Webinars

Description Learn to use the Quiz Submission Views in D2L Brightspace to enhance student learning. Determine the best settings to provide students with quiz feedback in a timely and effective... Continue Reading →

Description Copy Course Components is a tool in D2L Brightspace that enables you to copy materials from your existing courses into another course. When copying components, you can choose all... Continue Reading →

Description Pressbooks is a software made available for free to residents of Minnesota by the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project.  We will take some time to look through a couple of sample textbooks, and learn the basics about how to use Pressbooks.  Adding OER materials to the software will create a textbook-like layout, and allow you... Continue Reading →

Description The date settings in Discussions will soon be changing significantly. This webinar will provide an overview of what’s changing and how the changes correlate to the current settings, with a proactive effort toward making this as smooth a transition as possible. This webinar will be repeated in December, please register for one that fits... Continue Reading →

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 →

Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the November 2021 release (version 20.21.11) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, November 18. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register.  After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to... Continue Reading →

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 →

Description In Patrick Parrish and Jennifer A. Linder-VanBerschot’s article “Cultural Dimensions of Learning: Addressing the Challenges of Multicultural Instruction” from the journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (2010), they describe a construct for understanding how our cultures influence the way we prefer to learn. Key to us as educators is how... Continue Reading →

Description The date settings in Discussions will soon be changing significantly. This webinar will provide an overview of what’s changing and how the changes correlate to the current settings, with a proactive effort toward making this as smooth a transition as possible. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register.  After registering, a calendar invite with... Continue Reading →

Topic: Introduction to Open Pedagogy Open pedagogy allows students to assist with the creation and delivery of course content. Lori-Beth Larsen and Karen Pikula will share their open pedagogy-related knowledge and experiences. Karen will define and cover some of the history of open pedagogy and touch on its benefits and challenges for faculty and students. Lori-Beth... Continue Reading →

Description At Lake Superior College, Kelli Hallsten Erickson and Amy Jo Swing, faculty members and coordinators in the Center for Faculty Innovation, take anonymous questions from faculty about instruction and answer them on recorded Zoom sessions: everything from current Covid-19 protocols to how to get silent students to participate in class. For this session, Kelli... Continue Reading →