Active Learning Microcredential

In a rapidly evolving world, the ability to engage students actively is not just a skill but a necessity for educators striving to make a meaningful impact. By harnessing these strategies, you can create immersive learning experiences that resonate with students, foster critical thinking, and prepare them for success in an ever-changing world.

The Active Learning Microcredential empowers faculty to master the art of active learning for today’s dynamic educational landscape. This 8-hour asynchronous Magna Online Course brings together a collection of expert educators to provide their successful active learning strategies that they’ve implemented in their own classroom.

This Magna Online Course is unique in its flexibility by adapting to your specific needs through a self-assessment tool that starts your journey. You’ll receive a recommended list of programs to complete to solve your biggest challenges. For those passionate about learning, you also have the option of completing as many of the programs you like. Upon completion of this Magna Online Course, you’ll not only gain proficiency of the essentials of active learning, but receive a digital badge verifying this gained skill.

This Magna Online Course Includes:

• A self-assessment tool to guide your learning to incorporate your specific needs
• Goal-Setting Guide
• Professional Growth Plan Worksheet
• Classroom Action Plan Worksheet
• Supplemental materials for each program within the course
• A digital badge upon completion

View Included Programs In This Magna Online Course

Learning Goals:

At the conclusion of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Make your course material meaningful and relatable to students
• Design and implement effective brain-based strategies to enhance learning outcomes
• Inspire enthusiasm and motivation among your students
• Better connect with students with techniques that relate to them through their interests and passions
• Develop questioning strategies that stimulate critical thinking and foster meaningful discussions

How Does This Magna Online Course Work?

• To earn the digital badge demonstrating your proficiency in active learning, view 5 or more of the 12 included programs.
• You may watch programs in any order.
• Each program includes a note-taking guide, supplemental materials, and a transcript to further your learning.
• To receive credit for a program, watch the entire program without refreshing or going to another page until the program is complete. (You may take breaks between programs.)
• The course comes with a self-assessment tool which takes your responses and provides you a custom learning path, focusing on your biggest needs.
• The course also comes with special additional resources such as a Classroom Action Plan, a Goal-Setting Guide, and a Professional Growth Plan to support you in implementing what you learned into your teaching.
• Once you have completed the requirements of the course, you will be able to request a digital badge which demonstrates your proficiency of the subject matter.

Who Will Benefit from This Course:

• Faculty teaching in any modality

Group Enrollment:

Discount pricing is available for multiple seats purchased at the same time.

For 10 or more seats, please contact Magna Sales at sales@magnapubs.com or call 800-433-0499 ext. 183 to receive a customized quote.

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Product Code: PQ23JA

Meet Your Presenters

Megwen Loveless, PhD
Senior Professor of Practice and Director, Tulane University

Sarah Lovern, PhD
Professor of Biology, Concordia University Wisconsin

James May, EdD
Professor, Valencia College

Nicki Monahan, MEd
Faculty Facilitator and Coach, George Brown College

Lolita Paff, PhD
Associate Professor of Business and Economics, Penn State Berks

Jill Purdy,
Department Chair and Professor of Teacher Education, Cedar Crest College

Julie Smith
Instructor, Webster University

Anthony Sweat, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

Juanita Wallace, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health and Exercise Science, Transylvania University

Maryellen Weimer, PhD
Professor Emerita, Penn State Berks

Kristin Ziska Strange
Associate Director of Faculty Development & Instructional Design, Tufts University