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

• September 7 - How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning?
• September 14 - Why Should I Migrate from Traditional Resources to OER in My Courses?
  
• September 21 - How Can I Get Students to Engage with Course Content Before Class?
  
• September 28 -  How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes?
  
• October 5 - How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
  
• October 12 - How Can Screencasted Feedback Enhance Student Comprehension?
  
• October 19 - How Can I Use Technology to Foster the Emotional Processing of Course Content?
• October 26 - How Do I Go Beyond the Basics of Universal Design for Learning?
  
• November 2 - How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users’ Guide?
• November 11 - How Do I Infuse Equity into Any Online Class?
  
• November 16 - What are 3 Keys to Teaching Intercultural Competence?
• November 23 - How Can I Build Engagement in My Online Classes Through Student-created Video?
• November 30 - What is the Best Scholarship Advice I Ever Received?
• December 7 - How Can I Repurpose My Content into Videos That Get Viewed (and Shared)?

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