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Category: 20-Minute Mentors

- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Faculty, Magna All Access, Specific Student Populations
- What are 3 Keys to Teaching Intercultural Competence?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This 20-minute program is designed to teach participants three keys to intercultural competency so that students have a strong foundation of intercultural communication that extends far beyond the classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What Strategies Can I Apply to Address Serious Online Faculty Performance Concerns?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn about focusing on individuals and context to personalize your efforts while maintaining consistent standards and expectations: what kinds of performance concerns are common to online teaching and why they need to be repaired, how to identify serious lapses in performance that may not appear on performance management reports, and how to work with challenging faculty.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Address Minor Online Faculty Performance Concerns with Coaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this 20-minute session, the focus is on minor performance concerns that can be corrected through coaching. Learn how to differentiate between minor performance concerns that could benefit from coaching and those that require more formal performance management.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Learn to build community with online faculty as an essential component of performance management, effective ways to set the tone for both leading and managing online faculty, how to communicate clearly and consistently to keep faculty informed, and how to employ strategies for regular coaching outreach efforts to work with online faculty on a variety of teaching performance areas.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- In this mentor, come away with expert strategies from a world-renowned teaching and learning specialist that will move your students toward becoming effective learners, allowing them to pursue understanding, learn from failures, and continue learning for life.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Create a Faculty Development Program that is Engaging and Effective?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Through this 20-minute program, you will gain new ideas, perspectives, and strategies based on current literature that improve the effectiveness of your faculty development programs, your teachers, and your institution.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
- How Can the Three C’s of Course Design Enhance Students’ Online Performance?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This informative program offers several concrete methods for increasing student engagement in the online classroom. It's unique in that it focuses on three key elements of effective online course design. By considering consistency, creativity, and community, you'll be better able to engage your online students and promote student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- Why Should I Migrate from Traditional Resources to OER in My Courses?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program looks at the implementation of OER from the perspectives of students, faculty, and institutions, and the reasons why faculty and institutions should consider adopting and using OER in place of traditional learning resources.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Will OER Benefit the 21st Century Student?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program offers an introduction to OER, including the impact and wide range of OER resources available and how to integrate these materials into course curriculum while staying compliant with Creative Commons licensing requirements.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Magna All Access
- How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- By viewing student feedback through alternative lenses, faculty and administrators are able to better understand and manage mismatched definitions of rigor. Careful consideration of student feedback can lead to instructional and policy changes that facilitate closer alignment of expectations regarding rigor, assessment, and learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- When it comes to gatekeeper courses, there are often cases where expectations and reality don't match, and fears, rumors, and beliefs about hard courses and programs discourage students and limit enrollment. By creating student buy-in and ensuring students understand that you have their best interests at heart, you can help increase their satisfaction with their college experience and influence them to move along in their academic program, resulting in positive outcomes for students, teachers, and institutions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Magna All Access
- How Can I Manage the Disconnect Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Rigor to Increase Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- You can't dispel students misperceptions about difficult coursework if you're unaware of what these misperceptions are. This program discusses common mismatched definitions of rigor and strategies for bridging the divide between teacher definitions and student definitions. By leveraging these strategies, you'll be better able to improve students motivation and build stronger classroom connections.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What is Gamification and How Can it Promote a Growth Mindset?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gamification uses gaming elements and mechanics in a nongame context—and it's really simple to implement if you know where to start.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program explains what you need to do to gamify more courses and ensure students persist even through failure. You'll be exposed to several effective gamification strategies and examples of each. You'll also explore how these strategies can foster student persistence and engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- When gamifying your courses, it's vital that you measure the effectiveness of gamification and identify which aspects keep students most engaged. At times, you might have to make small changes. At other times, you might have to stop gamifying and reevaluate. This program will help you find the right fit for your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- What are Five Tips for Creating Videos that Promote Knowledge and Expand My Reach?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Academic knowledge rarely permeates into mainstream society, much less the media. To get publicity, more grant and funding opportunities, and to effectively disseminate knowledge, instructors must understand how video plays a major role. This program discusses five strategies you can use to create videos that reach more people and answer common problems.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
- How Can I Repurpose My Content into Videos That Get Viewed (and Shared)?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Often teachers and researchers work tirelessly to make an impact through video, but its reach is typically limited to the classroom or institution. In the information age, knowledge is power. This program provides proven methods for creating impactful video content that gets viewed and shared by a broader audience.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can Livestreaming Bring New Life to My Teaching?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Livestreaming can reenergize teaching, research, projects, departments and units, and institutions. Younger generations especially crave the raw, authentic viewpoints that livestreaming provides, and all audiences like the behind-the-scenes and insider access that going live enables.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- What are the Key Components of the Online Instructor Onboarding Process?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- To ensure faculty have a seamless transition into their online role, your institution needs to have a proper onboarding process in place that introduces instructors to the unique aspects of the online classroom. This program provides best practices for onboarding online faculty and ensuring online programs run smoothly and successfully.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Making sure students are taught by quality faculty—often adjunct instructors—is key to retention and brand success. This program contains proven strategies that can be used to attract and retain the best adjunct instructors for online courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access
- Copyright Crash Course: How Can I Stay on the Right Side of the Law?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- This program not only teaches the core concepts of copyright law, but its also useful in a train-the-trainer sense—it is designed to give you the ideas and tools you need to be able to be a copyright ninja in an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
- How Can I Effectively Review Online Courses and Programs for Quality?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- You'll be walked through the various options available for quality reviews, the reasons why more institutions are conducting these reviews, and how they are successfully coordinating them.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Create a positive and unique classroom environment in which students are more connected to your content through these concrete strategies for applying pop culture to your course.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can I Build Community in My Online Classes?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Discover effective, easy-to-implement techniques to help instill in your online students the cooperation, trust, respect, and enthusiasm that are hallmarks of strong learning communities.
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