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Kenneth L. Alford is a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University.
After serving almost 30 years on active duty in the United States Army, he retired as a Colonel in 2008. While on active military duty, Alford served in numerous assignments, including the Pentagon, eight years teaching computer science at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and four years as a department chair and professor teaching strategic leadership at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He has published and presented on a wide variety of topics during his career.
Last updated: 4-19-2021

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    • What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?

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    • What things can teachers do to become more effective in the classroom? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better teacher, this presentation shares teaching advice collected from outstanding research professors.
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  • What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
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    • What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?

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    • What things can teachers do to become more effective scholars? For faculty who are interested in becoming a better and more efficient researcher and writer, this presentation shares scholarship advice assembled from outstanding research professors.
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  • What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
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    • What is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?

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    • Balancing teaching, scholarship, and citizenship responsibilities is challenging for college professors. What can teachers do to more effectively fulfill their citizenship responsibilities?
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  • How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
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    • Your syllabus is one of the first impressions your course will make on your students. Need an aha moment to punch up your syllabi? Learn how to transform them from long, boring and text-laden documents to something elegant and engaging that your students will want to read.
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  • How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
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    • How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?

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    • Backwards design is a straightforward process that provides value to both learners and instructors by creating alignment between objectives, class format, and examination questions. This method can assure student success by focusing on the outcomes first and ensuring that the course content aligns with those outcomes, while also creating a better process for instructors by allowing them to focus on their own content more efficiently.
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  • How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
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    • Changing an educational format or program can be challenging for both instructors and students. Viewing classroom change through the Kubler-Ross change curve helps determine that stress and resistance can be managed through to experimentation and integration over time.
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  • How Can I Build a Mindset for Assessment in an Academic Department?
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    • Assessment is at the heart of effective teaching and student success. Assessment is regularly practiced in the classroom by faculty; yet moving assessment into a more formal, structured, and systematic department process may make faculty feel vulnerable.
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  • How Can I Analyze Department Data and Move Towards Closing the Assessment Loop?
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    • This program explores the steps that should be considered once assessment data has been collected at the departmental level. These steps cover very practical implications and the planning tips provided help ensure this process is efficient, meaningful, and considered worthy of your faculty's time.
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  • How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
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    • Change is sweeping through higher education. Major strategic choices come from university leadership rather than deans and department chairs. The deans and department chairs represent the middle management where actual change must be implemented. This 20-Minute Mentor helps explicate the causes of these changes and the strategies to address the need for change.
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  • What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?
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    • What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?

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    • This mentor is especially useful for anyone new to evaluating faculty, uncomfortable with confrontation or coaching difficulty conversations, or interested in redesigning the evaluation process or mechanism (form/tool) on their campus.
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  • How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?
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    • This Magna 20-Minute Mentor discusses core power skills which include: teamwork, communication, positive attitude, critical thinking, professionalism, and time management. You'll also learn a four phase approach to integrating soft-skill education into a curriculum and how to design related activities to unleash the full potential of your students.
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  • How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
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    • How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?

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    • This program explains, through the lens of the literature, how the brain processes information, and identifies why microactivities are a great method of formative assessment to check in with your students learning and move information closer to long-term memory.
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