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Lolita Paff is an associate professor of business and economics at Penn State Berks. Integrating professional experience as a Certified Public Accountant with subsequent training as an economist, she teaches introductory and advanced courses in accounting, business, and economics. Her pedagogical interests include classroom and online interaction, metacognition, learner-centered instruction, and student motivation. In 2014 she received a MERLOT Classics Award in Business, a peer-reviewed national recognition, for co-authoring an exemplary online learning resource. She serves on the Teaching Professor Conference advisory board, College Teaching’s editorial board, and leads faculty development workshops on a variety of topics.
Last Updated: 10-13-2023
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- When it comes to gatekeeper courses, there are often cases where expectations and reality don't match, and fears, rumors, and beliefs about hard courses and programs discourage students and limit enrollment. By creating student buy-in and ensuring students understand that you have their best interests at heart, you can help increase their satisfaction with their college experience and influence them to move along in their academic program, resulting in positive outcomes for students, teachers, and institutions.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Magna All Access
How Can I Manage the Disconnect Between Faculty and Student Perceptions of Rigor to Increase Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- You can't dispel students misperceptions about difficult coursework if you're unaware of what these misperceptions are. This program discusses common mismatched definitions of rigor and strategies for bridging the divide between teacher definitions and student definitions. By leveraging these strategies, you'll be better able to improve students motivation and build stronger classroom connections.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
What is Gamification and How Can it Promote a Growth Mindset?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Gamification uses gaming elements and mechanics in a nongame context—and it's really simple to implement if you know where to start.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program explains what you need to do to gamify more courses and ensure students persist even through failure. You'll be exposed to several effective gamification strategies and examples of each. You'll also explore how these strategies can foster student persistence and engagement.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- When gamifying your courses, it's vital that you measure the effectiveness of gamification and identify which aspects keep students most engaged. At times, you might have to make small changes. At other times, you might have to stop gamifying and reevaluate. This program will help you find the right fit for your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
What are Five Tips for Creating Videos that Promote Knowledge and Expand My Reach?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Academic knowledge rarely permeates into mainstream society, much less the media. To get publicity, more grant and funding opportunities, and to effectively disseminate knowledge, instructors must understand how video plays a major role. This program discusses five strategies you can use to create videos that reach more people and answer common problems.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Personal Development
How Can I Repurpose My Content into Videos That Get Viewed (and Shared)?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Often teachers and researchers work tirelessly to make an impact through video, but its reach is typically limited to the classroom or institution. In the information age, knowledge is power. This program provides proven methods for creating impactful video content that gets viewed and shared by a broader audience.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
How Can Livestreaming Bring New Life to My Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Livestreaming can reenergize teaching, research, projects, departments and units, and institutions. Younger generations especially crave the raw, authentic viewpoints that livestreaming provides, and all audiences like the behind-the-scenes and insider access that going live enables.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
What are the Key Components of the Online Instructor Onboarding Process?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- To ensure faculty have a seamless transition into their online role, your institution needs to have a proper onboarding process in place that introduces instructors to the unique aspects of the online classroom. This program provides best practices for onboarding online faculty and ensuring online programs run smoothly and successfully.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty Support, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Making sure students are taught by quality faculty—often adjunct instructors—is key to retention and brand success. This program contains proven strategies that can be used to attract and retain the best adjunct instructors for online courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Legal Concerns, Magna All Access
Copyright Crash Course: How Can I Stay on the Right Side of the Law?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program not only teaches the core concepts of copyright law, but its also useful in a train-the-trainer sense—it is designed to give you the ideas and tools you need to be able to be a copyright ninja in an academic environment.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Effectively Review Online Courses and Programs for Quality?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- You'll be walked through the various options available for quality reviews, the reasons why more institutions are conducting these reviews, and how they are successfully coordinating them.
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