Category: 20-Minute Mentors
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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
How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Leadership, Magna All Access
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty
How Do I Go Beyond the Basics of Universal Design for Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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, Leadership, Magna All Access
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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, Online Course Design and Preparation
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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