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 and Inclusion Coordinators Monthly Check In: December
OnlineIn collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and implementing a plan for comprehensive set of development opportunities to help faculty members build knowledge, skills, and abilities related to equity and inclusion efforts within... Continue Reading →
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Koffee with Karen: OER Community Conversations
OnlineTopic: Using OER in your HyFlex Courses HyFlex is a course design model that presents the components of hybrid learning in a flexible course structure that gives students the option of attending sessions in the classroom, participating online, or doing both. Students can change their mode of attendance weekly or by topic, according to need... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: December 20.20.12 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.12, the December release, that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, December 17. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: December
OnlineDescription Topic: Student Engagement One of the most common challenges we have as teachers is engaging students. The online environment makes it even more difficult; the pandemic hasn’t helped. Not too surprisingly, it came up more than once at our November Conversation with Colleagues. The topic of our December Conversation will be student engagement. Ideally,... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Inclusion Coordinators Monthly Check In: January
OnlineIn collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and implementing a plan for comprehensive set of development opportunities to help faculty members build knowledge, skills, and abilities related to equity and inclusion efforts within... 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... Continue Reading →
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Skills to Manage Course Dates to Improve Student Engagement (3 week short course)
OnlineJanuary 18 - February 7, 2021 Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including the Import/Export/Copy Components, Manage Dates, and... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: January
OnlineTopic HyFlex Model - Planning, Execution, and Impact: A Peek into the Lived Experiences of Instructors and Students Presenters: Jason Cussler, Becky Evan, and Nick Heisserer Description The COVID-19 pandemic has... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: January 20.21.01 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.21.01, the January release, that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, January 21, 2021. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Trauma Responsive Pedagogy (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Both Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP) and Trauma Responsive Practices (TRP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circles – Spring 2021 Applications Due
OnlineWhat are OER Learning Circles? Collaborate with other Minnesota State faculty from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around open educational resources (OER) and/or creating OER ancillary... Continue Reading →
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Applying the QM Rubric (2 week short course)
OnlineJanuary 25 - February 7, 2021 Description 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... Continue Reading →
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