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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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how to assess most critical thinking skills using an assortment of methods, such as true/false, matching, multiple choice, and multiple true/false tests. Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn the merits of absolute grading versus grading on a curve, the pluses and minuses of letter-based and point-based grading, and whether—and how—to properly weight assignments across a semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Delivery and Instruction, Personal Development
How Can I Develop Online Instructor Presence?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn step-by-step guidelines for establishing an instructor presence in your online classes. Identify the things you want to share with your class and create a strategy for expressing your persona throughout the semester.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program identifies both general and discipline-specific critical thinking skills and how to turn these skills into good student learning outcomes. Learn to define critical thinking when designing or redesigning courses and identify the type of content conducive to practicing critical thinking.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Classroom Climate, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- There are simple ways you can liven up the classroom experience so it feels fresh. This program shows you how to incorporate creativity, optimism, enthusiasm, approachability, and humor to reenergize your teaching and create a positive classroom environment that engages students and supports learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- There are a lot of things going on that can keep your students from performing at their best. This program shows you the kinds of challenges your students face and then offers a simple, adaptable classroom tool that you can use to help your students help themselves learn course material and effectively demonstrate their knowledge on exams.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program presents five different memory-boosting strategies to incorporate into your teaching. Learn how to use cueing, the testing effect, semantic encoding, peer teaching, and the spacing effect to help your students learn more course content, move to higher levels of learning, and recall information more easily on exams.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Minimize Cheating in the Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Technology and punishment alone are not solving the problem of cheating. This program will show you real world-tested techniques to help you minimize cheating by inspiring a growth mindset in your students and encouraging them to change their goals from getting good grades to mastery learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Department and Program Evaluation and Assessment, Leadership, Magna All Access
How Can I Measure My Faculty Development Center’s Impact?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In an era of ever-tightening budget restrictions placed on universities and departments, no program or academic center is safe from cutbacks. This program prepares you to measure and articulate the value of your center in ways that matter to people who think about line items and dollar signs.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Changing how you use questions requires a few simple tweaks to your approach and not a major overhaul of your teaching methods. Learn the subtle things you can do to make your questions more powerful and your classroom interactions with students more fruitful.
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