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  • Philosophy of Community and Technical College Education

    Summer 2025: Philosophy of Community and Technical Colleg​e Education

    Online

    Registration opens March 15 Course opens May 15 You may register for this course at anytime within the registration dates listed below. Course Terms The following table illustrates course term and registration dates. They will occur the same dates each year. You may register for this course at anytime within the registration dates listed below.... Continue Reading →

    Free

  • NED: Accessibility

    Accessible Course Documents (Fall 2025)

    August 25 - September 14, 2025 Short Course Description  This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course will introduce participants to basic techniques for using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint.  Additionally,... Continue Reading →

    Free

  • NED: Academic Technologies

    Regular and Substantive Interaction (Fall 2025)

    September 2 - 21, 2025 Short Course Description  Enhance your teaching toolkit with this 3-week course focused on regular and substantive interaction (What is regular and substantive interaction?). You'll apply equitable practices and technology tools to support student-instructor interaction. Whether you teach online, or you’d like to bring more interaction into your in-person courses, this... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED: Foundations

    Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Fall 2025)

    September 8 - 28, 2025 Short Course Description  In this course, we will review and enhance the design of your course to support student learning. We will focus on the key strategy of alignment. Alignment ensures that course content, activities, and assessments are directly connected to the learning objectives. This approach assures that students have... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED: Accessibility

    Disability Justice I (Fall 2025)

    September 22 - October 12, 2025 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,... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED: Academic Equity

    Equity and Advising (Fall 2025)

    September 29 - October 19, 2025 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 →

    Free

  • NED: Foundations

    Co-curricular Assessment (Fall 2025)

    October 13 - November 2, 2025 Short Course Description  Co-curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. This 3-week... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED: Accessibility

    Accessible Digital Media (Fall 2025)

    October 20 - November 9, 2025 Short Course Description  Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities,... Continue Reading →

    Free

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