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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Equity by Design Onboarding: Spring 2024
OnlineApril 1 - April 28, 2024 Short Course Description This four-week short course is designed to build foundational skills and knowledge for engaging in the Equity by Design methodology. Equity... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Spring 2024
April 8 - April 28, 2024 Short Course Description This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned... Continue Reading →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Summer 2024)
June 10 - June 30, 2024 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 (CRP). In this introductory course, we’ll have... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with Video Technologies (Summer 2024)
June 10 - June 30, 2024 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. 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... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership Workshop: QM – Creating Presence in Your Online Course (Summer 2024)
July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through Quality Matters (QM). QM: Creating Presence in Your Online Course - Participants in this QM facilitated workshop will learn how to create three types of presence in online courses: instructor, social, and cognitive. Format: The partnership workshop includes synchronous... Continue Reading →
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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 relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect our values... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership Workshop: OLC – Facilitating Online Group Work (Summer 2024)
July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). OLC: Facilitating Online Group Work – Participants in this self-paced workshop will dive deeper into the common reasons why groups fail, and provide effective strategies for designing, facilitating, and evaluating online group work. Format:... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice II (Summer 2024)
July 15 - August 8, 2024 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown, indigenous, and people of color and builds on foundational disability justice topics in the context of higher education to move equity awareness into equity action.... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Technology (Summer 2024)
July 22 - August 11, 2024 Short Course Description Learn to apply an equity lens to your teaching with technology. This course is an introduction to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as an equity framework. Explore ways to design courses that address access, accessibility, as well as equitable learning outcomes. In this... Continue Reading →
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