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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  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Summer 2024)

    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 →

    Free
  • Teaching with Video Technologies (Summer 2024)

    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 →

    Free
  • Equity 101 (Summer 2024)

    July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Disability Justice II (Summer 2024)

    July 15 - August 8, 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 →

    Free
  • Equity and Technology (Summer 2024)

    July 22 - August 11, 2024 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
  • Accessible Course Documents (Fall 2024)

    August 26 - September 15, 2024 Short Course Description  This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course introduces participants to basic techniques to using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint. Additionally, participants will get... Continue Reading →

    Free

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