Online Seminars
Magna Online Seminars have built a reputation for their quality, timeliness and relevance. Live and interactive, they feature leading educators and thought leaders delivering thought-provoking, practical presentations. Plus if you can’t make the live event, all seminars are available on-demand for a full 30 days. Our Online Seminar Package also includes a copy of the recording on CD, plus the full transcript and supplemental materials. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.
Assessment Strategies for the Flipped Classroom
If you’re already flipping your courses or just starting to think about it, you have to consider how to assess student learning. Since flipping lessons results in different classroom activities, it takes different assessment approaches to measure the efficacy of these new instructional approaches. Learn how to effectively measure flipped learning in this online seminar led by Barbi Honeycutt, PhD.
Online Seminar • Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 • 1:00 pm Eastern
Assessment Alternatives for Your Online Courses
It is time to refocus online courses away from superficial fact-based lessons and toward competency-based learning. Traditional tests and quizzes are limited to determining the amount of information retained. Better assessments lead to better course design and improved student performance. Moreover, better assessment provides more useful feedback for you and your students, so you both experience greater success.
Online Seminar • Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 • 1:00 pm Eastern
Universal Design: Five Steps to Make Your Course Accessible
Course accessibility is about increasing learning for any and all students. It is about inclusion and equality. Ultimately, it is about student success. Participants of this seminar will not only learn about the value of universal design and the need to improve accessibility; but they will finish with actual tools and tactics they can employ immediately.
Online Seminar • Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 • 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Efficient and Effective Feedback in the Online Classroom
Detailed, specific feedback enhances student learning. It also helps boost morale, promote engagement, and encourage faculty-student connection. Unfortunately, it often consumes an inordinate amount of faculty time. This seminar will introduce you to a set of tools and practices designed to help you create better feedback for your online students in far less time.
Online Seminar • Wednesday, July 24th, 2013 • 1:00 pm Eastern
Recent Seminars
Creating Faculty Learning Communities: 16 Recommendations
Faculty Learning Communities go beyond the common faculty development opportunities. These small, multidisciplinary groups bring about important teaching and learning enhancements and can have a profound effect on the culture of an institution. In this seminar, Dr. Milton Cox provides clear and practical guidance on how to set up a successful Faculty Learning Community within your institution
Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
A Model for Teaching Large Blended Classes
Blended courses, when executed skillfully, can create a better learning experience for students while also meeting the needs of the institution for scalability and academic rigor. This seminar goes beyond discussing theory and focuses on demonstrating how blending has worked in classroom settings, giving you the skills you need to adapt the blended learning model to your own courses.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
How Recent Copyright Court Cases Affect Distance Education
Distance learning continues to transform academia and copyright law is one of the few higher ed issues that’s evolving just as quickly. Through review of best practices in fair use, including distribution of course material and assignment design, this seminar shows you how to establish and implement policies to assure copyright compliance.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Civic Engagement
Civic engagement is educationally effective because students who actively apply their knowledge to real-world situations learn more academic content while also developing higher-order skills. In addition, civic engagement increases students’ interpersonal effectiveness, their ability to collaborate across diverse perspectives, and their sense of self-efficacy to make a positive difference in the world. This seminar will teach you how to make it work in your courses, regardless of the discipline you teach.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Legal Issues for Faculty: How Not to Get Sued
The college classroom has become a legal minefield. Even well-intentioned and highly ethical instructors can unwittingly expose themselves to legal liability when they follow outdated policies or fail to stay apprised of changing laws, rules, and regulations. This seminar will provide you with a working knowledge of the most relevant laws pertaining to higher education today.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Motivating Students: From Apathetic to Inspired
Modern learners have a different mind-set about education, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to learn. They just go about it differently. During this seminar, you will learn the small changes you can make to your course design and instructional methodology to better engage students and foster accountability.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Blended Learning Toolkit: Design, Deliver, Assess
This seminar will provide you with greater confidence in making the move to blended learning classroom, as well as a clear understanding of the right way to approach it, the best practices for content delivery, and the most meaningful methods of assessment and improvement.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Gamification: Applying Game Principles to Your Teaching
The principles that underpin successful games (display progress, maximize competition, calibrate difficulty carefully, provide diversions and employ narrative elements) can be used to transform student learning. You can use these principles in all types of classes to create an educational experience that puts students on a path to mastery.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Designing and Teaching a High-Impact Capstone Course
All kinds of institutions, from technical schools to public land-grant universities, are using capstone courses to give students the opportunity to synthesize and integrate everything they’ve learned. Students love the real-world, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary challenges, while academic institutions benefit from this overwhelmingly positive final educational experience. This seminar will teach you how to develop and incorporate capstone courses into your programs.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, February 28th, 2013
The Flipped Approach to a Learner-Centered Class
Moving from a lecture-based class to a flipped class requires a new set of skills. You can have the most creative assignments, the latest technology, and the most organized plan, but unless you have the skills to implement that plan, the flipped learning environment fails. This seminar will help you create a successful flipped experience for you and your students.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Beyond Coverage: Backward Design for Disciplinary Thinking
How do we find time to teach students how to think when there is so much content they need to learn? The secret lies in backward design. Backward design is a powerful way to help you clarify your learning goals, bring your assignments and exams into alignment with these goals, and better use classroom activities to cultivate the student learning that you value most.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Perfecting the Blend: Designing Blended Course Interactions
In order to realize the full potential of a blended course, a professor needs to understand how to maximize the benefits of both online and face-to-face teaching environments. In this seminar, Drs. Kelvin Thompson and Susan Wegmann share the newest, research-based techniques for improving blended courses.
Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Lecture Alternatives: Four Strategies to Engage Students
Lectures are still a valuable pedagogical tool, but sometimes lectures are more effective when you use them a little less often and intersperse them with some other tools and techniques. Even slightly shifting the balance of classes can lead to better outcomes for students and, ultimately, better evaluations for you.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, December 13th, 2012
Generate Deeper Learning through Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling is a powerful learning experience for students. This seminar uses examples to demonstrate the essential elements of teaching digital storytelling and how it can be applied to different fields. Your presenter will show you the steps for developing and implementing a digital storytelling lesson plan, as well as how to assess the outcomes of student storytelling.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
How to Implement Brain-Based Learning Strategies in Your Courses
If you think brain science isn’t part of your teaching job description, think again. Teachers deal with the neurochemistry behind student learning processes whether they want to or not. In this interactive presentation participants will gain basic knowledge of brain function with respect to learning. They will see how current teaching strategies address some of the neuroanatomical processes and how fundamental knowledge of brain structure can improve teaching strategies.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor
This 60-minute seminar will not only tell you what today’s students believe are the most essential qualities for effective teaching, but it will also prepare you to make simple and sometimes subtle changes to incorporate or develop practices and traits that resonate with students. The result? Improved academic outcomes and better course evaluations.
