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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Integrating Accessibility Professional Education and Certification Campus-Wide
Integrating accessibility professional certification campus-wide is a great way to ensure that your campus is inclusive and accommodates students with disabilities. Here are some steps to consider when integrating accessibility professional certification campus-wide: Evaluate certification options: Research and evaluate accessibility professional certification options to identify those that best meet your campus needs. Develop a certification... Continue Reading →
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Using Strategies from Success Coaching to Support Equitable Advising (Fall 2024)
In our effort to support a diverse population of students, transactional forms of advising—those strictly limited to course selection—should be interrogated and revised where possible. A fruitful area that can offer strategies is academic success coaching, which focuses on holistic, ongoing support of students centered around the concept of goal setting and personal development. Yet... Continue Reading →
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Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery (Fall 2024)
November 4 - 24, 2024 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license. It is easy to use and provides a variety of options for including media such as images and videos. This short course will introduce you to the platform, walk you through creating a... Continue Reading →
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Inclusive Video Conferencing (Fall 2024)
November 4 - 24, 2024 Short Course Learn practical strategies to create equitable and engaging video conferencing classes/meetings. Experience and practice how to model and maintain equitable and accessible spaces in a video conference environment (Zoom, Teams Meetings, etc.). Participation in at least 2 of 3 weekly Zoom meetings is required to complete this course.... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership Workshop: OLC and Equitable Teaching – Facilitating Online Group Work (Fall 2024)
Nov. 4 - Dec. 1, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). OLC: Facilitating Online Group Work – Participants in this self-paced workshop will dive deeper into the common reasons why groups fail, and provide effective strategies for designing, facilitating, and evaluating online group work. Note:... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership Workshop: QM and Equitable Teaching – Creating Presence in Your Online Course (Fall 2024)
Nov. 4 - Dec. 1, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through Quality Matters (QM). QM: Creating Presence in Your Online Course – Participants in this QM facilitated workshop will learn how to create three types of presence in online courses: instructor, social, and cognitive. Format: The partnership workshop includes synchronous... Continue Reading →
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Is My Document Accessible?
This webinar is set up to guide you through three essential strategies to make your course materials more accessible using Microsoft 365 tools. We’ll be covering: How to effectively use headings How to add alt text to images How to use the Word Accessibility Checker to review documents These tools are simple to use but... Continue Reading →
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Beyond the Classroom – Defining Co-Curricular Assessment
Co-Curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. In this webinar, we'll discuss perspectives on defining what co-curricular assessment means in the context of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and other professional organizations. Attendees will also have opportunities to share examples from their own... Continue Reading →
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Unlocking your AI Sidekick: Supercharging Your Work
In this webinar we will help define generative AI with real life examples using Microsoft Copilot as an assistant in daily workflow. Learning Outcomes By the end of this session, participants will be able to… Identify Minnesota State licensed generative AI tools Explore the MS Copilot tool for efficiency in your work Review Copilot results... Continue Reading →
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What Matters Most: Five Cs to Get New(-ish) Faculty Started
Just getting started in teaching? Looking for fresh approaches? Teaching can feel complex. To be successful, it’s helpful to prioritize early on what is most important. In this webinar, we offer new faculty five tips for getting started: creating Community in your course, promoting Clarity in your assessments, Communicating with students, Collaborating with colleagues, and... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (November 2024)
Date November 8, 2024 In-Person Workshop Location: Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants will collectively explore generative AI tools and (re-)design a learning activity or assessment that supports AI literacy, incorporates or resists generative AI tools, and applies... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Fall 2024)
November 11 - December 1, 2024 Short Course 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. Course Learning Objectives After completing this course, you will be able... Continue Reading →
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