1-week On-demand Individual Access
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, 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
Where Can I Find Flippable Moments in My Classes?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- If you have been wanting to flip but don't know where to start or fear you'll do it all wrong, this program is for you. Identify the flippable lessons in any course and determine which parts of your lessons you should actually invest time and energy in flipping.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Structure a Flipped Lesson?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn the structure and find the confidence to flip a lesson in a course you already teach or a new course you are designing. Discover how to integrate flipped lessons into the overall course for a seamless learning experience for your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Storyboarding? And How Can It Help Me Flip My Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- You don't have to be an artist or have any kind of advanced production skills to benefit from a storyboard. After this program you will be able to use a storyboard to create a more powerful video that supports learning objectives and reinforces the benefits of the flipped classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Are 5 FAQ’s About Faculty Roles in the Flipped Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program will give you the confidence you need to start flipping your own courses right away. Discover the answers to the five most common areas of concern for instructors new to flipping.
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