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March 18 - April 7, 2024 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 →

March 25 - April 14, 2024 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown, indigenous, and people of color and builds on foundational disability justice topics in the context of higher education to move equity awareness into equity action.... Continue Reading →

March 25 - April 14, 2024 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 →

April 1- April 21, 2024 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature review of the topic. From there, participants will explore evidence approaches (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods), select an appropriate tool from that evidence approach, determine the... Continue Reading →

April 1 - April 28, 2024 Short Course Description This four-week short course is designed to build foundational skills and knowledge for engaging in the Equity by Design methodology. Equity by Design is a Minnesota State strategic priority informed by the work of McNair, Bensimon and others, who have shown that one path toward closing... Continue Reading →

April 8 - April 28, 2024 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... Continue Reading →

May 28 - June 16 Short Course Description  Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and... Continue Reading →

May 29 - June 16, 2024 Short Course Description Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or an experienced user of D2L Brightspace, you can use the pre-formatted... Continue Reading →

June 3 - June 23, 2024 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 →

June 10 - June 30, 2024 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 (CRP). In this introductory course, we’ll have... Continue Reading →

June 10 - June 30, 2024 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 store your recordings. 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... Continue Reading →

July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through Quality Matters (QM). QM: Creating Presence in Your Online Course - Participants in this... Continue Reading →