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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Practical uses for the D2L Media Library (Summer 2024)
The Media Library tool offers a simplified method for creating and storing video and audio recordings directly in your D2L course. Media Library includes a Record Video feature, and an Add Video Note feature, all of which can be used by both students and instructors. This webinar will present some practical uses of these tools,... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Inquiry and IRB (Summer 2024)
June 3 - June 23, 2024 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online (Summer 2024)
June 3 – August 4, 2024 (Break 7/1 – 7/7) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences for their students, and deans evaluate online experiences from a student perspective. Participants will learn about quality standards in online course design and the basic principles of backwards design... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online for Deans (Summer 2024)
June 3 – August 4, 2024 (Break 7/1 – 7/7) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences for their students, and deans evaluate online experiences from a student perspective. Participants will learn about quality standards in online course design and the basic principles of backwards design... Continue Reading →
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The Professionalism Pact (Summer 2024)
Professional fluency is a concept we’ve been consciously working on at Lake Superior College in one form or another since 2014. As we have emerged from the pandemic, we are seeing an even greater need to help students shore up their professional skills: meeting deadlines, communicating effectively, showing respect, taking personal responsibility, and working in... Continue Reading →
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Replay of Part 2 – Racial Justice and Disability Justice: Working Together to Free Our Minds and Bodies (Summer 2024)
OnlineDescription We will discuss the compound impact of intersections between racism and ableism within US society and why this intersect is so rarely discussed in social justice. We’ll hear from key figures who work in racial and/or disability justice and think about how their ideas overlap or could overlap. Lastly, we’ll talk about what social... Continue Reading →
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Design with the End in Mind: Mastering Backward Design for Effective Learning (Summer 2024)
Dive into the backward design framework to strategically plan curriculum that starts with the end goals in sight. This webinar guides educators through the process of defining clear objectives, determining acceptable evidence, and planning learning experiences effectively. Learning Outcomes: Define the core components of backward design and their application in educational planning. Develop a unit... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Summer 2024)
June 10 - June 30, 2024 Short Course Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with Video Technologies (Summer 2024)
June 10 - June 30, 2024 Short Course Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to... Continue Reading →
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Replay of Part 3 – New Ways to Talk about Disability (Summer 2024)
OnlineDescription People often talk about disability in outdated ways because they have never had to question it. Such ableist language, however, is rooted in the ongoing trauma experienced by many people with disabilities. In fact, our outdated language grew out of what are called the “pity” and “medical” disability models or frames. This workshop aims... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: June 2024
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the June 2024 release (version 20.24.06) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, June 20. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.... Continue Reading →
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Creating a Culturally Responsive Syllabus (Summer 2024)
The course syllabus is, as William Germano and Kit Nicholls note in their subtitle of their 2020 book Syllabus, “The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything.” So, it’s the summer, the perfect time to be thinking about how you might consider elements within the syllabus that can remove barriers to understanding the system of your... Continue Reading →
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