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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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace June 29 – July 19 Description This spring, 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. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for... Continue Reading →
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CRP and Open Educational Pedagogy (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Both Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19 pandemic. CRP advocates that education utilize student’s lived experience; OEP advocates that education empower students as partners in the creation of course materials and disciplinary... Continue Reading →
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What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Participants will review two common approaches to defining humanized learning, learn how national standards for online course quality incorporate humanizing strategies, and evaluate their current courses and practices to identify what's working and what might need improvement. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send... Continue Reading →
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Providing Wise Feedback (Webinar)
OnlineDescription We all give some sort of feedback to students on their assessments, whether it be point values, verbal corrections, or written suggestions. The question is “does the feedback help the student learn?” Join us to dive deep into feedback to learn best practices to make it as useful as possible for students in their... Continue Reading →
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Securing your online Zoom sessions (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Explore best practices in securely scheduling, managing and distributing information about virtual sessions in Zoom. Zoom has implemented new security features and in meeting controls to allow hosts to manage the potential threats that could impacted unsecure sessions. In this 50 minute webinar we will look at the new Security Control center and offer... Continue Reading →
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Five Ways to Humanize Your Online Course – Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Participants will be guided through interactive demonstrations of five specific humanizing practices they could integrate in to their own online courses. Each demonstration will focus on a specific evidence-based course facilitation or design practice using tools available to all Minnesota State instructors. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 6 – July 26 Description This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master. Here is what participants will do in this course: Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course module... Continue Reading →
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Improving Student-to-Content Interaction (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools July 6 – July 26 Description The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to support student-to-content interaction in courses: Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed. Monitoring learning outcomes based on student interaction with content. Improving... Continue Reading →
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Kaltura MediaSpace Webinar: Using video to support learning strategies like retrieval practice and elaboration
OnlineDescription Video as often used as a method of delivering content in order to “get information into students’ heads.” There is no doubt that this form of instruction is critical to supporting student learning, but delivering content is not learning. To see student learning, we need to provide opportunities to “get information out of students’... Continue Reading →
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Writing Good Questions for Assessments (Webinar) – Option 2
OnlineDescription Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you’ll learn about principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you reminder emails as the event date gets closer,... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Course – Section 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 13 – August 2 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 are no scheduled... Continue Reading →
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Improving Online Assessments – Section 1 (3 week short course)
OnlineImproving Online Assessments July 13 – August 2 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 test questions.... Continue Reading →
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