Teaching Strategies and Professional Development

Category: Faculty

- How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For online educators who want to assist students in effective note-taking in order to best succeed in learning content, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for educators to guide student note-taking specifically in the online classroom.
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- 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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- How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For remote and online teachers who want to assess learning to keep students on track, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many ideas specific to online and remote teaching for activities, assignments, and assessments that gauge learning.
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- How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For educators who are new to teaching remote, synchronous classes and realize students are easily bored or distracted, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for engaging students immediately with games, activities, or polls.
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- How Can I Extend My Research to the Public with a Podcast?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For higher education professionals who want to increase exposure for their academic research beyond their disciplines and to a broader public audience, this 20-Minute Mentor provides step-by-step instruction on both creating and producing a podcast.
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- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching
- $39.00 – $799.00
- For educators who are teaching during stressful times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and recognizing that both their students and they are disrupted by stress and anxiety, this special two-part Magna Online Seminar provides actionable ideas and tools for teaching with a trauma-sensitive approach.
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- How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and don’t see student engagement on the discussion boards, this Magna 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable advice on creating questions that promote critical thinking and generate meaningful discussion.
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- How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For online instructors who are creating a new online course or converting their face to face course to an online course, this 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
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- How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and are struggling with time management, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to plan and prioritize for the instructional activities that have the greatest impact on student learning.
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- How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty teaching online, especially in a remote content delivery method who are struggling to find a meaningful way to hold office hours without overly scheduling themselves, this 20-Minute Mentor gives practical advice that instructors can follow immediately to design, schedule, and facilitate online office hours to maximize students’ use.
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- What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty teaching online courses who are interested in incorporating easy-to-use technology to enhance student learning, this 20-Minute Mentor describes five technologies, and includes the appropriate application and benefits of each, to create a personalized, interactive, impactful, and engaging learning experience
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- How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For instructors who are new to teaching online who need guidance in creating a learning-centered online classroom, this 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
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- Dynamic and Effective Teaching Through Applied Improvisation
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Get a new take on active learning! This Magna Online Seminar gives instructors the confidence to bring improvisational theatre techniques to the university classroom and apply them to create meaningful connections with students, leading to deeper learning of classroom material.
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- “Help! I’m Moving My Course Online!”– Practical Advice for New Online Instructors
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- Do you need to rapidly transition to online instruction? Can’t afford the trial and error approach? This free Magna Online Seminar will give you practical advice about the need-to-have basics for quickly and successfully transitioning your course online, from an experienced online educator.
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- Reimagining STEM Education Through a Humanities Lens
- $39.00 – $799.00
- For STEM educators who are striving to meet student interest in inclusive and meaning-centered education, this Magna Online Seminar provides concrete, evidence-based strategies and a framework for reimagining a STEM education through a humanities lens.
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- Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Have you integrated inclusive pedagogies into your teaching and wonder what’s next? Are you ready to be more intentional about making your assignments and course content more equity-minded? This Magna Online Seminar will identify evidence-based approaches to add equity-minded content and improve the success of minoritized students in your disciplinary and institutional context.
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- An Online Educator’s Guide to Using Zoom Features to Enhance Student Interactivity
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you keep your online synchronous classroom from being simply lecture-based through a variety of interactive learning techniques that will keep your synchronous classroom buzzing.
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- Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Through the use of open pedagogy and open syllabi, instructors can empower students to play a larger role in the development and curation of learning materials for their classes. In this Magna Online Seminar, we will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and open syllabi and discuss practical ways they have been successfully used in classroom settings with both commercial and open educational resource (OER) materials.
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- Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
- $39.00 – $799.00
- 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
- $39.00 – $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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- Planning and Designing Your College Course
- $39.00
- Planning and Designing Your College Course focuses on the planning aspects that precede the launching of a course—the work instructors do behind the scenes and that students usually aren’t privy to. You’ll be able to make each key part of your course design learner-centered and obtain strategies to get students to collaborate in the course design process.
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- 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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- Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
- $39.00 – $299.00
- 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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