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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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 11 - July 31, 2022 Short Course Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end... Continue Reading →
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Introduction to Antiracist Pedagogy: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 18 - August 7, 2022 Short Course Course Learning Objectives Through engaging in the work of the training, faculty will be able to: Define antiracist pedagogy as an individual... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 18 - August 7, 2022 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 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... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 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,... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 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... Continue Reading →
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D2L: Improving Student to Content interaction: Summer 2022
OnlineAugust 1 - August 21, 2022 Short Course Description By the end of this three week short course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Content, HTML... Continue Reading →
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Grade Smarter Not Harder: Summer 2022
OnlineAugust 1 - August 21, 2022 Short Course (This course was previously titled Improving Online Assessments) Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Fall 2022
OnlineOER Learning Circles Fall 2022 September 26 - December 4 Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing,... Continue Reading →
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Creating Accessible Course Documents: Fall 2022
OnlineAugust 29 - September 18, 2022 Short Course Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course will introduce participants to basic techniques for using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint. Additionally,... Continue Reading →
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D2L: Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction: Fall 2022
OnlineSeptember 6 - September 25, 2022 Short Course Description By the end of this three week short course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Content, HTML Editor, and Release Conditions) to improve the student-to-content interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101: Fall 2022
OnlineSeptember 12 - October 23, 2022 Short Course Description This six week 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... Continue Reading →
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