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April 7 - April 27, 2025 Short Course Description  Enhance your teaching toolkit with this 3-week course focused on regular and substantive interaction (What is regular and substantive interaction?). You'll... Continue Reading →

April 14 - May 4, 2025 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown,... Continue Reading →

May 19 - June 8, 2025 Short Course Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended?  In this course, you’ll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help... Continue Reading →

May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license.  It is easy to use and provides a variety of options for including media such as images and videos.  This short course will introduce you to the platform, walk you through creating... Continue Reading →

May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short 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 design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there... Continue Reading →

June 9 - June 29, 2025 Short Course Description  This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course introduces participants to basic techniques and available in Microsoft Word. Additionally, participants will get an opportunity to update web pages posted to... Continue Reading →

July 7 - July 27, 2025 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →

July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature... Continue Reading →

July 14 - August 3, 2025 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 →

July 21 - August 10, 2025 Short Course In this three-week short course you will learn essential strategies for building an effective course with technology (D2L Brightspace). Each module includes... Continue Reading →

July 28 - August 17, 2025 Short Course Description  In this course, we will review and enhance the design of your course to support student learning. We will focus on... Continue Reading →