MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTOR
Category: 20-Minute Mentors

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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Assign Students to Groups?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Despite the widespread acceptance and demonstrated success of group learning, many teachers do not know how to create small groups effectively. Learn key factors involved in successfully facilitating group learning and the benefits of group work.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Voice Feedback to Improve Student Learning?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Save time and significantly improve student outcomes by using Voice Feedback. Research shows that students value and are far more likely to incorporate voice feedback in completing their assignments than written feedback. We explain the benefits of using voice feedback and walk you through the process of how to incorporate this approach into your teaching.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Personal Development
- How Can I Learn Student Names?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- We help you understand the benefits of learning and using students' names and present specific techniques to help.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons
- How Do I Create a Successful Faculty Mentoring Program?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Learn principles, practices, and resources you need to create a successful mentoring program to welcome new faculty members and set them up for success. Explore the different sides of six essential decisions underlying development of an effective program.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Monday Morning Mentor
- How Should I Manage Conflict Within My Department?
- $49.00 – $199.00
- 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 Support, Leadership, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Monday Morning Mentor
- How Should I Coach an Underperforming Colleague?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- In higher education, supervisors are also colleagues, which makes dealing with faculty who aren't meeting expectations particularly challenging. Get guidance on handling poor performance. You'll learn how to understand what causes poor performance and concentrate your energy where you can do some good.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Mentor Commons, Online Course Design and Preparation, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Mentor Commons, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Mentor Commons, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
- How Can Screencasted Feedback Enhance Student Comprehension?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Technology in Online Courses
- How Can I Cost-Effectively Use Virtual Reality to Enhance Instruction?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- What Teaching Strategies Help Engage All Learners Online?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- 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, Mentor Commons, Online Course Delivery and Instruction
- How Can Online Instructors Make Themselves More Visible to Students?
- $99.00 – $199.00
- The most common complaint students have about online courses is that they felt their instructor wasnt there. In other words, they felt their instructor was missing, they felt left on their own with no content expert, and that they were expected to just figure it all out for themselves. What students enrolled in online courses really want is a visible instructor-one who is present, engaged, active, and is consistently facilitating the course.
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