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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Equity 101 1: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineAugust 30 – September 19, 2021 Description This course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others.... Continue Reading →
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Faculty Development Series (session 1) 2021-22
OnlineEducational Development Opportunities: Integrate, leverage, align, & network Learn about the opportunities available through the Network for Educational Development (NED). Review the ways in which campuses leverage the NED to... Continue Reading →
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Creative Commons Certificate: Registration Deadline Fall 2021
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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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 7 – September 26, 2021 Description You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to reflect and... Continue Reading →
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Manage Course Dates on a Single Screen
OnlineDescription The Start, End, and Due dates from most tools in D2L Brightspace can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each... Continue Reading →
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Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication with Private Discussions
OnlineDescription Private discussions have multiple uses in Brightspace. You can communicate with students one-on-one, keep track of student to instructor communication, and encourage students to keep a reflective journal. You... Continue Reading →
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Securing Your Online Zoom Session
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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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 13 - October 3, 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... Continue Reading →
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Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 13 - October 3, 2021 Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Classlist, Email, Intelligent Agents, personalized Announcements,... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Faculty Learning Community Fall 2021
OnlineSeptember 13 - December 5, 2021 Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2021
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the September 2021 release (version 20.21.09) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, September 16. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Leveraging the Groups tool for greater student interaction
OnlineDescription Discover various ways to leverage the Groups tool to allow students to choose their own small groups or to randomly place students in groups. Use the groups tool in... Continue Reading →
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