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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  • CTE Works! Summit

    In-Person

    CTE Works! Summit: Connecting Learning to Earning The annual Minnesota CTE Works! Summit connects educators, advisors, and administrators from high schools and colleges with workforce developers, business and industry partners, and our local communities. This energizing professional development event features national leaders and local innovators sharing their data-informed research and practices in Career and Technical Education (CTE),... Continue Reading →

  • HTML Editor Tips and Tricks

    Online

    Description Is the HTML editor a mystery to you? Learn to use it in the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) view with all its bells and whistles, or pick up some tips for editing HTML source to make your Announcements and Content more vibrant and visually attractive. Attend this webinar to watch... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Learning Objectives: What, Why, Where & How

    Online

    Well-written learning objectives establish the foundation upon which courses are designed and delivered.  They form the basis for the instructional materials and assessments that are included in the course. They serve as an implied contract between the instructor and student by defining what is to be taught and what is to be learned, so communicating... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Humanizing your Course Facilitation

    Online

    Humanizing your Course Facilitation November 7, 2019  |  11:00-11:50am Get a taste of the 3-week short course Humanizing Your Course coming in December 2019. Instructor Amy Jo Swing and Coach Consultant Ken Graetz will preview some strategies to make your online teaching more human and more engaging. Based on Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s work on instructor presence... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Rubrics to Save Time Evaluating Student Work

    Online

    Description Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Rubrics can be utilized as both a valuable evaluation tool and a meaningful communication tool. It saves you time evaluating and grading while providing quality and objective feedback on student assignments. Attend... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Accessibility Webinar – Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 1

    Online

    Topic: Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 1 Recorded Presenter: Jonathan Whiting, Director of Training & Evaluation, WebAIM In this hands-on workshop, learn to evaluate and repair common accessibility issues in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Additional information available at the Evaluating and Repairing Word and Power Point Files – Part 1 breakout... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Group Discussions to Promote Student Engagement

    Online

    Description Want to encourage your students to interact more and share ideas and perspectives? Leverage the discussion tool to its greatest potential to enable students to enage in meaningful conversations that can take place over a period of time, allowing for reflection and thoughtful interaction. Attend this webinar to watch an overview of how to... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Bringing the Finding Your Place College Podcast to Your Campus

    Online

    Find and listen to episodes on SoundCloud In 2018, Robert Jersak (Century College) and Dave Engen (Minnesota State University, Mankato) received a Minnesota State Shark Tank Open Innovation grant (log in using your StarID@minnstate.edu) to create a podcast series for mentoring and supporting first-year and first-generation college students. The podcast features six student producers sharing their insights... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Kaltura Service Updates for Fall 2019

    Online

    Description This webinar will showcase the new features and improvements available to users of Kaltura services.  This webinar will focus on the updates you'll see starting in Kaltura on Thursday, November 21. New Provider of Machine Captioning Services Although you still order "machine" captions, under the Actions button, you'll the ording process looks just a... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Gradebook in Brightspace

    Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Description Have you always wanted to find the most efficient way to set up your gradebook in Brightspace? Have specific questions you’d like answered? Join us for the Gradebook workshop where we will spend one hour reviewing the features and functions of the tool, and then an hour working on your own gradebook in one... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Engaging use of the Discussion tool in Brightspace

    Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Description Looking for strategies to get students engaged with one another? Want to use the Discussion tool, but not sure how to get started? Join us for a workshop that introduces the features of online discussions and includes tips on how to get the most out of this venue. The first half of the workshop... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)

    Online

    Description The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to 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 content as needed to facilitate learner outcomes. By the end of this three week course you... Continue Reading →

    Free

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