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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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Fall 2022
OnlineNovember 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 →
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OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Spring 2023
OnlineOER Learning Circles Spring 2023 February 21 - May 1 Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing,... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design
OnlineJanuary 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 →
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Accessible Digital Media
OnlineJanuary 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 →
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Introduction to Antiracist Pedagogy
OnlineFebruary 6 - February 26, 2023 Short Course Course Learning Objectives Through engaging in the work of the training, faculty will be able to: Define antiracist pedagogy as an individual... Continue Reading →
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D2L: Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction
OnlineFebruary 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... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Inquiry and IRB
OnlineFebruary 13 – March 5, 2023 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101
OnlineFebruary 21 - April 2, 2023 Short Course Description This six week short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect... Continue Reading →
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Grade Smarter Not Harder
OnlineMarch 20 - April 9, 2023 Short Course (This course was previously titled Improving Online Assessments) Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it... Continue Reading →
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Technology Tools for Teaching
OnlineMarch 20 - April 9, 2023 Short Course Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice I
OnlineIntroduction to Disability Justice March 27 - April 16, 2023 Short Course Description In this 3-week introduction to disability justice course, you will learn about disability justice, practice using inclusive language, and apply strategies to interrupt ableism. You can expect to create documents and/or find ways to apply your learning right away, including options like:... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Summer 2023
OnlineOER Learning Circles Summer 2023 May 8 - June 18* *Summer OER Learning Circle cohorts are accelerated, taking place over 5 weeks instead of 10. Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing, to permit their free reuse, continuous improvement, and re-purposing by... Continue Reading →
