20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Fall 2018 Schedule

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) offers faculty a professional development series from Magna Publications, called the 20 Minute Mentor. The goal of the 20 Minute Mentor series is to offer faculty practical professional development opportunities in twenty minute snippets that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time during the given week. Session topics cover the areas of student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online, assessment and learning goals, and classroom management.

Information on how to access the 20 Minute Mentor sessions is available each week in the Bulletin and the iDevelop e-newsletter.

New video presentations (with supplementary materials) go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. 

The following sessions are on the schedule for fall 2018. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• August 27 - How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?
• September 3 - How Can I Promote Enrollment and Retention in Challenging Courses that Motivate Instead of Frustrate?
• September 10 - What are Five Tips for Creating Videos that Promote Knowledge and Expand My Reach?
• September 17 - How Will OER Benefit the 21st Century Student?
• September 24 - How Can Livestreaming Bring New Life to My Teaching?
• October 1 - What is Gamification and How Can it Promote a Growth Mindset?
• October 8 - How Can the Three C's of Course Design Enhance Students' Online Performance?
• October 15 - How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
• October 22 - How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
• October 29 - How Can I Resolve Difficult Situations in the Classroom?
• November 5 - How Should I Manage My Online Course?
• November 12 - How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
• November 19 - How Can I Gain Valuable Insight from Course Evaluations?
• November 26 - How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class?
• December 3 - How Can Talking through Course Evaluations Improve my Teaching?
• December 10 - How Can Promoting Academic Integrity Improve Learning Outcomes for Students?

We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu.