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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  • Creating an inviting digital learning space through Zoom (Webinar)

    Online

    Description There’s no place like home to provide an opportunity to personalize and humanize your digital learning space. But when facilitating sessions outside of a traditional setting, we need to be aware of techniques to share new expectations while easing anxiety around participants’ ability to successfully engage with the technology. In this 50 minute webinar... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Kaltura MediaSpace Webinar: Creating videos that support the cognitive and affective domains of learning

    Online

    Description In this webinar, the facilitator will provide participants with examples of how instructors can create videos that support both the cognitive and affective domains of learning. Cognitive domain:  The facilitator will provide participants with a simple graphic organizer that supports the evidenced-based practice of chunking ----  helping to reduce the cognitive load on students... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • You’re About to Grow: Using the Finding Your Place College Podcast for Student Orientation, Outreach and Virtual Mentoring (Webinar)

    Online

    Background In 2019, professors Robert Jersak (Century College) and Dave Engen (Minnesota State University, Mankato) teamed up with a diverse group of six students to produce  The Finding Your Place College Podcast - a podcast series featuring authentic student voices as they explore the joys and challenges of college. The podcast is designed to reach all... Continue Reading →

  • CRP and Open Educational Pedagogy (Webinar)

    Online

    Description Both Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19 pandemic. CRP advocates that education utilize student’s lived experience; OEP advocates that education empower students as partners in the creation of course materials and disciplinary... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 2 (Webinar)

    Online

    Description Participants 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 what's working and what might need improvement. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming:  We use the email address you provided to send... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Providing Wise Feedback (Webinar)

    Online

    Description We all give some sort of feedback to students on their assessments, whether it be point values, verbal corrections, or written suggestions. The question is “does the feedback help the student learn?” Join us to dive deep into feedback to learn best practices to make it as useful as possible for students in their... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Securing your online Zoom sessions (Webinar)

    Online

    Description 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 manage the potential threats that could impacted unsecure sessions. In this 50 minute webinar we will look at the new Security Control center and offer... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Five Ways to Humanize Your Online Course – Option 2 (Webinar)

    Online

    Description 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 →

    Free
  • Designing Your Course for Student Learning (3 week short course)

    Online

    July 6 – July 26 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 course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master.  Here is what participants will do in this course:  Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course module... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Improving Student-to-Content Interaction (3 week short course)

    Online

    Aligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools  July 6 – July 26  Description  The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to support student-to-content interaction in courses:  Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed.  Monitoring learning outcomes based on student interaction with content.  Improving... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Kaltura MediaSpace Webinar: Using video to support learning strategies like retrieval practice and elaboration

    Online

    Description Video as often used as a method of delivering content in order to “get information into students’ heads.”  There is no doubt that this form of instruction is critical to supporting student learning, but delivering content is not learning.  To see student learning, we need to provide opportunities to “get information out of students’... Continue Reading →

    Free

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