Category: 20-Minute Mentors
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How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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What are the Communication ‘Musts’ in an Online Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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 Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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 Should I Manage Conflict Within My Department?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can Screencasted Feedback Enhance Student Comprehension?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can I Cost-Effectively Use Virtual Reality to Enhance Instruction?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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What Teaching Strategies Help Engage All Learners Online?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program will present five practical strategies to level up online teaching so that instructors experience greater satisfaction in their work and create more rewarding learning experiences for their students.
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How Can I Guide Online Learning By Engaging with Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Gain practical approaches for engaging with online students, fostering connections between students, and for students to better relate to your content.
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How Can Universities Empower Adult Learners?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- 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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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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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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