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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Events
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Open Textbook Network Webinar
OnlineWebinars introducing open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. Faculty participating in this webinar may review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200.00 honorarium once the review is completed. Register here: https://open.umn.edu/otn/workshops/9-16-19 Questions? Contact Karen Pikula,... Continue Reading →
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Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) – Start 2 Weeks
OnlineDescription QM's flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in reviewing the design of online and blended courses is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors. It is particularly helpful to those new to QM or those considering the adoption of a quality... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility, UDL, and You
OnlineWhen creating or revising your course materials and content, are you using the built-in features of Word, PowerPoint, and Brightspace to ensure that your course materials and content are accessible? In this webinar, participants will review the important role faculty play in designing courses that are accessible. Participants will learn how to create accessible course... Continue Reading →
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Best of the Minnesota Summit Webinars
OnlineRecipes for Effective Online Teaching: Curated Videos Plus Activities Thursday, September 19, 2019, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. CDT Presented by: Susan Tade, University of Minnesota; Nima Salehi, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota Research shows us that recording hours of video lectures for online or flipped classes is an ineffective online teaching resource. Studies show... Continue Reading →
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Z-Degree Project (Application Due)
Announcing the Minnesota State Z-Degree Project In accordance with recent state legislation, Minnesota State is embarking on a program to create three new zero cost textbook degrees (Z-Degree) on three... Continue Reading →
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CC Certificate for Librarians – Fall
OnlineThe Creative Commons Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. The course is composed of readings, quizzes, discussions and practical exercises... Continue Reading →
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Increase Student Engagement with Discussion Boards
OnlineIn this webinar, you will be introduced to several, easy to implement discussion techniques that can be used to increase student engagement. You will be introduced a variety of different discussion board activities including icebreakers, multi-media discussions and group projects. You will also learn how to structure a debate online, ways to incorporate scenario-based learning... Continue Reading →
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OER Librarian’s Workshop Day
Quarry Center 314 10th Ave. S., Waite Park, MN, United StatesRSVP Below by September 23rd Academic librarians are critical partners in efforts to provide open educational resources (OER) for students and faculty. Educational Innovations is happy to announce an opportunity for librarians and library staff from across Minnesota State to come together for a day to network with colleagues, learn more about OER efforts across... Continue Reading →
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Communicating with Students via Intelligent Agents
OnlineDescription What in the world is an Intelligent Agent? The Intelligent Agents tool in D2L Brightspace sends automated emails to students when they need a reminder to complete a specific task in your course or perhaps deserve a message of support for completing a task. The Intelligent Agent tool can promotes learners to be accountable... Continue Reading →
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Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) – Start 2 Weeks
OnlineDescription The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric. Participants... Continue Reading →
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Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication Using Individual Discussions in D2L Brightspace
OnlineDescription With a few changes in your discussion settings, you can create private discussions in your D2L Brightspace course. In this private discussion space you can communicate with individual students one-on-one. This allows you to keep track of student-to-instructor communication without messages getting lost in your email. Faculty members have also found this strategy is... Continue Reading →
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Building Instructor Presence in Online and Blended Courses
OnlineCreating a sense of community and instructor presence is important in all courses. In an online or blended course, it can come with some challenges. This session will provide strategies for using D2L tools such as Announcements, Content, Email/Classlist, Intelligent Agents, Personalized Notifications, and Discussion Boards to build your instructor presence. Examples will be showcased.... Continue Reading →
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