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 2023. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below.
- August 21 - How Can I Use AI to Draft Course Materials
- August 28 - What Are 14 Strategies to Take My Teaching Career from Good to Great?
- September 4 - How Can I Use the Discussion Board to Stimulate Engagement and Build Confidence for First-Year Students?
- September 11 - How Can I Create Assessments to Effectively Measure Student Learning?
- September 18 - How Can I Harness the Power of Story to Create a Classroom Community?
- September 25 - How Do I Strat Using VR as a Tool for Instruction?
- October 2 - How Can I Introduce Creativity to My Classes to Build Connection with Students?
- October 9 - How Can Intentionally Create a Course that Boosts Learning and Decreases Stress?
- October 16 - How Can I Use AI as a Student Writing and Editing Coach?
- October 23 - How I Can Move from Supporting to Empowering Trans-spectrum Students?
- October 30 - What Do I Need to Know to Get My Podcast Started November 6 - How Can I Use Podcasts to Enhance Course Content and Increase Engagement?
- November 13 - How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?
- November 20 - How Can I Create a Tutoring Library Using Podcasts and Videos from My Course?
- November 27 - How Can I Pace DEI Work to See Subtle Gains Now and Significant Gains in the Future?
- December 4 - How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?
We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu.
