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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  • Koffee with Karen: OER Community Conversations

    Online

    Topic: Using OER in your HyFlex Courses HyFlex is a course design model that presents the components of hybrid learning in a flexible course structure that gives students the option of attending sessions in the classroom, participating online, or doing both. Students can change their mode of attendance weekly or by topic, according to need... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Open Education Network Webinar

    Online

    OEN 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 open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200.00 honorarium once the review is completed. Registration Deadline is January 25, 2021... Continue Reading →

  • OER FAQ: February

    Online

    Description: 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 →

    Free
  • Koffee with Karen: OER Community Conversations February

    Online

    Topic: Equity and the Digital Divide: Student Access to Technology Join us for a thoughtful conversation with the Rochester Community and Technical College community. They will briefly talk about their campus initiatives to provide all students with the technology they need for college success. They will then facilitate a brainstorming session to find out how... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Open Education Network Webinar

    Online

    OEN 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 open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200.00 honorarium once the review is completed. Registration Deadline is March 18, 2021... Continue Reading →

  • OER FAQ: March

    Online

    Description: 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • OER Learning Circles – Summer 2021 Applications Due

    Online

    What 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 →

  • Open Education Network Webinar

    Online

    OEN 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 open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200.00 honorarium once the review is completed. Registration Deadline is May 13, 2021... Continue Reading →

  • OER FAQ: May

    Online

    Description: 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 →

    Free
  • Is Time an Issue? Finding Accessible Materials (Webinar)

    Online

    Description We all want to use teaching materials that are high quality, interesting, often open access, and we are making sure that they are accessible to all of our students.  But not everything that is out there is accessible! And it is time consuming to try and find these materials. So come and check out... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Teaching with OERs (Webinar)

    Online

    Description 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 →

    Free

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