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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Humanizing Your Course (Start 3 Weeks)
OnlineDescription 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... 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... Continue Reading →
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Koffee with Karen: OER Community Site & Quickstart Guides
OnlineTopic Join the conversation to learn about the new OER Community Site and the OER Quickstart Guides that can be found there. The Quickstart guides are intended to help faculty and staff identify and review OER options within different disciplines. Koffee with Karen: OER Community Conversations are open forum conversations for all to share, discuss, and... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Webinar – Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 2
OnlineTopic: Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 2 Recorded Presenter: Jonathan Whiting, Director of Training & Evaluation, WebAIM It is recommended, but not required, that you previously attended “Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 1” as this is a continuation of that workshop. In this hands-on workshop, learn to... Continue Reading →
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Best of the Minnesota Summit Webinars
OnlineBuilding Quality Online Experiences: Program Standards, Training, Design Thursday, December 12, 2019, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. CST Presented by: Nancy McGinley Myers, Lisa Abendroth, Kevin Henderson, Hannah Hedegard, University of... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace 20.19.12?
OnlineDescription We host a monthly webinar to showcase the new features or improvements to D2L Brightspace. This webinar will focus on version 20.19.12, the November release that you'll see in... Continue Reading →
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CC Certificate for Librarians – Spring Deadline
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 to develop learners’ open skills. Minnesota State system office will support up to ten seats for the CC Certificate for Librarians tract of the Creative... Continue Reading →
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Copy Course Materials to a New Course with Ease (D2L Brightspace)
OnlineDescription Part of the D2L Brightspace Semester Start-up Series Copy Course Components is a tool in D2L Brightspace that enables you to copy materials from your existing courses into another course. When copying components, you can choose all or select individual items to copy into your course. Learn how you can save time by repurposing course material. Attend this webinar to see a hands on overview of how to use the Copy... Continue Reading →
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Zoom Information Session
OnlineJoin Us Please register/RSVP and join us at https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/6181652382 for a guided tour of Zoom by from Minnesota State staff. Details about the Zoom Service Who can use Zoom? All active Minnesota State employees (faculty and staff) and students are able to access the service by logging in with their Star ID. How long do... 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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What’s New in D2L 20.20.01?
OnlineDescription We host a monthly webinar to showcase the new features or improvements to D2L Brightspace. This webinar will focus on version 20.20.01, the January release that you'll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, January 16. Connection Details Join this webinar by joining this Zoom meeting room on the day/time of the event. RSVP Requested... Continue Reading →
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Best of the Minnesota Summit Webinars
OnlineAre We Doing Enough to Help Faculty Teach Online? Thursday, January 16, 2020 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. CST Presented by: Elizabeth Harsma, Minnesota State University, Mankato A recent survey of public colleges and university provosts on online education reported that even as institutions' expectations for online learning capacity and quality grow, training, and support for... Continue Reading →
