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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Announcements as a Communication Tool in D2L Brightspace
Online*Mini-webinar 15 minutes* Description The Announcements on your D2L Brightspace course home page can help you communicate information to students and provide an additional avenue for student-teacher engagement. Learn tips... Continue Reading →
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Using the D2L Brightspace Quizzing Tool to Help Assess Student Learning
OnlineDescription The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides a way for you to assess students with an online exam. Learn how you can utilize question layout, dates and time restrictions,... Continue Reading →
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CRP An Introduction: Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription In this introductory presentation, we’ll have the opportunity to examine the central tenets of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). CRP advocates that good teaching draws on the knowledge and skill our students bring to the classroom, creates supportive relationships that allow students to take learning risks, and prepares students to challenge barriers to their full... 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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Designing Your Course for Student Learning 1
OnlineDescription Spend some time creating aligned module objectives for your class! In this 1 hour webinar, we will go through a brief overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, practice writing learning objectives and then have an open forum to get feedback on your newly written objectives. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering,... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101 1: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineAugust 30 – September 19, 2021 Description This course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect our values and worldview (especially... Continue Reading →
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Faculty Development Series (session 1) 2021-22
OnlineEducational Development Opportunities: Integrate, leverage, align, & network Learn about the opportunities available through the Network for Educational Development (NED). Review the ways in which campuses leverage the NED to... Continue Reading →
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Creative Commons Certificate: Registration Deadline Fall 2021
OnlineThe Creative Commons Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. The course is composed of readings, quizzes, discussions and practical exercises... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 7 – September 26, 2021 Description 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 reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of this three–week course you will be able to identify and... Continue Reading →
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Manage Course Dates on a Single Screen
OnlineDescription The Start, End, and Due dates from most tools in D2L Brightspace can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each... Continue Reading →
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Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication with Private Discussions
OnlineDescription Private discussions have multiple uses in Brightspace. You can communicate with students one-on-one, keep track of student to instructor communication, and encourage students to keep a reflective journal. You... Continue Reading →
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Securing Your Online Zoom Session
OnlineDescription Explore best practices in securely scheduling, managing and distributing information about virtual sessions in Zoom. Zoom has implemented new security features and in meeting controls to allow hosts to... Continue Reading →
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