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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Z-Degree Project (Application Due)
Announcing the Minnesota State Z-Degree Project In accordance with recent state legislation, Minnesota State is embarking on a program to create three new zero cost textbook degrees (Z-Degree) on three different college campuses. We invite all of our colleges to consider being part of this project and offer the following to help with your decision:... Continue Reading →
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CC Certificate for Librarians – Fall
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 to develop learners’ open skills. Minnesota State system office will support up to ten seats for the CC Certificate for Librarians tract of the Creative... Continue Reading →
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Increase Student Engagement with Discussion Boards
OnlineIn this webinar, you will be introduced to several, easy to implement discussion techniques that can be used to increase student engagement. You will be introduced a variety of different discussion board activities including icebreakers, multi-media discussions and group projects. You will also learn how to structure a debate online, ways to incorporate scenario-based learning... Continue Reading →
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OER Librarian’s Workshop Day
Quarry Center 314 10th Ave. S., Waite Park, MN, United StatesRSVP Below by September 23rd Academic librarians are critical partners in efforts to provide open educational resources (OER) for students and faculty. Educational Innovations is happy to announce an opportunity for librarians and library staff from across Minnesota State to come together for a day to network with colleagues, learn more about OER efforts across... Continue Reading →
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Communicating with Students via Intelligent Agents
OnlineDescription What in the world is an Intelligent Agent? The Intelligent Agents tool in D2L Brightspace sends automated emails to students when they need a reminder to complete a specific... Continue Reading →
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Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) – Start 2 Weeks
OnlineDescription The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their... Continue Reading →
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Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication Using Individual Discussions in D2L Brightspace
OnlineDescription With a few changes in your discussion settings, you can create private discussions in your D2L Brightspace course. In this private discussion space you can communicate with individual students... Continue Reading →
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Building Instructor Presence in Online and Blended Courses
OnlineCreating a sense of community and instructor presence is important in all courses. In an online or blended course, it can come with some challenges. This session will provide strategies... Continue Reading →
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Out from the Shadows Workshop Series: Homelessness
OnlineBackground Minnesota State Office of Equity and Inclusion, Minnesota State Educational Innovations, and Minneapolis College present Out from the Shadows Workshop Series. Out from the Shadows of Minneapolis: Power, Pride,... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Start 3 Weeks)
OnlineDescription This 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... Continue Reading →
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Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support instructor-to-student interaction in courses. Maintaining instructor presence through regular communications (announcements, updates) and specific student-instructor interactions. Engaging... Continue Reading →
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Quick Eval Tool: Saving Time on Grading
OnlineDescription The Quick Eval tool in D2L Brightspace provides you a single location to view all unevaluated student submissions (Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes) from all your Brightspace courses. You can sort,... Continue Reading →
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