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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Events
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: December 20.20.12 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.12, the December release, that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, December 17. 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 your... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: December
OnlineDescription Topic: Student Engagement One of the most common challenges we have as teachers is engaging students. The online environment makes it even more difficult; the pandemic hasn’t helped. Not too surprisingly, it came up more than once at our November Conversation with Colleagues. The topic of our December Conversation will be student engagement. Ideally,... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Inclusion Coordinators Monthly Check In: January
OnlineIn collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and implementing a plan for comprehensive set of development opportunities to help faculty members build knowledge, skills, and abilities related to equity and inclusion efforts within... Continue Reading →
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Securing your online Zoom sessions (Webinar)
OnlineDescription 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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Skills to Manage Course Dates to Improve Student Engagement (3 week short course)
OnlineJanuary 18 - February 7, 2021 Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including the Import/Export/Copy Components, Manage Dates, and Brightspace Pulse) to effectively course facilitation for student motivation. You will be provided with efficient ways to offset dates from previously offered courses, tips and... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: January
OnlineTopic HyFlex Model - Planning, Execution, and Impact: A Peek into the Lived Experiences of Instructors and Students Presenters: Jason Cussler, Becky Evan, and Nick Heisserer Description The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged educators and has disrupted the ways education is traditionally being delivered. It was almost a scene cut from a Hollywood movie, where change happened almost... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: January 20.21.01 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.21.01, the January release, that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, January 21, 2021. 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 →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Trauma Responsive Pedagogy (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Both Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP) and Trauma Responsive Practices (TRP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. Both CRP and TRP understand that when we are marginalized or overwhelmed, our learning capacity... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circles – Spring 2021 Applications Due
OnlineWhat are OER Learning Circles? Collaborate with other Minnesota State faculty from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around open educational resources (OER) and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate textbook costs for students. In addition to virtual weekly meetings, OER Learning Circles will utilize a D2L Brightspace course to support... Continue Reading →
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Applying the QM Rubric (2 week short course)
OnlineJanuary 25 - February 7, 2021 Description QM’s flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in reviewing the design of online and blended courses is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors. It is particularly helpful to those new to QM or those... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy 1 (3 week short course)
OnlineJanuary 25 - February 14, 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 introductory course, we’ll have the opportunity to... Continue Reading →
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Open Education Network Webinar
OnlineOEN Webinars introduce open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. Faculty participating in this webinar may review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200.00 honorarium once the review is completed. Registration Deadline is January 25, 2021... Continue Reading →
