20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Spring 2020 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 spring 2020. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below.

• January 27th – What is the Best Teaching Advice I Ever Received?
• February 3rd – How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
• February 10th – How Can I Cost-Effectively Use Virtual Reality to Enhance Instruction?
• February 17th – How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?
• February 24th – What Technology and Tools Do I Need to Create a Podcast for My Students?
• March 2nd – How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed?
• March 9th – How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
• March 16th – How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
• March 23rd – What Teaching Strategies Help Engage All Learners Online?
• March 30th – How Do I Master Mastery Grading?
• April 6th – How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
• April 13th – How Do I Lead Change from the Middle?
• April 20th – How Can Universities Empower Adult Learners?
• April 27th – How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
• May 4th – How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
• May 11th – How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?

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