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Claire Major, PhD is a professor of higher education at The University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests center on instructional approaches and instructional technology. She has authored and co-authored ten books, including four with Elizabeth Barkley: Interactive lecturing, Learning assessment techniques, Collaborative learning techniques, and Student engagement techniques. In addition to these, she has published Teaching for learning: 101 intentionally designed instructional activities to put students on the path to success, with Michael Harris and Todd Zakrajsek, and Online learning: A guide to theory, research, and practice. She has published her research in top-tier journals and presented it at national and international conferences. Major has also presented public lectures and faculty workshops, as well as online workshops and webinars, for dozens of colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.

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  • Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques
    • Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques

    • Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques

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    • For faculty and teachers in any modality, this free Magna Online Seminar will guide you in engaging college students at a deeper, more cognitive level while learning the barriers to learning and how to effectively overcome them.
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  • How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
    • How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?

    • How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?

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    • For remote and online teachers who want to assess learning to keep students on track, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many ideas specific to online and remote teaching for activities, assignments, and assessments that gauge learning.
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  • How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
  • How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
    • How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?

    • How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?

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    • For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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  • What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
    • What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?

    • What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?

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    • For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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  • Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching
    • Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching

    • Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching

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    • For educators who are teaching during stressful times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and recognizing that both their students and they are disrupted by stress and anxiety, this special two-part Magna Online Seminar provides actionable ideas and tools for teaching with a trauma-sensitive approach.
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  • How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
  • How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
    • How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?

    • How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?

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    • For online instructors who are creating a new online course or converting their face to face course to an online course, this 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
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  • How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
  • How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
    • How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?

    • How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?

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    • For faculty teaching online, especially in a remote content delivery method who are struggling to find a meaningful way to hold office hours without overly scheduling themselves, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical advice that instructors can follow immediately to design, schedule, and facilitate online office hours to maximize students’ use.
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  • What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
    • What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?

    • What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?

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    • For faculty teaching online courses who are interested in incorporating easy-to-use technology to enhance student learning, this 20-Minute Mentor describes five technologies, and includes the appropriate application and benefits of each, to create a personalized, interactive, impactful, and engaging learning experience
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  • How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
    • How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?

    • How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?

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    • For instructors who are new to teaching online who need guidance in creating a learning-centered online classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
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  • Tips for Department Chairs on Navigating Academic Departmental Relationships
    • Tips for Department Chairs on Navigating Academic Departmental Relationships

    • Tips for Department Chairs on Navigating Academic Departmental Relationships

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    • This Magna Online Seminar is for aspiring, new, and experienced academic chairs who desire a meaningful and productive working relationship with their deans and seek guidance in navigating the bureaucracy and politics of their institutions. You’ll receive insight about how to develop this important relationship to benefit and advance your department.
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  • “Help! I’m Moving My Course Online!”– Practical Advice for New Online Instructors
  • Reimagining STEM Education Through a Humanities Lens
    • Reimagining STEM Education Through a Humanities Lens

    • Reimagining STEM Education Through a Humanities Lens

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    • For STEM educators who are striving to meet student interest in inclusive and meaning-centered education, this Magna Online Seminar provides concrete, evidence-based strategies and a framework for reimagining a STEM education through a humanities lens.
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  • The Role of Higher Education in Times of Crisis: Healing Strategies for Educators
    • The Role of Higher Education in Times of Crisis: Healing Strategies for Educators

    • The Role of Higher Education in Times of Crisis: Healing Strategies for Educators

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    • Colleges and universities have a long-standing role in advancing civil discourse. How can we lead our communities in a meaningful and healing way when we are geographically displaced and relying on remote, online communication? For academic leaders and faculty who are challenged with effective communication during a time of social unrest, this free Magna Online Seminar provides direction for leaders to provide healing, helping, education, and engagement.
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  • The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence
    • The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence

    • The Role of Educational Developers in Teaching and Learning Excellence

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    • For educational developers who help faculty in any aspect of course preparation, delivery, or professional development, this Magna Online Seminar links this professional role to student achievement and success. You will take away a solid understanding of how educational development is vital in teaching and learning excellence and how it’s a discipline of supporting high quality student learning experiences.
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  • Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
    • Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content

    • Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content

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    • Have you integrated inclusive pedagogies into your teaching and wonder what’s next? Are you ready to be more intentional about making your assignments and course content more equity-minded? This Magna Online Seminar will identify evidence-based approaches to add equity-minded content and improve the success of minoritized students in your disciplinary and institutional context.
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  • An Online Educator’s Guide to Using Zoom Features to Enhance Student Interactivity
  • Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
    • Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success

    • Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success

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    • Through the use of open pedagogy and open syllabi, instructors can empower students to play a larger role in the development and curation of learning materials for their classes. In this Magna Online Seminar, we will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and open syllabi and discuss practical ways they have been successfully used in classroom settings with both commercial and open educational resource (OER) materials.
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  • Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
    • Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments

    • Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments

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    • The best courses start with the end in mind. What will students learn or be able to do by the end of this class? This Magna Online Seminar helps you organize your workflow and equips you with the tools to line up your course learning elements with your student learning outcomes.
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  • Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science
    • Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science

    • Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science

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    • 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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  • Leading Change and Effective Communication: Quick Response to the Threat of Coronavirus to Support a Campus Community
  • Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership
    • Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership

    • Advanced Leadership Philosophies: Comparing Servant and Toxic Leadership

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    • 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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