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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Koffee with Karen: Z-Degree
OnlineKoffee with Karen: Community Conversations are open forum conversations for all to share, discuss, and learn from colleagues in the Minnesota State OER community. Hosted by Karen Pikula, the OER... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Webinar – DIY Digital Accessibility
OnlineTopic: DIY Digital Accessibility: Building the Foundation for Accessible Course Content at the University of Maryland Recorded Presenter: Sue Johnson, Instructional Designer UMD’s commitment to creating and maintaining a welcoming... Continue Reading →
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Best of the Minnesota Summit Webinars
OnlineThink Your Way Out of the Problem Thursday, October 17, 2019, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. CDT Presented by: Pamela McGee, Denise Gorsline, Joshua Behl, Minnesota State University, Moorhead To successfully navigate today's challenges in education, regardless of the level, we need to find a way to create a culture of innovation and collaboration. Using practices... Continue Reading →
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Copy Course Materials to a New Course with Ease
OnlineDescription Copy Course Components is a tool in D2L Brightspace that enables you to copy materials from your existing courses into another course. When copying components, you can choose all or select individual items to copy into your course. Learn how you can save... Continue Reading →
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Manage Course Dates on a Single Screen
OnlineDescription The Start, End, and Due dates from most tools can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each individual tool and... Continue Reading →
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Virtual Reality Workshop @ Rochester Community and Technical College
RCTC - Coffman Hall 206/208 851 30th Ave SE, Rochester, MN, United StatesDon't miss out on this free opportunity for Minnesota State faculty, staff, and administrators to learn more about virtual reality and how you can use it in the classroom. Get... Continue Reading →
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Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently 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... Continue Reading →
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Video Based Assessments for Personalized Feedback
OnlineDescription Want students to give a presentation or demonstrate a skill through video? Video Assignment could be a great fit. Learners record or upload a video presenting on a topic... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Webinar – We Don’t Have Enough Staff Assigned to Making IT Accessible!
OnlineTopic: We Don’t Have Enough Staff Assigned to Making IT (Digital/Web Information) Accessible! Recorded Presenter: Sheryl Burgstahler, Director, Accessible Technology Services, University of Washington In this session the speaker will... Continue Reading →
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Quiz Creation Strategies and Timesaving Tips
OnlineDescription Interested in exploring how to save time when creating quizzes? You can learn how to shuffle questions, randomize them, draw from a set of questions, and more! The formerly... Continue Reading →
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Quick and Effective Feedback
Description Grading isn't just about giving your students a numerical score. It's also about providing formative feedback to help students improve their learning. During this session we will review some... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace Workshop: Gradebook
St. Cloud State University - Miller Center, Room B31 (basement) 400 6th St. S., St. Cloud, MN, United StatesHave 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... Continue Reading →
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