MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: 20-Minute Mentors
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
How Can Screencasted Feedback Enhance Student Comprehension?
- $19.00 – $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?
- $19.00 – $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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- 20-Minute Mentors, COVID-19 Resource, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
What Teaching Strategies Help Engage All Learners Online?
- $19.00 – $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, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
How Can Online Instructors Make Themselves More Visible to Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- This program relates approximately ten small, simple strategies instructors can use to make themselves more visible to students in their online courses, thus creating a virtual classroom of more engaged, involved, and successful students.
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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?
- $19.00 – $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?
- $19.00 – $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?
- $19.00 – $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?
- $19.00 – $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?
- $19.00 – $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?
- $19.00 – $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?
- $19.00 – $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, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty
How Do I Master Mastery Grading?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Standards-based grading and specifications grading are forms of mastery grading, which is an alternative to traditional percentage or points-based grading scales. This program provides specific instruction about the relationship between backward design and mastery grading, while leading to how to implement mastery grading into your course.
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