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Linda B. Nilson is director emerita of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation (OTEI) at Clemson University. Before coming to Clemson University, she directed teaching centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Riverside and was a sociology professor at UCLA, where she entered the area of educational development. Nilson has held leadership positions in the POD Network, Toastmasters International, Mensa, and the Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium. Her career as a full-time faculty development director spans over 25 years. In this time, she has published many articles and book chapters and has given over 450 keynotes, webinars, and live workshops at conferences, colleges, and universities both nationally and internationally on dozens of topics related to college teaching and scholarly productivity. She has written several books, including Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time (Stylus, 2015), Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning Skills (Stylus, 2013), Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, now in its 4th edition (Jossey-Bass, 2016), and The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course (Jossey-Bass, 2007).
Updated: 10-14-2016
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Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
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- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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Universal Design for Learning: How to Improve Satisfaction and Retention for Students at All Learning Levels
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- You'll learn how UDL helps improve the interactions you have with students and how those improvements can increase student retention, persistence, and satisfaction across all kinds of learners.
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Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
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- Large classes are an unpleasant fact of life on many college campuses. The challenge of teaching hundreds of students at a time in a single, lecture-style setting can be daunting. This online seminar, presented by Dr. Anthony Sweat of Brigham Young University, will reveal practical techniques for reaching your pedagogical goals in large classes.
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How to Observe and Evaluate Online Teaching
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- This program gives guidance for assessing the underlying foundation of your schools online course offerings. You will learn about the significant interactions for evaluating design and teaching in online courses.
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An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
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- Discover simple strategies you can use every day, whether online or in the classroom, to ensure exams are not simply perceived as grade-generating mechanisms but instead recognized as enriched learning tools that will have a significant impact on student success.
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Online Learning through Instructional Design
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- This seminar provides you with the tools to seamlessly transition from face-to-face courses to an online learning format.
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Effective Writing Assessment in the Online Classroom
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- Discover a fresh look at how you can help students sharpen their writing and function at a higher level of competence in an online community of learners.
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Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
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- Learn strategies to help students achieve performance targets while also restoring student engagement through a variety of practical, actionable teaching techniques.
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Simple Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom for Gender Variant Students
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- Gain important insights into the ways you can create a classroom environment and a pedagogical approach that are responsive to the needs of all students and that contribute to an environment of mutual esteem and respect.
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Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses
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- Learn why there is an increased danger of attrition in online courses and how to address this in four key areas: course design, instructor presence, personal attention, and connectedness to the institution.
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The Technology-Free Approach to Flipping the Classroom
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- Explore a variety of flipped and active learning strategies they can use in class to allow students to apply, analyze, and evaluate course content.
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Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
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- Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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