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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Teaching Strategies Help Engage All Learners Online?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation, Personal Development
- How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
- How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Online Student Engagement
- How Can I Guide Online Learning By Engaging with Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
- How Can Universities Empower Adult Learners?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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