Category: 20-Minute Mentors

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  • How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
    • How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?

    • How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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?
    • What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?

    • What Should I Consider When Evaluating Online Teaching Faculty?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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?
    • How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?

    • How Can I Teach Soft Skills to Better Prepare Students for the Workplace?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • 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?
  • How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?
    • How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?

    • How Can I Create an Effective Syllabus for My Online Class?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • The syllabus can not only help a student navigate the course content, but it also can become a substitute for first-day-of-class conversations, detail major assignments, and explain online-specific requirements such as technology required, netiquette, or recycled writing policies. Learn how to make an effective syllabus for online courses that will help you create a smoothly running class.
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  • What Technology and Tools Do I Need to Create a Podcast for My Students?
  • What Are the Basics of Podcasting?
    • What Are the Basics of Podcasting?

    • What Are the Basics of Podcasting?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Discover how to evaluate your content in the context of a podcast and determine if this is an appropriate tool for your content delivery. Gain an idea of the benefits to podcasting, both as a content delivery platform and a way for students to receive content in an efficient and convenient way.
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  • 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 Increase Student Completion Rates in Online Learning?
    • How Can I Increase Student Completion Rates in Online Learning?

    • How Can I Increase Student Completion Rates in Online Learning?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • In this program, learn how to adopt a systemic and practical approach to increase online completion rates in the context of declining overall enrollments, increasing student diversity, and rising educational costs. And, understand that instructors partnering with instructional designers in the context of institutional support is key to implementing the proposed framework elements.
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  • How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?
    • How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?

    • How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Learn several design-based first-year supports, how to create opportunities in the facilitation of your courses to create and build classroom skills, and how to plan/implement evaluations to continue to support students in their educational journey. Designing with students in mind first helps you be purposeful in your approach to building their skills and meeting their needs.
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  • How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?
    • How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?

    • How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • Attrition rates are 10% to 20% higher in online courses than their face-to-face counterparts. While online course formats offer convenient methods of instruction, poor course development often leads to high attrition rates. This program explores how applying Media Richness Theory (MRT) and Social Presence Theory to online course design and instruction can aid overall program retention and student satisfaction.
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  • How Can High Quality Faculty Development Improve Online Course Quality?
    • How Can High Quality Faculty Development Improve Online Course Quality?

    • How Can High Quality Faculty Development Improve Online Course Quality?

    • $39.00 – $499.00
    • This mentor will cover the benefits of providing high quality professional development opportunities for faculty, what some of these opportunities (or programs) might look like, and ultimately how these opportunities can positively impact the overall quality of online programming.
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