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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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: January 2023 (20.23.01)
OnlineThis webinar will focus on new features and changes in the January 2023 release (version 20.23.01) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, January 19. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Spring 2023
OnlineOER Learning Circles Spring 2023 February 21 - May 1 Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing,... Continue Reading →
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Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Community: Spring 2023
OnlineJanuary 25 - April 21 Dates vary by discipline Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Communities REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 20, 2023 Spring 2023 Disciplines: Accounting, Health and Exercise Science, Economics, Math, and Cross-Discipline... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design
OnlineJanuary 23 - February 12, 2023 Short Course (This short course was previously titled Humanizing Your Online Course) Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media
OnlineJanuary 24 - February 12, 2023 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities,... Continue Reading →
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OEN Webinar
OnlineOpen Education Network (OEN) Webinars introduce Minnesota State faculty and staff to open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Learning Community
OnlineJanuary 30 - April 23, 2023 Faculty Learning Community Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift... Continue Reading →
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Create materials with HTML and HTML Content templates
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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Creating Equity Through Connection: Connecting with your institution
OnlineFaculty Developer's Series Creating Equity Through Connection: Connecting with your institution February 1 @ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Virtual Register for the other events in the series: October 4, 2022 | April 14, 2023 How can educational developers focus on Equity 2030 and Guided Learning Pathways (GLP) and support this work on their... Continue Reading →
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Manage Dates in D2L Brightspace
OnlineThe 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 individual tool and opening each individual item to change dates, you can use Manage Dates to view all dates at once, with filtering, sorting and searching... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: February
OnlineDescription In this webinar, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more! Submit a question here beforehand. Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below... Continue Reading →
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OER Librarians Community of Practice: February 2023
OnlineDiscuss with librarian colleagues how to support instructional design principles and diversity through open and affordable resources. We will start with a brief introduction to the topic by Carrie Miller,... Continue Reading →
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