1-week On-demand Individual Access
Jennifer H. Waldeck is professor and head, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is affiliated faculty in the Department of Communication Studies, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia. She currently serves as president of the Eastern Communication Association, and chair of its Finance and Publication Committees. Prior to joining UGA, she served as professor and associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs in the School of Communication, Chapman University.
A Distinguished Research Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association, Waldeck’s research interests span organizational, instructional, strategic, and applied communication. She has written or co-authored eight books and 75 peer-reviewed articles and chapters including a number of influential works on the theory and methods of effective instructional communication. She has won “Top Paper” honors in Instructional Communication, Applied Communication, Organizational Communication, Training & Development, and Instructional Communication groups at international, national, and regional conferences. She has served on the editorial boards of twelve academic journals, and is a long-time member of the Teaching Professor advisory board.
Last Updated: 04-25-2023
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is the Role of Communication In Teaching Excellence?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn prosocial, positive, encouraging ways to address students and spur their confidence. You'll identify both verbal and nonverbal communication cues to maximize the value of your interactions with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Communicate to Engage Students and Encourage Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how to self-assess your communication skills in the instructional context to see what works best for you and your students—and pick up new techniques to broaden your abilities.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Faculty, Magna All Access, Online Course Design and Preparation
How Can I Save Time and Money by Repurposing Online Content?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This session will inspire you to look at your existing work in new ways. Seeing all the future uses of your online education materials will motivate you to take your course preparation work to the next level.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn the positive results—empowering students, motivating them, increasing their engagement, achieving better learning outcomes—that can be realized through strategic decisions you make about your grading policies.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Ethical Issues Lurk in My Grading Policy?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Assess your current grading practices to ensure they are grounded in fairness and objectivity. Learn about the checks and balances you can apply to your grading policies to ensure they conform to your ethical standards.
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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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