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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SoTL Toolkit: Primer on Institutional Review Boards
OnlineThe Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) guides us as instructors to engage in continuous review, revision, and renewal of our teaching practices to support student learning. With SoTL, we ask questions like "What will happen after I implement this revision policy?"; "Does this assessment format work better than others?", and "How much more or... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace: Evaluate Students with Quizzes tool
OnlineThe Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides different methods of feedback when assessing students for an online exam. You can choose how to score quiz questions: automatically, manually, and/or with blind marking. Come learn about best practices to utilize the available data analysis within the Quizzes tool and evaluate how well students performed on a... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning
OnlineWhat is humanizing? How can we infuse our courses with empathy through humanizing strategies? During this webinar, we'll have an opportunity to explore practical ideas for humanizing your course, with the goal of identifying at least one humanizing practice to explore further and potentially adopt in ways that fit your practice, disciplines, and courses. This... 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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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: February 2023
OnlineThis webinar will focus on new features and changes in the February 2023 release (version 20.23.02) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, February 16. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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D2L: Communicating with Students via Intelligent Agents
OnlineWhat in the world is an Intelligent Agent? The Intelligent Agents tool in D2L Brightspace sends emails to students based on preset conditions. Faculty can create and schedule Intelligent Agents... Continue Reading →
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Connecting the Classroom to Minnesota State Guided Learning Pathways: February
OnlineFirst in a Three-Part Series Connecting the Classroom to Minnesota State Guided Learning Pathways February 15 @ 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. - Virtual Register for the other events in the... Continue Reading →
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Empathy, Compassion, and Rigor
OnlineWhat's the difference between empathy and compassion? How can we balance compassion and academic rigor? During this webinar, we'll have an opportunity to explore ideas discuss how to balance flexible,... 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... Continue Reading →
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Lights! Camera! Caption! Creating Effective and Accessible Video
OnlineLearn core principles for creating high-impact and effective accessible media, along with best practices for planning, scripting, filming, and sharing your productions. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: February
OnlineTopic: Accessible and Inclusive Event Planning Want to transform your meetings and events? Fully inclusive meetings and events consider all people - placing access and inclusion on the forefront of... Continue Reading →
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