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Tona Hangen, PhD, is a professor of history at Worcester State University. She is a social and cultural historian who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern U.S. history, historical research methods, and the pedagogy of history. She has wide-ranging research interests, including digital methods, religion and media, and the history of American civil rights and citizenship.
In 2015 she received her university’s undergraduate teaching award. She holds degrees from MIT and Brandeis University, and is the author of Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America (Chapel Hill: UNC, 2002), among other works.

Last Updated: 05-26-2020

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    • 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

    • Price range: $39.00 through $799.00
    • 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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  • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
    • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings

    • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings

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    • Have you ever had difficulty getting students to complete required readings?  Is it a challenge to get them to think more critically about the content? This Magna Online Seminar will introduce four methods for increasing your students’ engagement with course readings.  Each method will be explored in detail, and all materials will be supplied for you to use these activities with your own classes.
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  • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
    • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times

    • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times

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    • This online seminar is designed for educators who are interested in learning about how they can teach their students despite the presence of trauma. Participants will acquire strategies they can use to help students continue their learning in the middle of this pandemic.
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  • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
    • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments

    • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments

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    • A tenured Universal Design for Learning (UDL) expert will discuss assessment alternatives based on UDL framework that are acceptable even in cases where instructors do not believe they have flexibility to change assessments.
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  • How Can Social Learning be Used as a Reflective Practice in Faculty Development?
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    • Engaged and motivated faculty directly impact student success. This is why effective faculty development is essential! This program details a unique perspective on how to design and deliver programming for faculty success using social learning theory, where faculty are able to interact and learn directly from their peers.
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  • What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?
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    • What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?

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    • In this program, Ann Taylor, PhD, assistant dean for distance learning and director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University, shares her personal Top 10 pieces of advice that she's received while working in higher-education leadership for the past two decades, illustrating each with a story of its influence.
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  • How Can Universities Increase Employee Engagement in an Era of Increased Workforce Competition?
  • How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?
    • How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?

    • How Can Higher Education Leadership Strengthen Campus-wide Collaboration?

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    • This 20-Minute Mentor provides direction to use the five Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation, and Compliance, to lead your institution toward enhancing campus-wide buy-in and improving collaborations with all stakeholders.
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  • How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?
    • How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?

    • How Should We Measure Teaching Effectiveness?

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    • Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are the most common tools for measuring instructor effectiveness. However, there is a large and growing literature documenting some of the major problems with SETs. These findings have motivated a national conversation about measurement of instructor effectiveness and the meaningfulness of statistical data collected from student evaluations.
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  • How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?
    • How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?

    • How Can Pure Heart Leadership Build Authenticity and Create Engaged and Empowered Teams?

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    • Pure Heart Leadership is a leadership approach, blending the psychology theories of Car Rogers, Albert Bandura, and Abraham Maslow, that encourages an authentic leadership while recognizing the individuality and strengths of leaders. This 20-Minute Mentor provides you with everything you need to know about this unique approach to leadership, led by the expert who developed this method.
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  • How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
    • How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?

    • How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?

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    • In this 20-Minute Mentor, you will learn how to develop your own personal users' guide, which is an explanation of how to successfully work with you. This guide allows you to create a direct method for effective communication and the ability to share key information about what helps you to be an effective professional.
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  • How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
    • How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?

    • How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?

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    • What does equity look like in the online classroom? This session will explore what it means to teach equitably and identifies five equitable practices that you can incorporate into your online courses.
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  • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
    • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions

    • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions

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    • Examine common question-writing pitfalls and learn item analysis, so you can examine the performance of your questions and determine how to refine them for next time.
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  • Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success
    • Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success

    • Flex Learning: Helping Students Choose Their Path to Success

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    • Flex learning is the next evolution of blended learning. It enables students to learn in the way that works best for them. This seminar will show you how the flex model allows instructors to imaginatively redesign almost any course to better meet the needs of students and guide them toward greater academic success.
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  • How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education
    • How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education

    • How to Effectively Lead Change in Higher Education

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    • If you want to make things happen on your campus and help others embrace the changes, you just need to know the steps to take that help ensure success. This seminar breaks change down into a process and then gives you a road map to follow.
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  • Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences
    • Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences

    • Assessment Strategies for Flipped Learning Experiences

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    • Educators who want to ensure that their students are engaging fully with the course material need specialized assessment tools to evaluate their progress and make changes efficiently. This seminar aims to show educators in flipped learning classrooms the assessment options available and how to use them for the best results.
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  • Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
  • Legal Issues in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: How Colleges and Universities Can Hire the Right Faculty and Reduce the Risk of Costly Litigation
  • Overcoming Implicit Bias in Higher Education
    • Overcoming Implicit Bias in Higher Education

    • Overcoming Implicit Bias in Higher Education

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    • Gain strategies you can use to recruit, hire, and sustain a more diverse team of academic faculty and staff. Learn about results from the latest research on implicit bias, and get proven strategies you can use to anticipate and reduce its effects on the three key stages of the search process: recruiting, hiring, and managing.
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  • How to Create a Transformative Learning Experience for Students by Managing Hot Moments and Difficult Discussions in the Classroom
  • Documentation of Disability: What Is Good Practice and What Can Be Legally Required?