The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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Foundations of Teaching Online for Deans (Summer 2025)
June 2 – August 3, 2025
(Break 6/30 – 7/6)
Long Course
The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences for their students, and deans evaluate online experiences from a student perspective. Participants will learn about quality standards in online course design and the basic principles of backwards design and alignment. In addition, they will be introduced to strategies that create a welcoming, accessible, and collaborative environment where all learners can succeed.
The class is split into two groups: a faculty track and a dean track.
While some course experiences will be together, many assignments will be targeted to different campus roles. Register for the Faculty Track Summer 2025.
Course Learning Objectives – Dean Track
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe key components of quality course design
- Compare two different sets of online course evaluation standards
- Evaluate a course for alignment
- Evaluate a course for evidence of humanizing strategies and student-friendly navigation
- Demonstrate ability to use D2L and academic technology tools through practice and/or review of examples/best practices
- Identify elements that improve the accessibility of course materials including documents, webpages, and media
From the Facilitators
Direct link to FOTO Welcome Video 2025
Suggested Audience
Minnesota State college and university deans.
Estimated Time Commitment
Most participants are able to complete this course by committing 4-6 hours per week.
Reflect on your Professional Development
As you progress through this course, please consider how you can use the assignments as a way to highlight your work on your Professional Development Plan. Consider sharing your work with your leadership team.
Course Location
This course is hosted and facilitated using shared D2L Brightspace instance of Minnesota State called, MnSite.
Registration Required
Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite will be sent to you as a reminder of the course start date. Please add this event to your calendar.
Accommodations
The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we’d like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so you can fully participate!
Machine generated captions are available in real-time for all Zoom events, however human generated CART (live caption) service and ASL interpretation can be requested with advanced notice (2 weeks) to make the event more accessible.
Please, let us know of any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate your full participation.
Questions?
Contact the Network for Educational Development.
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