologies. Unfortunately, even if faculty would love to make their students happy, most educators don't understand how to create online video, and budget shortfalls are limiting training opportunities. Learn all about video creation from inception to viewing and discover simple ways to effectively create and deliver online video content.
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- Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Magna Commons, On-Demand Seminars
- Best Practices for Designing Successful Blended Courses
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- Building effective learning experiences for increasingly diverse learners while facing financial constraints is one of the most important challenges higher education faces today. Blended instruction can help, but it takes work to fuse the worlds of face-to-face and online instruction. Veronica Diaz, associate director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, shows you how to make the best of both worlds.
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- Engage Online Students with Targeted Feedback
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- Learn the tools and strategies that will help you establish and maintain a respectful and fruitful feedback loop with your students. Discover how to add effective and constructive two-way communication channels to your online courses from dynamic, online communicator Jill Schiefelbein.
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- Efficient and Effective Feedback in the Online Classroom
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- Effective feedback is a critical component of the learning process for online students. It serves an important role in keeping them motivated and engaged. Learn a set of strategies for reducing feedbacks burden while maintaining the high quality that contributes so much to students growth and learning.
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