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Category: 20-Minute Mentors

20-Minute Mentors

20-Minute Mentors are video-based programs designed to answer a specific question related to teaching and learning.

They deliver actionable insights in highly focused 20-minute presentations designed to fit busy schedules.

- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Disruptive Innovation Impact STEM Education?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty and teachers, especially in STEM fields, who are looking to shift their teaching mindset from sustaining technologies to disruptive technologies, this 20-Minute Mentor will provide you with expert-guidance on how teaching disruptive technology in a STEM course can help students think more critically.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Discussion Responses Give Narrative Shape to an Online Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online teachers who are looking to create a more useful and engaging discussion board that ties to course content, this 20-Minute Mentor provides practical strategies to manage the discussion board and use it to frame course content.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online instructors or teachers who want to maximize learning without significantly adding to instructor workload, this 20-Minute Mentor details how comprehensive communication, grounded in pedagogy, can enhance learning even through simple tools such as course announcements.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty working online who have not considered using the discussion board beyond its basic function and are trying to avoid lifeless discussion boards that fail to engage students, this 20-Minute Mentor provides three areas for faculty to improve: engagement, community, and expertise, and specific strategies for doing so.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online educators who want to assist students in effective note-taking in order to best succeed in learning content, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for educators to guide student note-taking specifically in the online classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For remote and online teachers who want to assess learning to keep students on track, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many ideas specific to online and remote teaching for activities, assignments, and assessments that gauge learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For educators who are new to teaching remote, synchronous classes and realize students are easily bored or distracted, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for engaging students immediately with games, activities, or polls.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and don’t see student engagement on the discussion boards, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable advice on creating questions that promote critical thinking and generate meaningful discussion.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For online instructors who are creating a new online course or converting their face to face course to an online course, this 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and are struggling with time management, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to plan and prioritize for the instructional activities that have the greatest impact on student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty teaching online, especially in a remote content delivery method who are struggling to find a meaningful way to hold office hours without overly scheduling themselves, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical advice that instructors can follow immediately to design, schedule, and facilitate online office hours to maximize students’ use.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in Online Courses
- What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty teaching online courses who are interested in incorporating easy-to-use technology to enhance student learning, this 20-Minute Mentor describes five technologies, and includes the appropriate application and benefits of each, to create a personalized, interactive, impactful, and engaging learning experience
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For instructors who are new to teaching online who need guidance in creating a learning-centered online classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Engaged and motivated faculty directly impact student success. This is why effective faculty development is essential! This program details a unique perspective on how to design and deliver programming for faculty success using social learning theory, where faculty are able to interact and learn directly from their peers.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this program, Ann Taylor, PhD, assistant dean for distance learning and director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University, shares her personal Top 10 pieces of advice that she's received while working in higher-education leadership for the past two decades, illustrating each with a story of its influence.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Universities Increase Employee Engagement in an Era of Increased Workforce Competition?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor details the concept of employee engagement, gives insight into what an engaged higher education workplace looks like, and shares successful strategies for engaging faculty and staff.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership
- How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor provides direction to use the five Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation, and Compliance, to lead your institution toward enhancing campus-wide buy-in and improving collaborations with all stakeholders.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are the most common tools for measuring instructor effectiveness. However, there is a large and growing literature documenting some of the major problems with SETs. These findings have motivated a national conversation about measurement of instructor effectiveness and the meaningfulness of statistical data collected from student evaluations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Pure Heart Leadership is a leadership approach, blending the psychology theories of Car Rogers, Albert Bandura, and Abraham Maslow, that encourages an authentic leadership while recognizing the individuality and strengths of leaders. This 20-Minute Mentor provides you with everything you need to know about this unique approach to leadership, led by the expert who developed this method.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
- How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this 20-Minute Mentor, you will learn how to develop your own personal users' guide, which is an explanation of how to successfully work with you. This guide allows you to create a direct method for effective communication and the ability to share key information about what helps you to be an effective professional.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- What does equity look like in the online classroom? This session will explore what it means to teach equitably and identifies five equitable practices that you can incorporate into your online courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access
- Social Justice on Campus: 5 Key Concepts
- $49.00
- In this program, you'll learn five key concepts that will give you tools to enhance conversations in your organizations, on your campus, and in your communities. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access
- Navigating Team Conflicts: Recognizing Your Triggers
- $49.00
- In this session, student leaders will identify their hot buttons and begin to understand why they feel triggered in certain conflict situations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Student Engagement
- What Do Students Expect from Online Courses?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Asking the right questions can be just as important as getting the right answers. This is particularly important when it comes to designing for the online student. Learn how you can create a better online course experience. This pointed and practical session will show you how to meet online students desires without sacrificing your standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Technology to Create Custom Automated Feedback?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- High-quality, individualized feedback is essential for effective online teaching. Learn how to use feedback banks, feedback technology, and automated feedback to improve your online comments to students. In the process, you'll also improve your students' experience with online teaching, increasing their learning, motivation, and satisfaction.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Faculty need efficient instruction practices when teaching online. Learn proven time management practices for your online courses. As a result, you will do a better job of providing feedback and achieving instructional priorities without spending all of your time in front of the computer.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Enhance the Impact of Feedback in Online Classes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Feedback is a key element in the learning process. Discover multiple feedback strategies that can grab students' attention, help them learn from their mistakes, and upgrade your online feedback, making it more specific, timely, and effective.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make My Exams More about Learning, Less about Grades?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn how you can transform exams into enhanced opportunities for student learning with practical solutions to the three core problems with exams today. Making exams better suit your learning goals requires student participation at every step of the process. Your presenter, Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., shares real-world, tested guidelines for integrating student input.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- You know how essential it is for students to be active participants in their education. But how do you grade them on it? In this program, you'll learn an overview of what not to do when grading participation, activities worth doing, how to do them, and how to evaluate your own process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Is Your Syllabus Sending the Wrong Message?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Your syllabus and classroom policies set the tone for your class, but they may not be creating a welcoming learning environment. Learn tips designed to help you use classroom policies to support student engagement and a smooth-running classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Can I Help Student Veterans Transition to Campus?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Adapting to life on campus can be difficult for student veterans. Learn practical tips on how you can support student veterans in their return to civilian life. These techniques include incorporating service-learning and team activities to draw on student veterans strengths and reduce their social isolation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Accommodate Student Veterans with Disabilities?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Veterans returning to higher education face cognitive and physical challenges. Discover effective responses to the learning needs of today's disabled student veterans and understand the impact of acquired disabilities on learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- What Learning Activities Help Student Veterans Succeed?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn practical techniques you can implement immediately to help student veterans succeed. Techniques include understanding the differences between military and academic decision making, as well as how to teach student veterans how to reflect and write for an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Design Courses to Enhance Student Veterans’ Success?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Military service is a formidable educational experience. Learn how to use course design to help student veterans make the most of it. In the process, you'll also learn how to enhance learning for all students. This program covers situational factors, assessment, and learning activities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Should I Encourage Experiential Learning During Class? How?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Lectures are not effective for all students. Help all your students make the most of their education by adding experiential learning to your instructional toolkit. Find out how you can bring this high-impact educational practice into your classroom and increase student engagement in learning with this 20 Minute Mentor.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Develop a High-Impact Capstone Course?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Capstone courses help students synthesize their college education before they embark on professional careers or graduate studies. This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to construct a capstone course for specific learning outcomes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Teaching critical reflection skills in STEM courses helps develop professionals who can think, analyze, reason, solve problems creatively, and communicate. While some may be hesitant about teaching these skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses, thats where students and society can reap multiple benefits from critical reflection. Learn how to incorporate these skills in your STEM courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Improve Lessons with a 4-step Plan?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Lesson planning is a complex process that can take hours and hours of your time. You need to answer the question, What are my students going to learn today? Mary Clement, EdD, has mastered the lesson planning process and developed a four-step plan that simplifies how you plan and creates even stronger, more engaging lessons.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Include Introverts in Class Discussions?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Introverted students can find themselves at a disadvantage in the contemporary college classroom. Learn effective teaching strategies to engage introverted students in class discussions and how to guide them beyond their comfort zones.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Developing a clear understanding of where you want your course to go and what your students will learn is essential for faculty. By articulating your pedagogical goals, you will clarify your practices and take both your teaching and your students to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make My Multiple Choice Tests More Effective?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to make your multiple choice tests more effective by creating a test blueprint and formulating test questions that go beyond memorization to evaluate thinking skills. Testing is more than a responsibility for faculty members. It's an opportunity to assess the progress you and your students have made toward your learning objectives. Multiple choice tests aren't about playing the odds—instead, they can help you make the most of your chances to connect with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Rubrics help you develop a better grading system, one that delivers fair results, helps students learn, and makes effective use of your time. In this program, you will get examples of the three basic formats for rubrics and explore seven key recommendations developed to help you transform the grading process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Create Meaningful Assignments for My Students?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Assignments are where students get to practice, engage with course content, demonstrate their growing mastery, and alert you to problems. Learn 16 research-based strategies proven to support student learning and how to apply several of these techniques when designing your course assignments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make My Exams More Accessible?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Considering accessibility when designing exams provides you with a more accurate assessment of student learning and bring your assignments into closer alignment with learning objectives. Exams created with accessibility in mind can help you improve your assessment of student learning for all students, whether or not they have a disability.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Backward Design Make My Courses More Accessible?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Backward design is an effective tool in supporting accessibility. Focusing on what you want students to get out of your course, through backward design, will help you develop creative and accessible assignments that help all students, whether or not they have a disability. Why struggle to remove barriers to learning when you can get things right the first time with backward design?
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Students dealing with physical, cognitive, and other barriers to learning might not be able to participate fully in some activities because of their challenges. This fast and focused session will show you a practical approach to making accommodations and promoting equitable opportunity for learning and engagement for all your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Make My Course Content More Accessible?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn the drawbacks inherent in the most common ways of presenting course content and specific techniques for making material more accessible. After watching, you will be able to enhance student learning, help students better prepare for class, and promote student success with assignments and assessments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Improve My PowerPoint Presentation Skills?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Poorly designed PowerPoint presentations distract and detract from your teaching. The proven presentation techniques you'll learn in this program will help you improve your classroom teaching and enhance student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Effectively Teach Unprepared Students?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn principles and practices you can implement immediately to provide learning opportunities for unprepared students and motivate them to become engaged learners. This program takes a broad-spectrum approach, addressing motivation, responsibility, and communication practices and provides tested techniques to address these key issues.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Build Community in My Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Community is an essential ingredient in the educational experience. Studies show that community building can increase retention, improve students cognitive intellectual development, and promote contributions to society. Find out why it's important for you to know how to create community.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Do I Prepare a SoTL Article for Publication?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- This program covers tips to help you publish a SoTL article including how to design a new SoTL project, prepare a SoTL manuscript, and avoid the pitfalls that lead to rejection of SoTL articles. It will guide you from topic selection to contacting editors regarding publishing possibilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Set Students up for Success in Online Courses?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Beginnings matter, whether you're teaching students face-to-face or online. Find out how you can make the most of online course introductions. In this fast and focused session, you'll discover how you can transform course introductions from ho-hum exercises in housekeeping into time-saving, inspirational new beginnings.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Focused, energizing classroom discussions that involve everyone are what higher education instructors dream of. Too bad they don't just happen. But you can learn the careful planning and structuring it takes to make them happen. We show you how to structure and plan classroom discussions to maximize student engagement, student participation, and learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Use Frequent Student Feedback to Improve My Courses?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- If you are only asking for feedback at the end of the semester, there's not much you can do to improve the learning for your current students. That is why it's important to get student feedback early in the semester—and multiple times throughout—to understand your students and meet their learning needs. We share the five times in the semester when getting student feedback is valuable and provides practical ways to obtain that information.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Incorporate a Group Poster Session into my Class?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to successfully implement group poster sessions into your classroom. Get the tools and information you need to incorporate this impactful learning tool into your classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Enhance Class Using Story, Popular Media and Objects?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Committed educators are always looking for dynamic ways to grab and hold their students attention, but we do more than list in-class activities. This practical and focused session is grounded in learning theory, such as idea-based, brain-based and situated learning, to give you a framework for ongoing exploration and innovation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Icebreakers to Connect with Students?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- You know teaching and learning are more effective when students are motivated. One of the keys to motivating students is finding out what makes them tick, and the sooner you can do that, the better. Learn how you can use class openings to forge connections with college students through introductory surveys, icebreakers, and more.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Connect Students’ Interests to Course Content?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- When students see a clear link between their concerns and your course content, teaching and learning improve. The trick is establishing those connections. Alice Cassidy, PhD, shows you how to get students to make a personal investment in their learning—no matter how large or small your class may be.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Capture Students’ Interest in the First 5 Minutes?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- We show you how to make the most of that first meeting with your students. Teaching and learning depend on building and sustaining student interest and strong course openings get it all started. You learn to draft your own enthusiasm statement to use in your own courses to draw students into the subject matter.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Stay Calm When Students Push My Buttons?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- College students behavior can be rude, arrogant, and insulting at times. This timely and targeted session will help you develop reasonable responses to students with unreasonable behavior. You will be able to keep your cool and handle any situation with a level head.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Address Teasing and Bullying Behavior in the Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Bullying and teasing takes many forms, but none of them are acceptable in higher education classrooms. Brian Van Brunt, EdD, an experienced educator and counselor, shares a resolutely practical approach, developed to help you confront the issue of bullying or teasing in your classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, old-archived
- What Do I Need to Know About Referring Students for Help?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Sooner or later, whether it's a student falling dangerously behind, exhibiting disturbing behavior, or something completely different, you're bound to encounter students who need more than you can give them. Recent campus tragedies highlight the crucial importance of skilled referrals. Learn how in this program.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What are the Communication ‘Musts’ in an Online Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Establishing effective communication in online classes can be challenging. We show you how to use technology to create an effective online learning environment. You will learn five essential steps to enhance your online communication.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Get Started With the Virtual Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Teaching online requires shifts in your approach. We give you the instructional and logistical perspectives to succeed in the virtual classroom. Starting with a clarification of terms, you'll see how the synchronous environment of the online classroom lends itself to using other media to draw students in.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Do I Choose Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Activities?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to define, describe, and decide between synchronous activities and asynchronous online activities. Emphasizing learning objectives over technology, we walk you through a decision-making process based on what you want students to learn and helps you find the most effective way for them to process it.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Convert a F2F Course to a Hybrid Course?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- We cover the process of online course conversion, from initial course review to working with technology. Learn a step-by-step approach to maximizing the educational benefits of blended learning—in a minimal amount of time make the most of what you're already doing and learn to use technology to enhance student engagement and learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Objects and Analogies Improve My Teaching?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Whether you teach physics or philosophy, you're probably looking for innovative ways to increase student engagement with your course material. Encouraging students to make new connections is essential in higher education, and we show you what students think about just that.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Informal Writing as Part of a Low-stakes Grading Strategy?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Informal writing assignments can be part of your strategy of frequent, low-stakes (FLS) grading. This approach incorporates many informal, low-pressure writing assignments that keep students engaged in the course materials and continually improving. Find out how informal writing assignments can create a dialogue between the students and instructor, boost student confidence, and increase student motivation.
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- How Can I Use Low-stakes Quizzing to Enhance Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- A frequent, low-stakes FLS grading strategy, when used correctly, can decrease your workload while increasing student motivation and confidence. As an added benefit, it helps ensure students arrive to class prepared and ready to learn. The idea behind FLS is simple: you give many grades with lower weights. Learn how this technique can benefit your classroom in this 20-Minute Mentor.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Three Things Could I Do to Improve My Blended Course?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Effective blended course design requires faculty to reconsider their role in learning. It calls for rethinking your approach to students, teaching, technology, and your colleagues. Whether you are new to blended learning or a seasoned pro, this program will take your course to the next level by exploring three avenues you can focus on for improvement.
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- In Blended Courses, What Should Students Do Online?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- For instructors interested in exploring blended learning, deciding which course elements to teach face-to-face and which to address through online technology can be a major stumbling block. Learn a framework for making those essential educational judgment calls. Be confident that your selection of which materials to present online and which to present in the classroom will provide the best learning experience for your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should I Manage My Online Course?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Managing the workload of an online course can be more challenging than managing a face-to-face course. We walk you through an online instructor checklist created at Penn State University. When you have completed it, you will have created an instructors course manual that will help you stay organized, manage your workload, and keep your students working toward the learning goals.
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- What Is Blended Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Blended learning, which combines face-to-face classroom instruction with supervised online activities, is one of the hottest topics in higher education today. Blended learning is here to stay. Learn how to take advantage of online technology to better your students learning experience and improve your instruction. Find out how you can fuse the best of traditional techniques and cutting-edge online technology.
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- I’m Teaching Online Next Term. What Do I Have to Know?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- If you're teaching your first online class next semester, and you're completely confident you know exactly what to do…then you're probably the first. If, on the other hand, you have more questions than answers, this program is tailor-made for you. We provide you with a 12-step framework for online teaching success.
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- What Should I Do When a Student Challenges My Authority?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Students can challenge your authority in all sorts of ways. Some are overt (is he actually snoring?!), and some are not (that gentle pitter-pat you hear is most likely not rain on the roof…it's texting). This content-rich program examines effective and appropriate responses when students cross the line.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Help Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Developing critical thinking skills is the real business of higher education—teaching students to analyze and dissect every idea, ruminate about it, and arrive at thoughtful, informed opinions. This fast, focused program will show you how to incorporate active learning components into every aspect of your courses, from lectures to labs, from writing assignments to tests.
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- What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Gain useful strategies that will help improve student retention and give every student a better chance at success. Learn some powerful tools and techniques for continuously improving student retention at your institution.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Transform My Tests into Learning Tools?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Tests and other assessments are effective tools for determining how well students learned (and how well you taught) earlier in the semester. But they don't really do much to help students learn in the present, or as the semester progresses. This fast, focused program will provide you with an assortment of tools and techniques to promote better learning.
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- What Are the Three Worst Mistakes to Make in the Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- This fast, focused presentation zeroes in on a trio of potential higher education teaching pitfalls—one involving how you teach, one what you teach, and one whom you teach. You'll come away with ideas you can use right away to avoid problems and create a positive, productive learning environment.
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- How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Trying to teach students to improve their writing can be like trying to teach cats to fetch: Demonstrate all you want, encourage all you want, implore all you want—you're apt to be met with nothing but blinks. We share seven novel feedback techniques that will motivate your students and drive real improvement in their writing.
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- How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- We've all encountered toxic learning environments—apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. Keeping the classroom climate positive is the responsibility of both sides. Learn valuable concepts you can put to work right away in every class.
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- How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- All faculty members have students who cheat in their classrooms. Should our primary response to classroom cheating be prevention, punishment, or indifference? With 11 pages of supplemental material, we explain how a developmental approach can ensure that all your students stay on the track to ethical academic success.
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- How Can I Promote Deep Learning through Critical Reflection?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Without deep learning, your students can come away from courses with misunderstandings and oversimplified views of complex issues. Learn how the process of critical reflection is a reliable way to deepen the learning experience.
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- Can Service-Learning Work in My Discipline?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Many educators believe that service-learning can be a valuable practice…for other educators. But they're sometimes at a loss to understand how it can be incorporated into their own disciplines. In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, we show you what service-learning can add to your courses and provide concrete implementation strategies.
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- What if a Student Asks a Question I Can’t Answer?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn how to respond to even the toughest questions that students pose with confidence and credibility. We help you develop a reliable strategy for fielding students questions without losing your cool or undermining your credibility.
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- What Can I Learn From Student Ratings?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- While student ratings are dismissed by some educators for having little to offer, these ratings can in fact be highly beneficial to teachers who want to improve their skills. Students can provide helpful and legitimate feedback on what they feel they learned, workload levels, and observable behaviors that include the teacher's pace, volume, clarity, and organization. We show you how to read student ratings to help make you a better teacher.
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- What Can I Do About Feeling Tired, Stressed, and Burned Out?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- There is the growing stack of papers to grade, the lectures to prepare for, and the endless drafts of scholarships for publication. No wonder many faculty members today struggle with burnout and excessive stress. We describe valuable approaches for recognizing and addressing faculty burnout and stress.
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- Should I Take Attendance?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Trying to make a decision about taking attendance can quickly generate more questions than answers. We discuss how to make effective attendance decisions that do not result in creating a negative perception of you as a teacher. Explore giving students a reason to come to class rather than forcing them to attend and learn different techniques for taking attendance that won't be viewed negatively by students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- Learner-Centered Teaching – Where Should I Start?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- With learner-centered teaching, students take more responsibility for their learning. It's an approach that focuses a teacher's attention on what students are doing and deals with learning processes explicitly. We share three strategies to demonstrate approaches that can benefit students and teachers.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should I Respond to Wrong (or Not Very Good) Answers?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- The stakes are high when an instructor responds to a student answer that is wrong or just not very good. What a teacher says to a student will influence future class participation and discussions. To increase the chances of student participation, it helps to have a repertoire of strategies to employ. We introduce you to 13 possible strategies and responses that you can use when a student has provided an answer that is wrong or not very good.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Should I Handle Pushy Parents?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Parents worry. Some are concerned about their children's relationships, academic stand, or living arrangements. And some parents bring their concerns to bear when speaking with faculty members…sometimes at the top of their lungs. So what should you do? We suggest that you see this type of situation as a teachable moment for the parent.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Even though many faculty members routinely spell out course requirements in syllabi and give announcements and reminders, students continue to come to class unprepared. We provide several dynamic strategies that you can use to help students learn the value of reading.
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- How Do I Get More Students to Participate in Class?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- A limited number of students make the majority of contributions in your classroom today. Although getting more students to participate is challenging, the good news is that it can be done, and it doesn't have to involve such tactics as cold calling on students or resorting to a points system. We describe 18 strategies that work.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Create Engaging Threaded Discussion Questions?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- A properly crafted question can engage students' interest, foster ideas and contributions from other students, and, in little time, help transform what may have been an uninspired or flat classroom into a hotbed of learning in which the ideas and comments of one student are quickly built on by another.
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- How Do I Assign Students to Groups?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Despite the widespread acceptance and demonstrated success of group learning, many teachers do not know how to create small groups effectively. Learn key factors involved in successfully facilitating group learning and the benefits of group work.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Voice Feedback to Improve Student Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Save time and significantly improve student outcomes by using Voice Feedback. Research shows that students value and are far more likely to incorporate voice feedback in completing their assignments than written feedback. We explain the benefits of using voice feedback and walk you through the process of how to incorporate this approach into your teaching.
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- How Can I Learn Student Names?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- We help you understand the benefits of learning and using students' names and present specific techniques to help.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Create a Successful Faculty Mentoring Program?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn principles, practices, and resources you need to create a successful mentoring program to welcome new faculty members and set them up for success. Explore the different sides of six essential decisions underlying development of an effective program.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Monday Morning Mentor
- How Should I Manage Conflict Within My Department?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- This presentation focuses on how building relationships and clarifying leadership roles can limit the development of disagreements and set the stage for successful resolution when conflicts do arise. Learn how to take a proactive approach to behavior that is less than collegial.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Monday Morning Mentor
- How Should I Coach an Underperforming Colleague?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In higher education, supervisors are also colleagues, which makes dealing with faculty who aren't meeting expectations particularly challenging. Get guidance on handling poor performance. You'll learn how to understand what causes poor performance and concentrate your energy where you can do some good.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Intelligent agents are automated notifications within learning management systems that can be scheduled to run automatically or manually to track activity within a course. Intelligent agents can be used in a multitude of roles, whether it be as a digital teaching assistant, a digital tutor, or a digital secretary.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Tools embedded in most learning management systems can simplify faculty workload while intentionally engaging students in course content. One such tool is conditional release, which releases online course material contingent upon a student meeting a particular condition or reaching a predetermined criterion.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can Screencasted Feedback Enhance Student Comprehension?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- It's proven that feedback is one of the most important influences on improving performance and student learning. Screencasting provides faculty a simple, efficient, and effective way to provide personal feedback, which allows the student to better understand the nuances of the comments and the points the instructor is communicating.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Cost-Effectively Use Virtual Reality to Enhance Instruction?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Virtual reality is an effective enhancement to classroom instruction that brings experiences to students beyond the lecture or textbook. Many teachers assume the equipment to view virtual reality content is expensive, however, there are dozens of free educational apps, containing hundreds of virtual reality videos that can be viewed through an ordinary cell phone and low-priced Google Cardboard viewers.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Teaching Strategies Help Engage All Learners Online?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Perception is critical to online learning. Not only that, online learning is difficult to navigate if students don't understand online learning basics. This difficulty is compounded when acculturative stress is present. Ensuring inclusivity and a sense of community is often much more difficult to do in the online setting, as face-to-face interaction is limited.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Online Instructors Make Themselves More Visible to Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- The most common complaint students have about online courses is that they felt their instructor wasnt there. In other words, they felt their instructor was missing, they felt left on their own with no content expert, and that they were expected to just figure it all out for themselves. What students enrolled in online courses really want is a visible instructor-one who is present, engaged, active, and is consistently facilitating the course.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- One common misperception students have regarding online courses is that these courses are easier, less time consuming, and less rigorous than traditional face-to-face courses. This can lead to a major disconnect between expectations and outcome.
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- How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- About 60-70% of faculty believe that teaching online courses is more work intensive than teaching face-to-face courses. Factors include course preparation before teaching, managing sometimes unwieldy online discussions, and even fielding student questions around the clock.
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- How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Authentic assessment can be difficult when you are faced with a vastly diverse audience of students. How can we best meet their needs when each of their learning styles, skills, and passions widely vary? The answer to this challenge may live within the concept of choice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Sometimes, faculty don't have the support of an instructional designer to help plan their courses. In fact, many faculty never have any help from an instructional designer whatsoever. So, where do they start?
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Research shows that in order to be successful in online classes, students need to be able to manage their time, motivate themselves to work on schedule, and seek help when needed, among other executive functioning skills. One major online learning challenge occurs because many online students are still developing these life skills.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Many who teach online find it less satisfying than teaching in person. This may be due to the lack of in-person interactions or not physically being there for the aha moments your students create.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Guide Online Learning By Engaging with Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Despite the efforts of excellent online instructors, there's still a widespread misperception among faculty that online classes are like slow cookers: set and forget. However, neglecting interaction with online students eliminates the best chance of actually teaching them online, of guiding their learning, and helping them make new meaning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty
- How Do I Master Mastery Grading?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Standards-based grading and specifications grading are forms of mastery grading, which is an alternative to traditional percentage or points-based grading scales. This program provides specific instruction about the relationship between backward design and mastery grading, while leading to how to implement mastery grading into your course.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Specific Student Populations
- How Can Universities Empower Adult Learners?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In order to truly advance the careers and lives of adult learners, educators need to understand the importance of adult learners to universities, the complex lives of adult learners, and the appeal of online courses among this learner group. Not insignificant to this goal is the fact that many of these learners are now millennials with distinct learning preferences and life challenges.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Student engagement—especially in conversation and peer interaction—can be a big challenge for college educators. This program introduces four tried-and-true techniques to create a learning environment that is literally buzzing with student conversation.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- The benefits of a thoughtfully designed and learning-oriented post-exam review session is a win- win for both faculty and students. When post-exam review is implemented with concepts critical to student learning, students are given the opportunity for metacognition to identify both strengths and gaps in knowledge, explore content to apply classroom knowledge, and differentiate correct from incorrect thinking.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective in the classroom? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better teacher, this presentation shares teaching advice collected from outstanding research professors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- What things can teachers do to become more effective scholars? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better and more efficient researcher and writer, this presentation shares scholarship advice assembled from outstanding research professors.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Balancing teaching, scholarship, and citizenship responsibilities is challenging for college professors. What can teachers do to more effectively fulfill their citizenship responsibilities?
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Your syllabus is one of the first impressions your course will make on your students. Need an aha moment to punch up your syllabi? Learn how to transform them from long, boring and text-laden documents to something elegant and engaging that your students will want to read.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Backwards design is a straightforward process that provides value to both learners and instructors by creating alignment between objectives, class format, and examination questions. This method can assure student success by focusing on the outcomes first and ensuring that the course content aligns with those outcomes, while also creating a better process for instructors by allowing them to focus on their own content more efficiently.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Changing an educational format or program can be challenging for both instructors and students. Viewing classroom change through the Kubler-Ross change curve helps determine that stress and resistance can be managed through to experimentation and integration over time.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Build a Mindset for Assessment in an Academic Department?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Assessment is at the heart of effective teaching and student success. Assessment is regularly practiced in the classroom by faculty; yet moving assessment into a more formal, structured, and systematic department process may make faculty feel vulnerable.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Analyze Department Data and Move Towards Closing the Assessment Loop?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program explores the steps that should be considered once assessment data has been collected at the departmental level. These steps cover very practical implications and the planning tips provided help ensure this process is efficient, meaningful, and considered worthy of your faculty's time.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Faculty
- How Do I Go Beyond the Basics of Universal Design for Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- For faculty or course designers who are interested in creating an interaction-focused solution to universal design, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor that gives specific ideas that can be implemented on any campus.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Student Support
- How Can We Support Home-Schooled Students as They Transition to College?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor helps faculty and administrators understand and engage with homeschooled students to better serve this group and ensure their successful start in higher education.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Change is sweeping through higher education. Major strategic choices come from university leadership rather than deans and department chairs. The deans and department chairs represent the middle management where actual change must be implemented. This 20-Minute Mentor helps explicate the causes of these changes and the strategies to address the need for change.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This mentor is especially useful for anyone new to evaluating faculty, uncomfortable with confrontation or coaching difficulty conversations, or interested in redesigning the evaluation process or mechanism (form/tool) on their campus.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This Magna 20-Minute Mentor discusses core power skills which include: teamwork, communication, positive attitude, critical thinking, professionalism, and time management. You'll also learn a four phase approach to integrating soft-skill education into a curriculum and how to design related activities to unleash the full potential of your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program explains, through the lens of the literature, how the brain processes information, and identifies why microactivities are a great method of formative assessment to check in with your students learning and move information closer to long-term memory.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- The syllabus can not only help a student navigate the course content, but it also can become a substitute for first-day-of-class conversations, detail major assignments, and explain online-specific requirements such as technology required, netiquette, or recycled writing policies. Learn how to make an effective syllabus for online courses that will help you create a smoothly running class.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- What Technology and Tools Do I Need to Create a Podcast for My Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates that building a podcast is an easy process and an effective way to transparently communicate with students.
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- What Are the Basics of Podcasting?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Discover how to evaluate your content in the context of a podcast and determine if this is an appropriate tool for your content delivery. Gain an idea of the benefits to podcasting, both as a content delivery platform and a way for students to receive content in an efficient and convenient way.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- We can all use fresh ideas for engaging students with course content. What can the games we play teach us about designing our courses? Games have kept people engaged for decades because they have systematically designed engagement practices. In this program we will explore how to recognize these engagement practices and apply them into course design. Learn how to use the games that surround us to make our courses more powerful.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Increase Student Completion Rates in Online Learning?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In this program, learn how to adopt a systemic and practical approach to increase online completion rates in the context of declining overall enrollments, increasing student diversity, and rising educational costs. And, understand that instructors partnering with instructional designers in the context of institutional support is key to implementing the proposed framework elements.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Learn several design-based first-year supports, how to create opportunities in the facilitation of your courses to create and build classroom skills, and how to plan/implement evaluations to continue to support students in their educational journey. Designing with students in mind first helps you be purposeful in your approach to building their skills and meeting their needs.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Program Strategy
- How Can I Increase Faculty and Staff Buy-in For Online Programs?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This program is intended for academic leaders and online education program managers establishing an online education program or meeting resistance to a current online education program. How Can I Increase Faculty and Staff Buy-in For Online Programs? is a Magna 20-Minute Mentor that explains the contributors to resistance and provides actionable solutions that will help the viewer effectively lead change at the institution.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- Attrition rates are 10% to 20% higher in online courses than their face-to-face counterparts. While online course formats offer convenient methods of instruction, poor course development often leads to high attrition rates. This program explores how applying Media Richness Theory (MRT) and Social Presence Theory to online course design and instruction can aid overall program retention and student satisfaction.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Can High Quality Faculty Development Improve Online Course Quality?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- This mentor will cover the benefits of providing high quality professional development opportunities for faculty, what some of these opportunities (or programs) might look like, and ultimately how these opportunities can positively impact the overall quality of online programming.
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