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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Events
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Equity by Design Informational Webinar
OnlineThe Minnesota State Office of Equity and Inclusion will be launching Equity by Design system-wide on June 24-25, 2020. In preparation for the launch, we are hosting this webinar which... Continue Reading →
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What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 1 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription 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... Continue Reading →
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You’re About to Grow: Using the Finding Your Place College Podcast for Student Orientation, Outreach and Virtual Mentoring (Webinar)
OnlineBackground 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... Continue Reading →
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Getting Everyone Access: Why Are We Needing This? (Webinar)
OnlineDescription This webinar offers a look at what using a screen reader looks like, and how in our digital world, which includes many more of us than it did 3 months ago, we need to assist all our students in gaining access to our materials. More people need tools to assist in accessing our work... Continue Reading →
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Five Ways to Humanize Your Online Course – Option 1 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription 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... Continue Reading →
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MN REFLECT Applications Due (Learning Community)
MN REFLECT Applications Due - Extended deadline: June 6, 2020* The MN REFLECT program brings together faculty from across disciplines, institutions, and experience to participate in a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) faculty learning community. Minnesota State REFLECT scholars will be supported as they develop, implement, and present research results at a conference or... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 8 – June 28 Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate student achievement... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom June 8 – June 28 Description This spring, 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... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online (Long course)
OnlineJune 8 - August 9, 2020 Break from July 4 - July 12 Course Learning Objectives Construct a course schedule, template, or outline that includes at least one learning objective... Continue Reading →
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Locating and Using OER and Library Resources (Webinar) – Option 1
OnlineDescription Are you interested in learning more about library and OER resources to incorporate into your classes this fall? In this webinar, learn from teaching faculty and librarians about how they have been able to access and incorporate these resources as well as hear suggestions on how you might be able to do the same. RSVP Required... Continue Reading →
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What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 1 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription 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... Continue Reading →
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Time is an Issue: Finding and Using Already Accessible Materials (Webinar)
OnlineDescription As more of our faculty have to move to hybrid or fully on line modes of teaching this fall, time is an issue if we need to create all of our own materials that are fully accessible. Fortunately, there are materials that are already captioned, or formatted and accessible for students. Making use of... Continue Reading →
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