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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CTE Works! Summit
In-PersonCTE 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 →
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HTML Editor Tips and Tricks
OnlineDescription 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 →
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Learning Objectives: What, Why, Where & How
OnlineWell-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 →
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Humanizing your Course Facilitation
OnlineHumanizing 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 →
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Rubrics to Save Time Evaluating Student Work
OnlineDescription 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... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Webinar – Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 1
OnlineTopic: 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... Continue Reading →
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Group Discussions to Promote Student Engagement
OnlineDescription 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... Continue Reading →
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Bringing the Finding Your Place College Podcast to Your Campus
OnlineFind 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... Continue Reading →
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Kaltura Service Updates for Fall 2019
OnlineDescription 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,... Continue Reading →
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Gradebook in Brightspace
Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesDescription 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 →
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Engaging use of the Discussion tool in Brightspace
Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesDescription 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 →
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Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription 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 →
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