Faculty Development Microcredential

Effective faculty development is crucial for cultivating an environment where both educators and students thrive. However, creating and managing faculty development programs comes with significant challenges. From designing engaging programs and addressing performance concerns to maintaining robust mentoring relationships, the process can be complex and demanding. Especially when all the hard work and time spent results in less than ideal results due to unengaged faculty.

Our Faculty Development Microcredential is crafted to meet these challenges directly, offering you the expertise and strategies necessary to enhance your faculty development efforts. Through this asynchronous 4.5-hour Magna Online Course, you’ll gain insights from experienced faculty developers and leaders who share their trusted techniques for evaluating, coaching, and mentoring faculty members. You’ll explore how to develop faculty evaluation and review guidelines that get it right, create development programs that engage and motivate, and address both minor and serious performance issues through effective coaching. Additionally, you’ll learn how to integrate social learning into your practices and build a strong faculty community.

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. Completing this Magna Online Course earns you a digital badge, which showcases your new skills and enhances your professional portfolio.

Enhance your faculty development strategies and take your professional skills to the next level by enrolling in our Faculty Development Microcredential. With our expert-led guidance and practical solutions, you’ll be well-equipped to address the challenges you face and drive meaningful improvements in your faculty development programs. Earn a digital badge that showcases your commitment to excellence!

This Magna 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

View Included Programs In This Magna Online Course

Learning Goals:

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

• Develop effective guidelines for faculty evaluation and review that ensure fairness and accuracy in assessing performance
• Design and implement engaging and impactful faculty development programs that foster professional growth and enhance teaching effectiveness
• Utilize coaching techniques to address and resolve minor performance concerns among online faculty, ensuring continued development and improvement
• Apply advanced strategies to address serious performance issues in online faculty, creating actionable plans for remediation and support
• Evaluate the suitability of coaching within your faculty development program and determine how it can best be integrated to support faculty members
• Employ tools and methods for conducting productive coaching conversations, ensuring clear communication and effective outcomes in faculty development
• Create and sustain a robust faculty mentoring program, incorporating social learning as a reflective practice to promote ongoing professional development and community building

How Does This Magna Online Course Work?

• To earn the digital badge demonstrating your proficiency in faculty development, view 5 or more of the 9 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 practice.
• 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 Developers
• Educational Developers
• Directors of the Center for Teaching & Learning
• Deans
• Teaching and Learning Specialists
• Training and Development Coordinators

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: PQ23SA

Meet Your Presenters

Ken Alford, PhD
Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

Kate Forhan, PhD
Professor Emeritus, University of Southern Maine

Bethanie Hansen, DMA
Faculty Director, American Public University System

Nicki Monahan, MEd
Faculty Facilitator and Coach, George Brown College

Donna Qualters, PhD
Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching (CELT), Tufts University

Shantell Strickland-Davis, PhD
Executive Director, Central Piedmont Community College