Magna Learning Center
This extensive digital library of on-demand programs provides teachers with a collection of practical pedagogical topics that address their diverse needs in the classroom.
Category: Teachers
Teaching Strategies and Assignments for Blended and Flipped Classrooms
Receive actionable strategies to effectively make the transition to a blended
On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 
The 10+ specific techniques presented in this online seminar will help you keep student learning on track.
Using Active Listening to Deepen Student Engagement in Live Remote Classes
This online seminar will provide multiple proven strategies for teaching active listening across various online teaching formats.
What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
This 20-Minute Mentor provides three areas for teachers to improve with discussion boards: engagement, community, and expertise, and specific strategies for doing so.
Blended and Flipped Course Design: Tried and True Approaches
This program gets you started in blended learning methods, especially the flipped classroom, and how they impact student learning.
Taking My Career to the Next Level: Educational Consulting
This online seminar provides guidance about why and how to execute a career change from a former educator now leading a successful consulting practice.
How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
This 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for educators to guide student note-taking, specifically in the online classroom.
How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
This 20-Minute Mentor provides many ideas specific to online and remote teaching for activities, assignments, and assessments that gauge learning.
How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching to Spark Student Engagement?
This 20-Minute Mentor gives practical ideas for engaging students immediately with games, activities, or polls.
Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching
This special two-part Magna Online Seminar provides actionable ideas and tools for teaching with a trauma-sensitive approach.
How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
This 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable advice on creating questions that promote critical thinking and generate meaningful discussion.
How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
This 20-Minute Mentor gives actionable ideas on how to make short, engaging videos that will align with the way students learn online.
What Are 5 Easy-To-Use Technologies That Have A Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
This 20-Minute Mentor describes five technologies, including the appropriate application and benefits of each, to create a personalized, interactive, impactful, and engaging learning experience.
How Can I Create a Meaningful Online Learning Experience for Students?
This 20-Minute Mentor shows the benefits of a learning paradigm (vs. a teaching paradigm) in the online classroom.
“Help! I’m Moving My Course Online!”– Practical Advice for New Online Instructors
This Magna Online Seminar gives you practical advice about need-to-have basics for quickly and successfully transitioning your class online, from an experienced online educator.
Learning from Pandemic Pedagogy: Best Practices for a Quick and Inclusive Transition to Online Teaching
This Magna Online Seminar will assist in pedagogy for course conversion as well as help with inclusive practices that might have been overlooked.
Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
The best classes start with the end in mind. What will students learn or be able to do by the end of your class?
Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using Emotion Science
This online seminar presents practical strategies for putting the power of emotions to work in online classes to help capture and hold students’ attention.
Maximizing Student Engagement with Course Readings
This Magna Online Seminar will introduce four methods for increasing your students’ engagement with class readings.