Back to School with Achieve!

with Dr. Christin Monroe, Landmark College & Jennifer Duncan, Perimeter College at Georgia State University

Join us for our annual kick-off meet up, "Back to School with Achieve"! In this webinar, instructors get a basic tour of Achieve, then a showcase of new features in Achieve with our Senior Digital Support Specialist Travis Long.

Next, two of our Macmillan Learning Advocate professors will discuss how they use Achieve in their unique classrooms. We’ll be joined by Dr. Christin Monroe for a discussion of how she uses Achieve to accommodate her students. Next, Jennifer Duncan, will discuss using Achieve’s writing tools with draft goals to set up scaffolded assignments.

The webinar will end with Q&A, so come ready with your questions and to see the latest and greatest of what Achieve has to offer you and your students this new academic year!

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Back to School with iClicker!

with Dr. Justin Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines & Jennifer Ripley Stueckle, West Virginia University

Join us for our annual kick off meet up, "Back to School with iClicker"! In this webinar, instructors will get a basic tour of iClicker, then a tour of new features with Customer Support Specialist, Natalie Dougall.

This will be followed by a discussion of best practices with iClicker, led by two of our Macmillan Learning advocate professors. We’ll hear from Justin Shaffer who will discuss best practices for writing “modern” iClicker questions, then Jennifer Ripley Stueckle for a discussion of how she manages the nuts-and-bolts of running iClicker in a 200+ student classroom.

The webinar will end with a Q&A, so come ready to see the latest and greatest of what iClicker has to offer you and your students this new academic year.

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Digital Tools in the Post-Covid Age: Using "Read and Practice" to Foster Mental and Emotional Health Among College Students

with Vaughn Scribner, University of Central Arkansas

In this webinar, Dr. Vaughn Scribner explains how Read and Practice helped him to empathize with students and help them with their mental well-being during Covid, and how he plans on integrating these findings in the post-Covid landscape.

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Using iClicker to Reflect on Your Lesson Plans

with Natalie Dougall & Lindsey Thomas

Your students have learned so much from your iClicker sessions-- now it’s your turn! Watch this discussion of ways you can take your iClicker sessions and turn them into actionable feedback. We’ll explore how you can use your iClicker Attendance, Polling and Exit Poll data to help yourself teach smarter, not harder.

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Scaffolding Assignments to Build Success

with Jennifer Duncan

Properly scaffolded and sequenced assignments not only improve student work but increase equity in education. By creating assignments that increase opportunities for feedback and focus on process as well as end product, instructors can increase success - especially for at risk students.

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Using iClicker for Habit Building

with Natalie Dougall & Lindsey Thomas

Join us for our latest webinar where we explore how you can use iClicker with your students in a way that helps them improve their habits both in and out of the classroom.

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Connecting with Students To Improve Learning

with Dr. Michael Poulakis, University of Indianapolis & Marcy Baughman, Macmillan Learning

When you first meet your class, whether online or in-person, you likely know little about each individual student. How can you learn about them, in order to help them succeed in your class and in college generally? Dr. Michael Poulakis will share his experience with the Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys in Achieve and Marcy Baughman will talk about the data she and her team have captured about students using these surveys.

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Setting a Pace for Success

with Erika Martinez, University of South Florida

Incentivizing students to 'touch the material' multiple times a week leads to increased effective learning and retention, and ultimately higher levels of student success. Hear how this approach has changed Prof. Martinez's class for the better.

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Creating Community with iClicker

with Lindsey Thomas Barranca & Natalie Dougall

iClicker democratizes the classroom, raising all voices to the same level, allowing every student to participate in class discussion. Join us for a webinar where we discuss ways you can use iClicker in your classroom to bring your students together easily and effectively.

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Practical Tips for Improving First-Year Equity Outcomes

with Debi Rutledge, Rochester University & Phoenix Harvey, Macmillan Learning

This webinar discusses tips and tools to maximize student engagement including brief student readiness self-assessments and maximize student input before, during, and after class discussions.

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Back to Class with Achieve
with Travis Long & Leslie Allen-Essex

It's almost time to bring your students back to campus! Achieve makes it easy to create a welcoming, interactive classroom. This webinar is for Achieve users, old and new, who want to know what's new with Achieve and get a tour of features like Goal Setting and Reflection Surveys and iClicker integration, as well as see the new improvements to the Gradebook and Reports and Insights. We’ll also discuss ways you can use these resources in your classroom, whether it’s a traditional brick-and-mortar classroom or a hybrid approach.

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Back to Campus: iClicker
with Natalie Dougall & Amanda Norbutus

It's almost time to bring your students back to campus! iClicker makes it easy to create a welcoming, interactive classroom. This webinar is for iClicker users, old and new, who want to know what's new with iClicker and get a tour of features like updated quizzing functionality and our new Groups feature. We’ll also discuss ways you can use iClicker in your classroom, whether it’s a traditional brick-and-mortar classroom or a hybrid approach.

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Using Remote Response for Peer Learning
with Kiandra Johnson

Kiandra Johnson demonstrates how she uses remote response (in her case, iClicker) to facilitate just-in-time learning.

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iClicker & Achieve: Active Learning in the Biology Classroom
with Natalie Dougall & Jim Zubricky

Join us for a tour of the Achieve environment and learn ways you can use iClicker and Achieve in your biology classroom.

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Academic Life Skills: Support Students From Academics to Adulting
with Amanda Norbutus

This webinar will discuss how to incorporate and evaluate student self-reflection surveys to bridge the knowledge gap, improve student learning outcomes, as well as enhance students’ “adulting" skills.

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Engagement as a Matter of Equity: Fostering student engagement for improved equity and inclusion
with Edna Ross & Emily Ravenwood

This session, co-presented by an educator and instructional technologist, will explore pandemic-era lessons that can help you create and deliver more inclusive and equitable learning experiences for every student.

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Encouraging Growth Mindsets with Active Learning
with Natalie Dougall

Using iClicker for active learning is perfect for classroom activities that encourage a growth mindset, helping students learn resilience and flexibility along with your subject matter. Join us to discuss activities that can jumpstart your students’ growth mindset!

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iClicker & Achieve: Active Learning in the Chemistry Classroom
with Natalie Dougall & Mike Varela

Join us for a tour of the Achieve environment and learn ways you can use iClicker and Achieve in your chemistry classroom.

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iClicker & Achieve: Active Learning in the English Classroom
with Natalie Dougall & Lindsey Green

Join us for a tour of the Achieve environment and learn ways you can use iClicker and Achieve in your English classroom.

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iClicker & Achieve: Active Learning in the Math/Stats Classroom
with Natalie Dougall & Carie Crosby

Learn how iClicker and Achieve together can deliver new insights into mathematics class performance and comprehension.

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Creating Community with iClicker

with Lindsey Thomas Barranca & Natalie Dougall

The sooner your students come together as a community, the sooner they can get to the serious work of learning. iClicker democratizes the classroom, raising all voices to the same level, allowing every student to participate in class discussion. Join us for a webinar where we discuss ways you can use iClicker in your classroom to bring your students together easily and effectively.

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Supercharge Student Interventions amid a 'Hy-flex' Fall

with Mandy Shaffer

This webinar discusses tips and tools to maximize student interventions beyond what you may already be doing.

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Insights and Lessons on College Students’ Sense of Belonging During Covid-19

with Matt Venaas

We discuss challenges and lessons learned during the pandemic related to building community and belonging using an existing framework of four key elements of belonging.

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Student Lifecycle Assessment Strategies: Early Alerts, Interventions, and Improving Student Outcomes

with Mandy Shaffer & Glenn Skaggs

This session will demonstrate how to improve institutional outcomes by pairing brief retention surveys that offer early alerts with program assessment that measures the impact of your team’s interventions.

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Perseverance during Pandemic: Lessons from 2021 Assessment and Impact Award Nursing Winners

with Matt Venaas

This webinar features lessons and tips gleaned from the 2021 winners of Skyfactor's Assessment and Impact Award for Nursing.

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Best Laid Assessment Plans, Meet Global Pandemic: Assessment, Agility, & Action

with Elizabeth Wallace

Join to explore how to use easily-delivered analytics to manage and evaluate your orientation program amid significant changes in the future whether it’s massive enrollment growth, NCAA division changes, or yes, a global pandemic.

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Terminator or Transformer: ChatGPT Has Arrived in Our Classrooms. What Now?

with Elizabeth Losh, Stuart Selber & Jonathan Bratt

In this interdisciplinary webinar, a panel of educators and technology enthusiasts will take on some of the biggest questions about ChatGPT and its impact on teaching and learning. Join the Macmillan Learning team and the expert panel for a conversation about the effective use of generative AI applications, the ethical implications of emerging technologies, and how education might adapt to a changing world.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How You Can Do It!

with Debi Rutledge & Robert Martin

Culturally responsive teaching uses students' own customs, characteristics, experiences, and perspectives as tools for better classroom instruction. This allows more students of all backgrounds to see themselves and their communities as belonging in academic spaces. Join Debi Rutledge for a discussion of why this is so crucial and how you can start applying culturally responsive teaching methods to your course today!

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Why This Class Matters: From Discovering to Doing

with Marissa Dahari

For many students, school is not an objective in and of itself. Rather, it is a step on the road to their futures. By emphasizing how the class supports those future goals, instructors help students see why their course matters. Students can move from first discovering a new skill or concept to applying it in real world situations. Join a panel of faculty advocates to discuss how teaching with applications motivates students and helps them keep their eyes on the prize.

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Ask an Author! Building a Bridge between Classroom and Career

with Kevin Revell, Stacey Cochran & Paul Gore

As instructors your goal is not just to help students see the beauty of your discipline, but to help prepare them for their lives in the wider world. Students benefit when they see how skills and content they are learning in the classroom might be applied in their jobs and in their lives. Join our interdisciplinary panel of Macmillan authors to learn practical tips for showcasing the connections between the classroom and students' future careers.

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Using Digital Tools to Encourage Human Connection

with Mollie Anderson, Germán Rosas-Acosta & Suzanne McCormack

With online homework, hybrid classrooms, and virtual lessons it can be a challenge to feel connected to your students. But technology doesn't have to divide you! Join this webinar to hear how our panel of faculty advocates use digital tools to feel closer to their students than ever.

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Ask an Author! How to Build Stronger Connections between Instructors and Students

with James Morris & Betsy Barefoot

It can be disheartening to speak to a sea of blank faces or black Zoom screens. Meaningful connections between instructors and students are at the core of the educational experience, and for many of us, the very reason we teach! Join an interdisciplinary panel of Macmillan authors for a conversation on the importance of instructor and student connections and practical tips for helping to forge that bond.

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Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning with Technology

with Jennifer Duncan, Kiandra Johnson & Justin Shaffer

Join our interdisciplinary panel of Macmillan faculty advocates for a discussion on how they help students to connect and learn with each other, in and out of the classroom. They will share practical tips, best practices, and some of their favorite peer-to peer moments.

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Reconsidering the Value of Education

with Matt Sanders

College enrollments have declined steadily in recent years with hundreds of thousands of prospective students choosing not to pursue a degree. Students have to weigh the cost of college against the value they’ll take away from it. We all have a role to play in helping students realize the greatest possible value from their investment in their education. Join the Macmillan Learning team and a panel of experts for a conversation about what an education offers students, the decisions they have to weigh, and how we can work to provide value to every student.

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Meeting Students Where They Are: Using Technology to Make Learning Accessible and Engaging

with Tyler DeWitt, Educational Technology Innovator, Macmillan Learning Author

It's frustrating that education—particularly science education—can be incredibly painful and disengaging for so many learners. Tyler DeWitt, creator of one of the most popular instructional channels on YouTube and video author of Macmillan's Interactive General Chemistry, is a fervent believer that new technologies and digital content, meticulously built and thoughtfully deployed, are our best bets for creating accessible educational experiences that scale. This webinar will focus on how we can use technology to make education more engaging and accessible, which allows us to connect with students wherever their learning is happening.

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Addressing and Preventing Bias in Educational Technology

with Marcy Baughman, Macmillan Learning & Phoenix Harvey, Macmillan Learning

A panel of experts and the Macmillan Learning team discuss how to avoid bias in educational technology. What you’ll take away: Examples and impact of bias in educational technology; Tips for identifying equitably developed content and technology; Teaching tips for using technology to improve equity outcomes in your courses.

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How WE Achieve: Using Goal Setting and Reflection Surveys to Create Closer Connections with Students

with Mollie Anderson, University of Memphis

Dr. Mollie Anderson shares how she uses the Goal Setting and Reflection Surveys in Achieve. These surveys not only boost student metacognitive and study skills, they also provide instructors deep insight into student demographics and needs--in their own words. Mollie describes how she uses this data to empathize with her students, tailor her teaching to suit the unique makeup of each class, and even intervene with individual students when they need her help the most. You'll come away from this webinar with ideas for how you can use Goal Setting and Reflection surveys in your own class to create closer connections with students than ever.

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Teaching in Stereo: Strategies for Class Participation

with Derek Bruff Educator and Author, Agile Learning

A year of teaching on Zoom showed faculty that having students participate using their voices isn’t the only meaningful kind of participation. How can we take a more inclusive, accessible approach to class participation in our classrooms, whether they’re virtual or in person? In this workshop, we’ll consider principles and practices to turn our classes into learning communities where students can learn from and with each other.

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Emphasizing Academic Integrity in Every Classroom

with Camilla Roberts, Kansas State University, Cindy Albert, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire & Timothy C. Powers, Texas A&M University

New tools have created countless ways for students to cheat – and growing academic and socio-economic pressures have created more reasons for them to do so. some they might not even realize are dishonest. Join the Macmillan Learning team and a panel of experts for a conversation about mitigating cheating by fostering strong academic integrity in students.

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Promoting Critical Thinking Through Active Learning

with AJ Metz, University of Utah, John Pollard, University of Arizona, Matt Evans, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire & Jamie Shushan, Harvard University

Research has consistently shown that active learning strategies require students to use and even develop higher-order thinking skills. Bringing active learning into the classroom can have many benefits, including the ability to help students build and reinforce critical thinking skills. Join the Macmillan Learning team and a panel of active learning experts for a conversation about using active learning strategies to help students analyze information and creatively solve problems.

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How to use iClicker and Tech Tools to Build Connection with Students and Keep your Sanity

with Solina Lindahl

Let’s be real: it’s a stressful time to teach. It’s also a stressful time to learn. Connection is more important than ever. Learn how to re-invigorate your class with a few simple tech tools and practices.

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Practical Tips for Improving First-Year Equity Outcomes

with Debi Rutledge, Rochester University & Phoenix Harvey, Macmillan Learning

This session will demonstrate how first-year experience programs can pair brief retention surveys that offer early alerts for better, more targeted interventions, with student response systems to engage all students in meaningful ways inside and outside of the classroom, including creating safe spaces and encouraging participation and event attendance, which can create community and foster a sense of belonging.

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Mental Health in the Era of COVID-19

with Jon Comer, Florida International University

Join Jonathan S. Comer, the renowned best-selling co-author of Abnormal Psychology and Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, as he reviews the rapidly growing body of research on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the state of mental health and its treatment.

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Returning to Normal? What we should keep from pandemic teaching: Faculty Perspective
with Heidi Harris & Rebecca Glazier

In the first of a two-part series, we examine these questions and relevant data points from the faculty perspective.

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Returning to Normal? What we should keep from pandemic teaching: Student Perspective
with Heidi Harris & Rebecca Glazier

In the second of a two-part series, we look at student perspectives and findings as we talk about what comes next.

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Normal Sucks: Strategies for At Risk and Neurodiverse Learners
with Jonathan Mooney

Taken from the title of his latest book - Normal Sucks is a deeply personal and professional roadmap for teaching and learning for students who don’t fit the definition of academically normal students.

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