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Category: 20-Minute Mentors

- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Set Time Management Priorities in Online Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can I Enhance the Impact of Feedback in Online Classes?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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
- How Can I Make My Exams More about Learning, Less about Grades?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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
- What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
- What Learning Activities Help Student Veterans Succeed?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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 Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
- How Do I Include Introverts in Class Discussions?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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
- What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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
- How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Online Student Engagement
- How Do I Set Students up for Success in Online Courses?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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
- How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Classroom Management, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What are the Communication ‘Musts’ in an Online Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Is Blended Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Get More Students to Participate in Class?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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 and show how to get students to participate in class.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Should I Manage Conflict Within My Department?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can Screencasted Feedback Enhance Student Comprehension?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Cost-Effectively Use Virtual Reality to Enhance Instruction?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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