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Ann Taylor, PhD has worked in the field of distance education since 1991, focusing on learning design and faculty development. As the assistant dean for Distance Learning and director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University, Taylor is responsible for guiding the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences strategic vision and planning for online learning. She works with faculty, administrators, stakeholders, and Institute staff to plan and implement online programs that are tailored to the needs of adult professionals worldwide. She serves on University committees focused on strategic planning, policies, and procedures related to the Penn States distance learning initiatives and has been an active member of the University Faculty Senate since 2007, where she is currently the elected Secretary. Ann regularly works with University colleagues to create resources for faculty who teach online, and she shares her work as a frequent public speaker and author.

Taylor earned her PhD in workforce education and development from the Pennsylvania State University and an MA in curriculum and instruction from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.

Updated 10-31-2017

- 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?
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- This 20-Minute Mentor details the concept of employee engagement, gives insight into what an engaged higher education workplace looks like, and shares successful strategies for engaging faculty and staff.
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- 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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- Gain insights into what keeps students from participating in a discussion—and how to overcome those barriers. Explore strategies you can use to better structure each discussion for increased student involvement.
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- Legal Issues in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure: How Colleges and Universities Can Hire the Right Faculty and Reduce the Risk of Costly Litigation
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- Explore details of the key laws that everyone handling academic personnel matters should know, as well as key strategies for hiring the right faculty from the start. Learn about best practices that can reduce the risk of costly and time-consuming litigation and disputes.
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- 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
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- Gain proven strategies for managing difficult dialogue and responding to hot moments in the classroom. Learn how to prepare for a challenging discussion and make it more productive, as well as how to assess the outcomes of the experience and the impact it had on your students.
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- Documentation of Disability: What Is Good Practice and What Can Be Legally Required?
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- Learn to distinguish between the two major types of accommodations, identify instances when documentation is required, and interpret the statutes and laws to guide decisions at your school.
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- Customized Course Review Rubrics: How to Take the Quality of Your Online Courses to the Next Level
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- Learn who to involve in the planning, how to decide on the questions included, and the steps to creating a course review rubric that makes sense for your online programs.
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- How to Design and Facilitate Online Discussions that Improve Student Learning and Engagement
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- Learn several design and facilitation ideas to help you create a better learning experience for your students. You'll see examples of online discussion activities, including student posts and instructor feedback to those posts as well as an assessment rubric template you can use to evaluate the quality of your online discussions and help you adapt what you learn in this webinar to your own online courses.
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- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
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- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- The Flipped Classroom: Strategies to Overcome Student Resistance and Increase Student Engagement
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- Explore strategies you can use to create a successful flipped learning experience for you and your students. Find out how to identify the reasons that some students resist the flipped classroom model and how you can address those challenges to increase the likelihood that they will come to class prepared.
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- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
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- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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- Universal Design for Learning: How to Improve Satisfaction and Retention for Students at All Learning Levels
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- You'll learn how UDL helps improve the interactions you have with students and how those improvements can increase student retention, persistence, and satisfaction across all kinds of learners.
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- Connecting with Students in Large-Section Classes
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- Large classes are an unpleasant fact of life on many college campuses. The challenge of teaching hundreds of students at a time in a single, lecture-style setting can be daunting. This online seminar, presented by Dr. Anthony Sweat of Brigham Young University, will reveal practical techniques for reaching your pedagogical goals in large classes.
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- How to Observe and Evaluate Online Teaching
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- This program gives guidance for assessing the underlying foundation of your schools online course offerings. You will learn about the significant interactions for evaluating design and teaching in online courses.
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