The NED was established to provide 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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Equity 101 1: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
August 30 – September 19, 2021 Description This course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect our values and worldview (especially... Continue Reading →
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Faculty Development Series (session 1) 2021-22
Faculty Development Series (session 1) 2021-22
Educational Development Opportunities: Integrate, leverage, align, & network Learn about the opportunities available through the Network for Educational Development (NED). Review the ways in which campuses leverage the NED to support their campus opportunities. By integrating NED opportunities on your campus, you can align institutional and system strategic priorities. Perhaps most importantly, meet other individuals... Continue Reading →
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Creative Commons Certificate: Registration Deadline Fall 2021
The Creative Commons Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. The course is composed of readings, quizzes, discussions and practical exercises to develop learners’ open skills. Minnesota State system office will support up to ten seats for the CC Certificate for Librarians or the CC Certificate for Educators. This... Continue Reading →
Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
September 7 – September 26, 2021 Description You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of this three–week course you will be able to identify and... Continue Reading →
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Manage Course Dates on a Single Screen
Manage Course Dates on a Single Screen
Description The Start, End, and Due dates from most tools in D2L Brightspace can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each individual tool and opening each individual item to change dates, you can use Manage Dates to view all dates at once, with filtering, sorting and... Continue Reading →
Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication with Private Discussions
Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication with Private Discussions
Description Private discussions have multiple uses in Brightspace. You can communicate with students one-on-one, keep track of student to instructor communication, and encourage students to keep a reflective journal. You can use private discussions as a means of aiding reflection, deepening students understanding, and stimulating critical thinking. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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Securing Your Online Zoom Session​
Securing Your Online Zoom Session​
Description Explore best practices in securely scheduling, managing and distributing information about virtual sessions in Zoom. Zoom has implemented new security features and in meeting controls to allow hosts to manage the potential threats that could impacted unsecure sessions. In this 50 minute webinar we will look at the new Security Control center and offer... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
September 13 - October 3, 2021 Description This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master. Here is what participants will do in this course: Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course... Continue Reading →
Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
September 13 - October 3, 2021 Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Classlist, Email, Intelligent Agents, personalized Announcements, and private Discussions) to improve instructor-to-student interactions.  You will be provided with efficient ways to email students, tips and tricks to personalize communication for students,... Continue Reading →
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Faculty Learning Community Fall 2021
September 13 - December 5, 2021 Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the opportunity to examine... Continue Reading →
What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2021
What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2021
Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the September 2021 release (version 20.21.09) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, September 16. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Leveraging the Groups tool for greater student interaction
Leveraging the Groups tool for greater student interaction
Description Discover various ways to leverage the Groups tool to allow students to choose their own small groups or to randomly place students in groups. Use the groups tool in... Continue Reading →
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Create Rubrics to Evaluate Student Work
Create Rubrics to Evaluate Student Work
Description Learn how to create rubrics in Brightspace to provide students with the components on which they will be evaluated prior to them submitting their work. An established rubric with... Continue Reading →
Open Education Network Webinar
Open Education Network Webinar
Open Education Network (OEN) Webinars introduce Minnesota State faculty and staff to open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. After the OEN Webinar, attendance will be taken. Attendees will receive a link to review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library... Continue Reading →
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Using Existing Rubrics to Save Time Evaluating Student Work
Using Existing Rubrics to Save Time Evaluating Student Work
Description Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Discover various ways to align grading rubrics... Continue Reading →
Conversations with Colleagues: September 2021
Conversations with Colleagues: September 2021
Description When colleagues readied themselves for emergency remote teaching in 2020, we all received a powerful reminder in the value of social learning. Colleagues from across the system who had... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning 2
Designing Your Course for Student Learning 2
Description Spend some time creating aligned module objectives for your class! In this 1 hour webinar, we will go through a brief overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, practice writing learning objectives... Continue Reading →
Is Time an Issue? Finding Accessible Materials
Is Time an Issue? Finding Accessible Materials
Description You want to teach with accessible online materials, but don't really know where to look. Here's a chance to see some options, and to share with others something that you have found! There are some wonderful online materials out there. We will explore just a few, and give you ideas of where you might... Continue Reading →
OER FAQ: September 2021
OER FAQ: September 2021
Description In this webinar, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more! Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. View all OER Events. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool... Continue Reading →
Creating an Inviting Digital Learning Space with Zoom
Creating an Inviting Digital Learning Space with Zoom
Description Virtual spaces still provide opportunities to personalize and humanize the learning environment. When facilitating sessions outside of a traditional setting, we need to be aware of techniques to share new expectations while easing anxiety around participants’ ability to successfully engage with the technology. In this 50 minute webinar we will explore ways to support... Continue Reading →
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Integrating Retrieval Practice: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
September 27 - October 17, 2021 Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve through deliberate recall of skills and knowledge, spaced out over time, and reviewed along with other concepts. More than 100 years of educational research in both the... Continue Reading →
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Critical Directions for Equity Professional Development
Critical Directions for Equity Professional Development
In partnership with the Office of Equity and Inclusion Description Across the landscape of higher education, there is a growing need and desire for professional development in the areas of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). This webinar engages this need by discussing fundamental considerations of EDI professional development and provides information about training opportunities offered... Continue Reading →
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Librarian Workdays 2021: Ignite Affordable Education
Librarian Workdays 2021: Ignite Affordable Education
Academic librarians are critical partners in efforts to provide open educational resources (OER) for both students and faculty.  Educational Innovations is happy to announce two virtual opportunities for librarians and library staff from across Minnesota State campuses to come together for a day to network with colleagues, learn more about OER efforts across the system, and identify how librarians can... Continue Reading →
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