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Assessing Active Learning Microcredential

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.

Group Enrollment Pricing
1 person$329 per person
2-4 people$295 per person
5-9 people$209 per person
10-19 people$165 per person
20-39 people$139 per person
Group Enrollment discounts are applied in the cart.
The course enrollment will expire one year after activation.

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Creating meaningful assessments that truly measure student learning is a significant challenge in today’s active learning classrooms. Many faculty members struggle to engage students in critical thinking and collaboration, and ensuring that assessments support rigorous learning can be daunting. These issues can hinder the effectiveness of active learning and impact student success.

The Assessing Active Learning Microcredential is designed specifically for higher education faculty to overcome these challenges. This 5-hour asynchronous Magna Online Course equips you with the skills to develop creative assessment strategies that promote deep learning, foster critical thinking and collaboration among your students, and ensure your assessments align with the goals of an active learning classroom. Learn proven solutions that you can immediately implement from a collection of expert educators who share their best practices and success stories.

This asynchronous Magna Online Course is unique in its flexibility by adapting to your specific needs through a self-assessment tool that starts your journey. You’ll receive a recommended list of programs to complete to solve your biggest challenges. For those passionate about learning, you also have the option of completing as many of the programs you like. Upon completion of this Magna Online Course, you’ll not only gain proficiency in the essentials of assessing active learning, but receive a digital badge a testament to your commitment to improving student learning and engagement through innovative assessment strategies.

This Magna Online Course Includes:

  • A self-assessment tool to guide your learning to incorporate your specific needs
  • Goal-Setting Guide
  • Classroom Action Plan Worksheet
  • Supplemental materials for each program within the course
  • A digital badge upon completion

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Learning Goals:

At the conclusion of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Integrate innovative assessment activities to gauge student learning effectively
  • Streamline grading and teaching while enhancing student outcomes with efficient strategies
  • Apply on-the-fly assessment techniques to measure student engagement in real-time
  • Assess critical thinking through evaluations of student-created projects and assignments
  • Manage and assess student performance effectively in large classroom settings
  • Motivate students to complete reading assignments and incorporate them into assessments
  • Use post-exam reviews to reinforce learning and address gaps in understanding


How Does This Magna Online Course Work?

  • To earn the digital badge demonstrating your proficiency in assessing active learning, view 5 or more of the 7 included programs.
  • You may watch programs in any order.
  • Each program includes a note-taking guide, supplemental materials, and a transcript to further your learning.
  • To receive credit for a program, watch the entire program without refreshing or going to another page until the program is complete. (You may take breaks between programs.)
  • The course comes with a self-assessment tool which takes your responses and provides you a custom learning path, focusing on your biggest needs.
  • The course also comes with special additional resources such as a Classroom Action Plan and a Goal-Setting Guide to support you in implementing what you learned into your teaching.
  • Once you have completed the requirements of the course, you will be able to request a digital badge which demonstrates your proficiency of the subject matter.


Who Will Benefit from This Course:

  • Faculty teaching in any modality


Group Enrollment:

Discount pricing is available for multiple seats purchased at the same time.

For 10 or more seats, please contact Magna Sales at sales@magnapubs.com or call 800-433-0499 ext. 183 to receive a customized quote.

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Product Code: PQ23KA

Meet Your Presenters

Elizabeth Barkley, PhD
Professor of Music History, Foothill College

Norman Eng, EdD
Lecturer, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Maria Marconi, EdD, RN, CNE
Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Rochester

Linda B. Nilson, PhD
Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University

Anthony Sweat, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

Thomas Tobin, PhD
Program Area Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rebecca Zambrano, MA
Consultant, Founder of aipower Design

Purchase Options

Group Enrollment Pricing
1 person$299 per person
2-9 people$229 per person
10-49 people$179 per person
50-99 people$159 per person
Group Enrollment discounts are applied in the cart.
The course enrollment will expire one year after activation.
If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, you may cancel the order within 30 days of purchase and receive a full refund.

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