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Flower Darby is an associate director of the Teaching Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She celebrates and promotes effective teaching in all class modes to include, welcome, and support all students. Having taught in higher education for more than 26 years in English, technology, leadership, dance, and Pilates, Darby enjoys applying learning science across the disciplines and helping others do the same. She’s the author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes (2019). Her new book project is on emotion science and teaching with technology.
Last Updated: 2-02-2023
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- Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Online Student Engagement
Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Emotions are strongly linked to how we pay attention, focus, engage, remember, and learn. This online seminar will present practical strategies for putting the power of emotions to work in online classes to help capture and hold students’ attention, better engage students in their learning, and ultimately help them persist and succeed.
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- Leadership, Leadership, On-Demand Seminars
Leading Change and Effective Communication: Quick Response to the Threat of Coronavirus to Support a Campus Community
- $39.00 – $299.00
- As COVID-19 spreads across the nation, every college and university will need a plan to respond. This online seminar will explore the approaches for preparing for the various impacts that most institutions share.
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- Leadership, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar helps individuals understand more about the positive and negative sides of leadership by comparing and contrasting two types of leadership: servant leadership and toxic leadership. By knowing how to identify both servant leadership and toxic leadership actions, behaviors, and concepts, participants will be able to advance their understanding of leadership and their own leadership practice.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Have you ever had difficulty getting students to complete required readings? Is it a challenge to get them to think more critically about the content? This Magna Online Seminar will introduce four methods for increasing your students’ engagement with course readings. Each method will be explored in detail, and all materials will be supplied for you to use these activities with your own classes.
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- Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
- $39.00 – $299.00
- This online seminar is designed for educators who are interested in learning about how they can teach their students despite the presence of trauma. Participants will acquire strategies they can use to help students continue their learning in the middle of this pandemic.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
- $39.00 – $799.00
- A tenured Universal Design for Learning (UDL) expert will discuss assessment alternatives based on UDL framework that are acceptable even in cases where instructors do not believe they have flexibility to change assessments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Engaged and motivated faculty directly impact student success. This is why effective faculty development is essential! This program details a unique perspective on how to design and deliver programming for faculty success using social learning theory, where faculty are able to interact and learn directly from their peers.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this program, Ann Taylor, PhD, assistant dean for distance learning and director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University, shares her personal Top 10 pieces of advice that she's received while working in higher-education leadership for the past two decades, illustrating each with a story of its influence.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can Universities Increase Employee Engagement in an Era of Increased Workforce Competition?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor details the concept of employee engagement, gives insight into what an engaged higher education workplace looks like, and shares successful strategies for engaging faculty and staff.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Institutional Culture, Leadership
How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor provides direction to use the five Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation, and Compliance, to lead your institution toward enhancing campus-wide buy-in and improving collaborations with all stakeholders.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are the most common tools for measuring instructor effectiveness. However, there is a large and growing literature documenting some of the major problems with SETs. These findings have motivated a national conversation about measurement of instructor effectiveness and the meaningfulness of statistical data collected from student evaluations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Leadership, Magna All Access, Personal and Professional Development for Academic Leaders
How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Pure Heart Leadership is a leadership approach, blending the psychology theories of Car Rogers, Albert Bandura, and Abraham Maslow, that encourages an authentic leadership while recognizing the individuality and strengths of leaders. This 20-Minute Mentor provides you with everything you need to know about this unique approach to leadership, led by the expert who developed this method.
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