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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Environmental Science OER Course Materials for Opendora (Innovation Expo)
OnlineSaint Paul College Background St. Paul College is developing open source supplementary materials for use in an introductory Environmental Science course, and share with all Minnesota State faculty through Opendora. This project is developing three types of resources for faculty use: online learning activities, study guides, and a test bank. Presenter: Joanna Cregan, Saint Paul... Continue Reading →
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Koffee with Karen: OER Community Conversations: April 2021
OnlineTopic Redesigning curriculum to be more inclusive, and representative of all voices This session will offer an overview of the overlaps between Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Open Educational Pedagogy, with an aim of supporting participants' confidence in making their next steps in their equity/open journeys. Guest Lisa Bergin, Minneapolis College Lisa teaches in the Philosophy... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circles – Summer 2021 Applications Due
OnlineWhat are OER Learning Circles? Collaborate with other Minnesota State faculty from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around open educational resources (OER) and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate textbook costs for students. In addition to virtual weekly meetings, OER Learning Circles will utilize a D2L Brightspace course to support... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: May
OnlineDescription: In this webinar, host Karen Pikula will answer questions that were commonly asked in OEN Webinars, Koffee with Karen, and the OER Learning Circles. Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. Submit an OER Question RSVP RSVP below to register and receive the Zoom URL... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with OERs (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Have you been thinking about trying to teach without a published textbook? Would you like to hear about how someone has done this? Would you like to see a course designed around a wide variety of open access materials? Take some time to hear about various open resources, and see the development of a... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Fall 2021
OnlineOER Learning Circles Fall 2021 September 27 – December 5, 2021 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 others for educational purposes (UNESCO). OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming... Continue Reading →
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Open Education Network Webinar
OnlineOpen Education Network (OEN) Webinars introduce Minnesota State faculty and staff to open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. After the OEN Webinar, attendance will be taken. Attendees will receive a link to review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: September 2021
OnlineDescription In this webinar, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more! Time... Continue Reading →
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Librarian Workdays 2021: Ignite Affordable Education
OnlineAcademic librarians are critical partners in efforts to provide open educational resources (OER) for both students and faculty. Educational Innovations is happy to announce two virtual opportunities for librarians and library staff from across... Continue Reading →
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OER Community Conversations: October 2021
OnlineTopic: Post Pandemic Access to Higher Education, Challenges and Opportunities Access to higher education has been transformed because of the pandemic. What changes did we make that are now going to become permanent? What new challenges do we face that we hadn’t even considered before the pandemic began? Finally, how can open educational resources (OERs) help... Continue Reading →
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Librarian Workdays 2021: Affordable Education Explosion
OnlineAcademic librarians are critical partners in efforts to provide open educational resources (OER) for both students and faculty. Educational Innovations is happy to announce two virtual opportunities for librarians and library staff from across Minnesota State campuses to come together for a day to network with colleagues, learn more about OER efforts across the system, and identify how librarians can... Continue Reading →
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Working in Pressbooks: Adding OER Materials
OnlineDescription Pressbooks is a software made available for free to residents of Minnesota by the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project. We will take some time to look through a couple of sample textbooks, and learn the basics about how to use Pressbooks. Adding OER materials to the software will create a textbook-like layout, and allow you... Continue Reading →
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