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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  • Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction: Spring 2024

    March 25 - April 14, 2024 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 instructor-to-student interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Collecting and Analyzing Classroom Data: Spring 2024

    April 1- April 21, 2024 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature review of the topic. From there, participants will explore evidence approaches (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods), select an appropriate tool from that evidence approach, determine the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Grade Smarter Not Harder (Summer 2024)

    May 28 - June 16 Short Course Description  Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you’ll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz and... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Applying Templates in D2L Brightspace (Summer 2024)

    May 29 - June 16, 2024 Short Course Description Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or an experienced user of D2L Brightspace, you can use the pre-formatted HTML Templates and Course Template as starting points when designing a new course or re-designing an existing course. The templates provide you with example materials... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Classroom Inquiry and IRB (Summer 2024)

    June 3 - June 23, 2024 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of equity and ethics. In doing so, participants will review what counts as valid and reliable data and two major approaches to make sense of different... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity 101 (Summer 2024)

    July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we... Continue Reading →

    Free

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