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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  • Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) – Start 2 Weeks

    Online

    Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric. Participants... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Applying the QM Rubric (2 week short course)

    Online

    June 1 – June 21  Description  QM’s flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in reviewing the design of online and blended courses is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors. It is particularly helpful to those new to QM or those considering... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy – Section 1 (3 week short course)

    Online

    Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - Section 1 June 1 – June 21  Description  How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to address educational disparities and meet the goals of Equity 2030? One promising path is to ground our practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the opportunity to critically reflect on our equity... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Assessment of Student Learning (3 week short course)

    Online

    June 8 – June 28  Description  How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended?  In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate student achievement... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Humanizing Your Course – Section 1 (3 week short course)

    Online

    June 15 – July 5  Description  This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no scheduled class... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week short course)

    Online

    Aligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools  June 15 – July 5  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... Continue Reading →

    Free

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