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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Latinx students and the complicated history with Higher Ed (Webinar)
OnlineDescription In this webinar, participants will learn about the many conditions that have resulted in the miseducation of Latinx students. In additions, participants will learn about the multiple ways that... Continue Reading →
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What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineParticipants will review two common approaches to defining humanized learning, learn how national standards for online course quality incorporate humanizing strategies and evaluate their current courses and practices to identify... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Inclusion Coordinators Monthly Check In: May
OnlineIn collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and... Continue Reading →
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Equity 2030 Chancellor’s Fellows for Predictive Analytics (Webinar)
OnlineIn January 2020, Chancellor Malhotra appointed four Equity 2030 Chancellor’s Fellows from among Minnesota State faculty across the state to generate an essential knowledge base to lay the philosophical and... Continue Reading →
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What’s new in D2L Brightspace: May 2021 (Webinar)
OnlineThis webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.21.05, the Monthly release that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, May 20, 2021. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your... Continue Reading →
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Open Education Network Webinar
OnlineOEN Webinars introduce open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. Faculty participating in this webinar may review an... Continue Reading →
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Teach Together Minnesota! (Conference)
OnlineView the Program Educators from across Minnesota are invited to join this free virtual event to connect with colleagues within your discipline to have facilitated discussions grounded in cultural fluency and culturally relevant pedagogies. MinnState.edu/TeachTogetherMN Registration is Closed For last minute registration contact TeachTogether@MinnState.edu. Those who registered received a calendar appointment from ed-innovations@minnstate.edu with... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Biology Faculty
OnlineMay 19 - June 9, 2021 Description Faculty members teaching within the discipline of Biology are invited to join colleagues in this three week short course to explore and apply elements of... Continue Reading →
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HTML Content templates in D2L Brightspace (Webinar)
OnlineGet a jump-start on creating your course Content by making use of some pre-built HTML template files available to you when building your online course materials. This webinar will walk through the steps of selecting and revising the templates to make your class shine. Dress up your class and save time with templates that are... Continue Reading →
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Five Ways to Humanize Your Online Course: Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Participants will be guided through interactive demonstrations of five specific humanizing practices they could integrate in to their own online courses. Each demonstration will focus on a specific evidence-based course facilitation or design practice using tools available to all Minnesota State instructors. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineMay 24 - June 13, 2021 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... 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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