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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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy – Section 1 (3 week short course)
OnlineCulturally 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... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 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... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Course – Section 1 (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 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 →
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Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning 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 →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace June 29 – July 19 Description This spring, you may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 6 – July 26 Description This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master. Here is what participants will do in this course: Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course module... Continue Reading →
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Improving Student-to-Content Interaction (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools July 6 – July 26 Description The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways 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... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Course – Section 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 13 – August 2 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... Continue Reading →
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Improving Online Assessments – Section 1 (3 week short course)
OnlineImproving Online Assessments July 13 – August 2 Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you'll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz and test questions.... Continue Reading →
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Improving your Online Course via Quality Matters (2 week short course)
OnlineJuly 13 – July 24 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... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy – Section 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineCulturally Responsive Pedagogy July 20 – August 9 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 gap data and examine... Continue Reading →
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Improving Online Assessments – Section 2 (3 week short course)
Improving Online Assessments July 27 – August 16 Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you'll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz... Continue Reading →
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