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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  • Pressbooks: Getting Your Stuff Organized (Webinar)

    Online

    Description Pressbooks is a software that we have available to us in Minnesota that functions as a free publishing tool. It can help you gather your various teaching materials into one place for students, functioning as a text for a course. In this webinar learn how to set up a Pressbooks account and learn the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Choosing a platform for your OER (Webinar)

    Online

    Part 1: Choosing a platform for your OER October 29, 2020 @ 1:00 - 2:00 pm Part 2 Part 3 Missed a webinar? Check the NED Resource Site for any available recordings or resources. Description Open Education Resources appear in many different formats and on many different platforms such as Pressbooks, Canvas, PDF, SoftChalk, and D2L. What are the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Working in Pressbooks: Adding OER Materials

    Online

    Description Pressbooks is a software made available for free to residents of Minnesota by the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project.  We will take some time to look through a couple of sample textbooks, and learn the basics about how to use Pressbooks.  Adding OER materials to the software will create a textbook-like layout, and allow you... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • OER Community Conversations: April 2022

    Online

    Topic: Using H5P tools and Pressbooks to create active OER learning activities and resources This year Lori Beth Larsen from Central Lakes College had the opportunity to add interactive activities using H5P into the Pressbooks versions of OER in her Introduction to Humanities course. Learn how she found tools that were conducive to her philosophy... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery: Summer 2022

    Online

    June 21 - July 10, 2022 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • 2023 Equity and Inclusion Faculty Learning Community

    Online

    September 6 - November 16, 2023 Dates vary by discipline Equity and Inclusion Faculty Learning Communities REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 1, 2023   Fall 2023 Disciplines: Agriculture and Food & Human and Personal Services  Share the flyer Description The Minnesota State Educational Development and Technology unit supports faculty within disciplines to come together to explore culturally... Continue Reading →

  • Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery: Fall 2023

    November 6 - 26, 2023 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 →

    Free
  • OER Community Conversations: December

    Facilitators Nicole Hinrichs-Bideau Humanities and Film Studies instructor at Century College Nicole has been active in adopting OER materials for her classrooms, offering courses in a wide variety of formats and modalities, including piloting HyFlex courses. Nicole compiled her own "text" for Art of Film by using OER and YouTube content from a variety of... Continue Reading →

    Free

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