Events

July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). OLC: Facilitating Online Group Work – Participants in this... Continue Reading →

July 15 - August 8, 2024 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown, indigenous, and people of color and builds on foundational disability justice topics in the context of higher education to move equity awareness into equity action.... Continue Reading →

July 22 - August 11, 2024 Short Course Description Learn to apply an equity lens to your teaching with technology. This course is an introduction to the principles of Universal... Continue Reading →

August 26 - September 15, 2024 Short Course Description  This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course introduces participants to basic techniques to using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint. Additionally, participants will get... Continue Reading →

September 9 - 29, 2024 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate... Continue Reading →

September 16 - October 6, 2024 Short Course Description  This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course... Continue Reading →

September 16 - October 6, 2024 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for... Continue Reading →

September 23 - October 13, 2024 Short Course Description This asynchronous 3-week course is offered for the purpose of providing both academic and faculty advisors with the information and resources... Continue Reading →

September 30 - October 20, 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 store your recordings. You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to... Continue Reading →

October 7 - November 3, 2024 Short Course Description This four-week short course is designed to build foundational skills and knowledge for engaging in the Equity by Design methodology. Equity by Design is a Minnesota State strategic priority informed by the work of McNair, Bensimon and others, who have shown that one path toward closing... Continue Reading →

October 7 - 27, 2024 Short Course Description In this 3-week introduction to disability justice course, you will learn about disability justice, practice using inclusive language, and apply strategies to interrupt ableism. You can expect to create documents and/or find ways to apply your learning right away, including options like: Write/revise inclusive accessibility statements, Draft... Continue Reading →

October 14 - November 3, 2024 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve through deliberate recall of skills and knowledge, spaced out over time, and reviewed along with other concepts. More than 100 years of educational research in... Continue Reading →