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  • How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
    • How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?

    • How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
    • How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?

    • How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • How Can I Build a Mindset for Assessment in an Academic Department?
    • How Can I Build a Mindset for Assessment in an Academic Department?

    • How Can I Build a Mindset for Assessment in an Academic Department?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • How Can I Analyze Department Data and Move Towards Closing the Assessment Loop?
    • How Can I Analyze Department Data and Move Towards Closing the Assessment Loop?

    • How Can I Analyze Department Data and Move Towards Closing the Assessment Loop?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
    • How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?

    • How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?
    • What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?

    • What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?
    • How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?

    • How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
  • How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?
    • How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?

    • How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • What Technology and Tools Do I Need to Create a Podcast for My Students?
  • What Are the Basics of Podcasting?
    • What Are the Basics of Podcasting?

    • What Are the Basics of Podcasting?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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  • What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
    • What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?

    • What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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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