NED Events Calendar

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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  • Integrating Retrieval Practice: Fall 2022

    Online

    September 19 - October 9, 2022 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve through deliberate recall of skills and knowledge, spaced out over time, and reviewed along with other concepts. More than 100 years of educational research in... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry: Fall 2022

    Online

    September 26 - October 16, 2022 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for turning reflection into SoTL inquiry. Module 1 provides an overview of SoTL, including its history and process. Module 2 integrates participants’ reflection on teaching and... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Hacking Your Course Assessments: Fall 2022

    Online

    October 17 - November 6, 2022 Short Course (This course was previously titled Assessment of Student Learning) Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended?  In this course, you’ll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do)... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Fall 2022

    Online

    October 24 - November 14, 2022 Short Course Description  Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this introductory course, we’ll have the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Manage Course Dates to Improve Student Engagement: Fall 2022

    Online

    October 24 - November 13, 2022 Short Course 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 Brightspace Pulse) to effectively course facilitation for student motivation.  You will be provided with efficient ways to offset dates from previously offered courses,... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity and Technology: Fall 2022

    Online

    November 7 - November 27, 2022 Short Course Description Learn to apply an equity lens to your teaching with technology. This course is an introduction to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as an equity framework. Explore ways to design courses that address access, accessibility, as well as equitable learning outcomes. In this... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Fall 2022

    Online

    November 14 - December 4, 2022 Short Course 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. Course Learning Objectives  After completing this course, you will be... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Empathy by Design

    Online

    January 23 - February 12, 2023 Short Course (This short course was previously titled Humanizing Your Online Course) Description  This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Accessible Digital Media

    Online

    January 24 - February 12, 2023 Short Course Description  Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities,... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • D2L: Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction

    Online

    February 13 - March 5, 2023 Short Course Description By the end of this three week short course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Content, HTML Editor, and Release Conditions) to improve the instructor-to-student interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the... Continue Reading →

    Free

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