Short Courses

March 24 - April 13, 2025 Short Course Description Learn to apply an equity lens to your teaching with technology. This course is an introduction to the principles of Universal... Continue Reading →

March 31 - April 27, 2025 Short Course Description This four-week short course is designed to build foundational skills and knowledge for engaging in the Equity by Design methodology. Equity... Continue Reading →

April 7 - April 27, 2025 Short Course Description  Enhance your teaching toolkit with this 3-week course focused on regular and substantive interaction (What is regular and substantive interaction?). You'll... Continue Reading →

April 14 - May 4, 2025 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown,... Continue Reading →

May 19 - June 8, 2025 Short Course Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended?  In this course, you’ll get an opportunity... Continue Reading →

May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license.  It is easy to use and provides... Continue Reading →

May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course Description  This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course... Continue Reading →

June 9 - June 29, 2025 Short Course Description  This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen... Continue Reading →

July 7 - July 27, 2025 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →

July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature review of the topic. From there, participants will explore evidence approaches (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods), select an appropriate tool from that evidence approach, determine... Continue Reading →

July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description This short 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... Continue Reading →