Category: Active and Engaged Students

Active and Engaged Students

Active and Engaged Students Training Courses

Get training to improve and increase active and engaged students in your classroom. Our course catalog gives you the strategies you need for success.

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  • How to Teach Transferable Skills for Career Readiness
  • How to Ensure Students Are Prepared for Class
    • How to Ensure Students Are Prepared for Class

    • How to Ensure Students Are Prepared for Class

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Discover practical strategies to boost student preparation and engagement—because when 70% of students skip pre-class work, classroom success and participation take a hit. Nichole Barta, EdD, tackles the root causes of student disengagement and shares actionable solutions to set clear expectations, highlight the value of preparation, and help students build effective study habits.
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  • How Can I Use AI to Create Engaging Discussion Boards?
  • How Can I Enhance the Quality of Class Discussions Using Shared Documents?
  • How Can I Alleviate Student Stress and Anxiety in My Class?
    • How Can I Alleviate Student Stress and Anxiety in My Class?

    • How Can I Alleviate Student Stress and Anxiety in My Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Reduce student stress and anxiety that hinder academic performance with evidence-based strategies that align with any course to create a supportive and growth-oriented classroom environment.
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  • How Can I Use Mindfulness Strategies to Prepare Students for Learning?
  • How Can I Recover Student Engagement Mid-Semester?
    • How Can I Recover Student Engagement Mid-Semester?

    • How Can I Recover Student Engagement Mid-Semester?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Gain easy-to-understand steps to address burnout through the use of mid-semester check-ins plus additional effective instructional strategies that re-engage students and improve their learning.
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  • How Can I Assess Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom?
    • How Can I Assess Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom?

    • How Can I Assess Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Discover practical tips for designing active courses and assignments to improve student engagement and problem-solving skills, then learn to effectively assess these strategies for continuous improvement in your classroom!
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  • Learning Design Level 2 Microcredential
    • Learning Design Level 2 Microcredential

    • Learning Design Level 2 Microcredential

    • $299.00
    • Unlock new levels of student engagement and effective course design with our flexible, expert-led Learning Design Level 2 Microcredential, and earn a digital badge that highlights your proficiency in innovative teaching strategies like gamification and micro-activities.
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  • Assessing Active Learning Microcredential
    • Assessing Active Learning Microcredential

    • Assessing Active Learning Microcredential

    • $299.00
    • The Assessing Active Learning Microcredential guides faculty in creating impactful assessments, enhancing critical thinking, and ensuring rigorous learning in active classrooms, backed by expert guidance to ensure strategies are implemented effectively, with a digital badge demonstrating proficiency upon completion.
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  • Active Learning Microcredential
    • Active Learning Microcredential

    • Active Learning Microcredential

    • $299.00
    • Enroll in the Active Learning Microcredential and receive a digital badge certifying your proficiency of engaging teaching techniques upon completion. Learn to make course material relevant, use brain-based strategies, inspire enthusiasm, connect with student interests, and foster meaningful conversations. You'll transform your classroom into a dynamic learning environment and elevate student engagement!
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  • How Can I Use Multimedia Course Content to Create a Tutoring Library for Students?
  • How Can I Use Podcasts to Enhance Course Content and Increase Engagement?
    • How Can I Use Podcasts to Enhance Course Content and Increase Engagement?

    • How Can I Use Podcasts to Enhance Course Content and Increase Engagement?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Explore the surging popularity of podcasts as a powerful tool for engaging and flexible teaching methods and bridge the gap between technology and students' needs. Discover how to utilize podcasts to enhance your pedagogy with valuable insights and practical applications to engage students more effectively and bring your course content to life.
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  • How Do I Get Students to Complete Reading Assignments?
    • How Do I Get Students to Complete Reading Assignments?

    • How Do I Get Students to Complete Reading Assignments?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Learn the research behind why students are not completing their reading assignments and take away a simple yet effective four-step, task-based approach that will get students to complete these assignments.
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  • Listening as an Instructional Leadership Behavior
    • Listening as an Instructional Leadership Behavior

    • Listening as an Instructional Leadership Behavior

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • This Magna Online Seminar, brought to you by the Teaching Professor Annual Conference, will help you better engage students and positively impact their success by introducing you to research-based recommendations about using listening as an instructional leadership behavior.
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  • How Can I Use Technology Platforms to Engage Students in Active Learning?
  • How Can I Use the Discussion Board to Stimulate Engagement and Build Confidence for First-Year Students?
  • How Can I Introduce Creativity to My Classes to Build Connection with Students?
  • How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?
    • How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?

    • How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This 20-Minute Mentor delivers meaningful, teacher-tested activities for the first day of class, that can easily be integrated into any course, which maximize the interest, investment, and interaction for students for the rest of the semester.
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  • How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
  • Practical Solutions for Faculty: Higher-Order Learning
    • Practical Solutions for Faculty: Higher-Order Learning

    • Practical Solutions for Faculty: Higher-Order Learning

    • $299.00
    • For faculty seeking guidance on shifting the focus from classroom learning to learning beyond college, this Magna Online Course provides practical strategies from experienced educators that will shift your students into a higher level of thinking and help them become lifelong learners.
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  • How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
    • How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?

    • How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • For teachers whose students are struggling to keep up with course content, pace, and assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor provides effective strategies for engaging students, assessing progress and comprehension, and promoting a growth mindset.
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  • How Can I Develop Opportunity-minded Learners?
    • How Can I Develop Opportunity-minded Learners?

    • How Can I Develop Opportunity-minded Learners?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This 20-Minute Mentor assists instructors in best preparing their students for a meaningful career post-graduation through implementation of numerous methods that foster skills of opportunity-identification and huntfulness.
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  • How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?
    • How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?

    • How Can Understanding Group Dynamics Lead to Better Group Work?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • For educators who are looking to maximize productivity and success in their student group work, this 20-Minute Mentor explores free resources that benefit group dynamics and can be implemented into your classroom to ultimately improve successful group work.
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  • On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 
    • On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 

    • On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • If you are hoping to assess student learning in real time in order to improve learning outcomes and student engagement, this online seminar offers more than 10 specific techniques for doing so, explained in detail, with examples of how to use each in the classroom.
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  • Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques
    • Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques

    • Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques

    • $0.00
    • For faculty and teachers in any modality, this free Magna Online Seminar will guide you in engaging college students at a deeper, more cognitive level while learning the barriers to learning and how to effectively overcome them.
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  • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
    • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings

    • Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • 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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  • Improve Participation in College Classrooms: How to Create a Discussion Strategy that Will Increase Student Learning and Engagement
  • Wake Them Up! Engaging Students in the 21st Century Classroom
  • Facilitate Deep Learning and Student Engagement through Socratic Questioning
  • Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age
    • Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age

    • Creating Critical Thinkers in the Information Age

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • Learn to be more mindful of how to critically access information. You will gain a toolbox of skills to apply to your own information use as well as that of your students.
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  • Strategies for Making Lectures More Active, Engaging, and Meaningful
  • Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
    • Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning

    • Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this Magna Online Seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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  • Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia
    • Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia

    • Engage and Empower Students by Using Wikipedia

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • This Magna Online Seminar offers a glimpse into how Wikipedia can empower students to share their knowledge with the world around them. Through real-life strategies and helpful background information, this seminar shows you how to use a tool you already understand in a new way to increase student engagement, boost critical thinking, and improve information literacy.
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  • Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners
    • Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners

    • Motivating and Engaging Generation Z Learners

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • This Magna Online Seminar will help you motivate, engage, and connect with the students and learners that inhabit the environments in which you teach and lead.
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  • Engage Early, Build Trust, and Gain Student Retention and Success
  • How to Improve Academic Lectures with TED Talk Principles: Connect, Convey, Communicate
  • Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
  • How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement
    • How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement

    • How to Use Interactive Lecturing as Pedagogy of Engagement

    • $39.00 – $799.00
    • This Magna Online Seminar will detail interactive lecturing, a model for combining lectures and active learning techniques in a way that can engage students and improve their learning.
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  • Teaching Underprepared Students to Take Control of Their Learning by Developing Metacognitive Skills
  • Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty
    • Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty

    • Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty

    • $39.00
    • Learn how to apply active learning methods in both small and large classes, as well as in an online teaching environment. Whether you are new to active learning methods or experienced with them, this comprehensive reference book can guide you every step of the way.
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  • How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?
    • How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?

    • How Can I Teach Critical Reflection in STEM Courses?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Teaching critical reflection skills in STEM courses helps develop professionals who can think, analyze, reason, solve problems creatively, and communicate. While some may be hesitant about teaching these skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses, thats where students and society can reap multiple benefits from critical reflection. Learn how to incorporate these skills in your STEM courses.
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  • How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?
    • How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?

    • How Can I Use Discussion to Facilitate Learning?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Focused, energizing classroom discussions that involve everyone are what higher education instructors dream of. Too bad they don't just happen. But you can learn the careful planning and structuring it takes to make them happen. We show you how to structure and plan classroom discussions to maximize student engagement, student participation, and learning.
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  • How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
    • How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?

    • How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Even though many faculty members routinely spell out course requirements in syllabi and give announcements and reminders, students continue to come to class unprepared. We provide several dynamic strategies that you can use to help students learn the value of reading.
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  • How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?
    • How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?

    • How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful in Your Course?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • One common misperception students have regarding online courses is that these courses are easier, less time consuming, and less rigorous than traditional face-to-face courses. This can lead to a major disconnect between expectations and outcome.
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  • How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
  • How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
    • How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?

    • How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Student engagement—especially in conversation and peer interaction—can be a big challenge for college educators. This program introduces four tried-and-true techniques to create a learning environment that is literally buzzing with student conversation.
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  • How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
  • What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
    • What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?

    • What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • We can all use fresh ideas for engaging students with course content. What can the games we play teach us about designing our courses? Games have kept people engaged for decades because they have systematically designed engagement practices. In this program we will explore how to recognize these engagement practices and apply them into course design. Learn how to use the games that surround us to make our courses more powerful.
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  • How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
  • What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
    • What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?

    • What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This program demonstrates several techniques to engage student brains in learning. All can be incorporated into either a traditional 50-minute or a longer class period. Since each students brain is unique and may learn in different ways, the presenters offer specific techniques that help vary the learning experience during a typical classroom time frame.
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  • How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
    • How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?

    • How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This program addresses how student misconceptions about course content can become barriers to learning and offers several techniques to help teachers facilitate the adoption of alternative viewpoints in their students.
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  • How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
    • How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?

    • How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Recent research shows that emotions have a strong impact on cognition. Instead of excluding emotion from the classroom, instructors would do well to acknowledge and take advantage of the impact emotions have on students ability to learn new material. Drawing on a proposed addition of Emotional Presence to the Community of Inquiry Framework, examine why and how emotions can increase learning and retention.
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  • What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?
  • Beyond Syllabus Policies: What Strategies Help Students Take Responsibility for Learning?
  • What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?
    • What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?

    • What are Five Methods that Help Students Become More Effective Learners?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • In this mentor, come away with expert strategies from a world-renowned teaching and learning specialist that will move your students toward becoming effective learners, allowing them to pursue understanding, learn from failures, and continue learning for life.
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  • How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
    • How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?

    • How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • When it comes to gatekeeper courses, there are often cases where expectations and reality don't match, and fears, rumors, and beliefs about hard courses and programs discourage students and limit enrollment. By creating student buy-in and ensuring students understand that you have their best interests at heart, you can help increase their satisfaction with their college experience and influence them to move along in their academic program, resulting in positive outcomes for students, teachers, and institutions.
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  • How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
    • How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?

    • How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This program explains what you need to do to gamify more courses and ensure students persist even through failure. You'll be exposed to several effective gamification strategies and examples of each. You'll also explore how these strategies can foster student persistence and engagement.
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  • How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?
    • How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?

    • How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • When gamifying your courses, it's vital that you measure the effectiveness of gamification and identify which aspects keep students most engaged. At times, you might have to make small changes. At other times, you might have to stop gamifying and reevaluate. This program will help you find the right fit for your courses.
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  • How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?
    • How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?

    • How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Create a positive and unique classroom environment in which students are more connected to your content through these concrete strategies for applying pop culture to your course.
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  • How Can I Inspire Creative Confidence in the Classroom?
    • How Can I Inspire Creative Confidence in the Classroom?

    • How Can I Inspire Creative Confidence in the Classroom?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Learn a step-by-step method for cultivating your students creativity in any subject area while deepening their engagement with course content and strengthening their presentation skills. You'll learn how to use 21st-century approaches and techniques, like transactive thinking and creativity tools, to help your students imagine, innovate, and implement.
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  • How Can I Engage Generation C?
    • How Can I Engage Generation C?

    • How Can I Engage Generation C?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • In just 20 minutes, this presentation covers the nature of the Generation C phenomenon and how it relates to classroom management, formative assessment tools, and low- and no-cost techniques for enhancing student engagement. From cell phones to Post-Its, this presentation is full of practical tips on how to connect with students.
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  • How Does Grit Team with a Growth Mindset to Cultivate Lifelong Learning?
    • How Does Grit Team with a Growth Mindset to Cultivate Lifelong Learning?

    • How Does Grit Team with a Growth Mindset to Cultivate Lifelong Learning?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Discover both instructional and classroom strategies that promote a growth mindset. Help transform students fixed mindsets, boost their confidence in their abilities, help them overcome setbacks in their education, and strengthen their persistence to learn.
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  • How Do I Release My Students’ Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?
    • How Do I Release My Students’ Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?

    • How Do I Release My Students’ Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Gain multiple strategies for spurring student curiosity natural zest for learning on a day-to-day basis as well as throughout the course. Explore surprising but practical ways to connect with students and get their feedback and incorporate it in your teaching methodology.
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  • How Can I Help Students See that Sweat-Working Hard and Smart-Is Key to Their Success?
  • How Can I Encourage the Growth Mindset with Three Simple Tips?
  • How Can Student Learning Begin Before the First Day of Class?
  • How Can I Communicate to Engage Students and Encourage Learning?
  • What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?
    • What Key Concepts Improve Student Learning and Memory?

    • 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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  • What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?
    • What Kinds of Questions Encourage Student Interaction?

    • 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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