NED Events Calendar

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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  • Creative Commons Basics

    Online

    Are you interested in sharing your work with the world as an open educational resource? Have you heard about Creative Commons licenses but want to learn more about how they... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • What’s New in D2L Brightspace: July 2022 (20.22.07)

    Online

    This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the July 2022 release (version 20.22.07) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, July 21. 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Creating a Culturally Responsive Syllabus

    Online

    The course syllabus is, as William Germano and Kit Nicholls note in their subtitle of their 2020 book Syllabus, “The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything.” So, it’s the middle of the semester, but it’s never too soon to be thinking about how you might consider elements within the syllabus that can remove barriers to... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Empathy by Design: Summer 2022

    Online

    July 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course (This short course was previously titled Humanizing Your Online Course) 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2022

    Online

    July 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course Description  Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2022

    Online

    July 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Logins and Captions and Breakouts, Oh My!

    Online

    A look at common issues in Zoom and how to avoid them. Has anyone ever entered your room without your permission when you thought you had the waiting room enabled? Want to know why some students can choose their own Breakout rooms and others can't? Do you want to create an equitable learning experience for... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Finding and Using Open Educational Resources

    Online

    Looking for that perfect image to insert into your PowerPoint slide? Searching for a soundtrack for your course welcome video? If you mix Creative Commons licensed work into your own creations, how do you cite that work? Can you share copies of it? In this webinar, we will explore some popular repositories of Creative Commons... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Applying Content Page Templates in D2L Brightspace 2

    Online

    This webinar will demonstrate how you can use the pre-formatted HTML templates as a starting point for creating Content pages in D2L Brightspace. The templates provide you with example materials and page layouts that you may copy and edit as appropriate for your needs. This webinar walks through the steps of selecting and revising the... Continue Reading →

    Free

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