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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Six Ways to Improve Learning with Retrieval Practice: Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Improve learning with retrieval practice teaching methods! Learn six practical strategies for your online courses that use retrieval to enhance academic achievement and long-term learning. Outcomes: Define retrieval practice... Continue Reading →
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Update on Guided Learning Pathways – Practice Alignment Assessment Results (Webinar)
OnlineApproved by the Minnesota State Board of Trustees in November 2020 after a three-year collaborative development process, the Minnesota State Guided Learning Pathways Framework (GLP Framework) is an enterprise-level student... Continue Reading →
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The Complicated History of Latinx/Latine Students and Schooling (Webinar)
OnlineDescription We will use empathy to understand the impact of the many conditions that have resulted in the miseducation of Latinx/Latine students. In addition, participants will learn about the multiple... Continue Reading →
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Improving Your Online Course: Summer 2021 (2 week short course)
OnlineJuly 19 - August 1, 2021 Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the Quality Matters Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 19 - August 8, 2021 Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments,... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 26 - August 15, 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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Humanizing Your Online Course 2: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 26 - August 15, 2021 Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no... Continue Reading →
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Integrating Retrieval Practice: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 26 - August 15, 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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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineAugust 2 - August 22, 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... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning for Manufacturing and Construction Faculty (3 week short course)
OnlineAugust 2 - August 22, 2021 Flyer Description Faculty members teaching within the discipline of manufacturing and/or construction are invited to join colleagues in this three-week short course to explore... Continue Reading →
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Catch Up on What’s New in D2L Brightspace May – July 2021
OnlineDescription Get up to date on all the changes to D2L Brightspace that were implemented over the summer of 2021. This session will include updates that occurred from May 2021-July 2021. (The August update features will be covered in the "What's New" session on Monday, August 16). RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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Creating Authentic Assessments (Webinar)
OnlineAuthentic assessments are creative assessments to test student skills and behaviors -- case studies, role plays, and simulations are common examples of this testing technique. This webinar will help participants devise interesting and fun ways to better assess whether students are able to put new skills into practice in realistic scenarios, using readily available tools... Continue Reading →
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