MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: 20-Minute Mentors

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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Evaluate Online Teaching If I Haven’t Taught Online?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn the difference between the design elements of a course and the instructional interactions done in the online classroom that count as teaching practices. Identify the five key online teaching behaviors from your Learning Management System.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Adapt an Online Faculty Peer Review Tool?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn an approach to distance education evaluation based on 50 years of research into the principles of effective teaching. This concise and content-rich video will show you the different evidence evaluators seek when reviewing good online teaching and the different techniques for reviewing online educators.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Design Academic Integrity into My Online Programs?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Identify academic-integrity tools and techniques that can be adapted to fit the specific needs of your program or institution-and learn the three-stage process for putting these policies and procedures into practice.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Do I Monitor and Support Online Faculty?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to communicate with faculty about expectations for their performance. Examine how the hiring, training, development, and evaluation of online faculty can come together in a holistic approach that reinforces these teaching competencies.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how evaluation can help you to improve students experience, identify your professional development needs, and prepare for formal performance reviews, including promotion and tenure committees.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Use Peer Mentoring to Improve Online Teaching?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Explore the features of a holistic approach that aligns the selection, training, support, and evaluation of online-teaching peer mentors. Learn about the considerations of working with adjunct and/or geographically remote faculty and how to address their particular concerns.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
How Can I Make Online Group Projects More Effective?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Examine the fundamental processes in collaborative learning. Learn methods for enhancing student satisfaction with online group work and see how to integrate current technology to enhance the effectiveness and ease of asynchronous collaboration.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Student Learning Begin Before the First Day of Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn to improve upon traditional first-day classroom activities and replace stilted introductions and syllabus review with active learning by utilizing distance learning tools.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Management, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Avoid Communication Misfires with Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn communication techniques to help you navigate difficult situations with students—such as missed assignments, poor attendance, or late work—while keeping their motivation strong and their attitude about your class positive.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is the Role of Communication In Teaching Excellence?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn prosocial, positive, encouraging ways to address students and spur their confidence. You'll identify both verbal and nonverbal communication cues to maximize the value of your interactions with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Communicate to Engage Students and Encourage Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to self-assess your communication skills in the instructional context to see what works best for you and your students—and pick up new techniques to broaden your abilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Save Time and Money by Repurposing Online Content?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This session will inspire you to look at your existing work in new ways. Seeing all the future uses of your online education materials will motivate you to take your course preparation work to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn the positive results—empowering students, motivating them, increasing their engagement, achieving better learning outcomes—that can be realized through strategic decisions you make about your grading policies.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Ethical Issues Lurk in My Grading Policy?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Assess your current grading practices to ensure they are grounded in fairness and objectivity. Learn about the checks and balances you can apply to your grading policies to ensure they conform to your ethical standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to assess most critical thinking skills using an assortment of methods, such as true/false, matching, multiple choice, and multiple true/false tests. Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
How Can I Create an Online Service Learning Project?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Discover ways for students to raise awareness about topics related to your class and get the community involved. Learn how to teach students about different types of communities and calls to action that generate results.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
Beyond the Discussion Board: How Can I Engage Online Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to overcome common challenges of discussion boards. Examine other options for engagement in your learning management system (LMS) and engaging students outside of the online classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn the merits of absolute grading versus grading on a curve, the pluses and minuses of letter-based and point-based grading, and whether—and how—to properly weight assignments across a semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Develop Online Instructor Presence?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn step-by-step guidelines for establishing an instructor presence in your online classes. Identify the things you want to share with your class and create a strategy for expressing your persona throughout the semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
How Can I Use Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Online?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to use the insights gained from using CATs to adjust future lessons and target your instruction to better meet the needs of your students. Gain skills you can apply in both online and traditional classrooms.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program identifies both general and discipline-specific critical thinking skills and how to turn these skills into good student learning outcomes. Learn to define critical thinking when designing or redesigning courses and identify the type of content conducive to practicing critical thinking.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Sometimes students get in their own way. They panic before exams and fill their heads with worries about failure. This program shows you how to help your students reframe the way they look at their exams and themselves. When they learn to love themselves a little more, they will fear exams a little less.
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