The NED was established to provide 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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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: A Deep Dive into Learning Objectives (Webinar Option 1)
OnlineDescription Spend some time creating aligned module objectives for your class! In this 1 hour webinar, we will go through a brief overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, practice writing learning objectives... Continue Reading →
Effective Course Design: Self-Check (Webinar)
OnlineHave you ever asked yourself any of these questions about your online course? Why aren't my students able to find what they need? Are my students utilizing all the resources... Continue Reading →
Applying Templates in D2L Brightspace (Webinar)
OnlineLearn how you can use the pre-formatted HTML templates as a starting point for creating Content pages in D2L Brightspace. The templates provide you with example materials and page layouts... Continue Reading →
Is Time an Issue? Finding Accessible Materials (Webinar)
OnlineDescription We all want to use teaching materials that are high quality, interesting, often open access, and we are making sure that they are accessible to all of our students. ... Continue Reading →
CRP An Introduction: Option 1 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription In this introductory presentation, we’ll have the opportunity to examine the central tenets of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). CRP advocates that good teaching draws on the knowledge and skill... Continue Reading →
Teaching with OERs (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Have you been thinking about trying to teach without a published textbook? Would you like to hear about how someone has done this? Would you like to see a course designed around a wide variety of open access materials? Take some time to hear about various open resources, and see the development of a... Continue Reading →
Designing Your Course for Student Learning: A Deep Dive into Learning Objectives (Webinar Option 1)
OnlineDescription You can help your students achieve your course objectives by learning to write targeted, specific learning objectives for each module or week of your class. Great module objectives help you keep your goals in mind as you determine what and how you will teach and assess our students each week. In this 1 hour... Continue Reading →
Automated Closed Captioning: When to Bot and When to Not (Webinar)
OnlineAutomated or machine-generated closed captioning is a game changer for media accessibility. Learn about the pros and cons of automated captioning and transcripts and how to best utilize this developing technology. 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... Continue Reading →
Using D2L Quizzes to Assess Students (Webinar)
OnlineIn this webinar, we will cover some tips and tricks for using D2L Quizzes to assess student knowledge and skills. Topics will include creating and using test banks and item... Continue Reading →
Caring in an Unjust World (Webinar)
OnlineDescription In this webinar, participants will discuss how caring for students of color and low-income students becomes a political act because it pushes back against the racialized disparities in academic outcomes that continue to affect our students. Participants will investigate how to construct caring teacher-student relationships that stem from their intentions to positively influence the... Continue Reading →
Designing Your Course for Student Learning 2: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 5 - July 25, 2021 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... Continue Reading →
Six Ways to Improve Learning with Retrieval Practice: Option 1 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Improve learning with retrieval practice teaching methods. Learn six practical strategies for your synchronous and asynchronous courses that use retrieval to enhance academic achievement and long-term learning. Outcomes: Define... Continue Reading →