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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Calculating Grades in the Gradebook (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Trying to figure out the details of gradebook settings and how calculations are performed in a D2L Brightspace course? Want to learn the options for how your students view... Continue Reading →
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Writing Effective Assessment Questions – Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you’ll learn principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests by exploring... Continue Reading →
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Pulse App for Student Engagement (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Brightspace Pulse is a mobile app that helps students keep track of important dates. It brings announcements, deadlines, and grades from all courses together in one place so students... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: October
OnlineDescription: In this webinar, host Karen Pikula will answer questions that were commonly asked in OEN Webinars, Koffee with Karen, and the OER Learning Circles. Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. Submit an OER Question RSVP RSVP below to register and receive the Zoom URL... Continue Reading →
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Equity in Online Environments (Webinar)
OnlineEquity in Practice Series – Addressing Equity and Building Stronger Relationships with Students Other events in the series: Equity in Practice Series Equity in Online Environments Description In this webinar... Continue Reading →
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Pressbooks: Getting Your Stuff Organized (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Pressbooks is a software that we have available to us in Minnesota that functions as a free publishing tool. It can help you gather your various teaching materials into... Continue Reading →
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OER Next Steps: Advocacy and Integration
OnlineThe 4th OER Librarian's Workshop Day has been reconfigured into a virtual format and presents 2 separate entry points for engagement based on background knowledge and experience. Entry Point #2: OER Next Steps: Advocacy & Integration October 9, 2020 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm View Entry Point #1 Description This virtual event is for... Continue Reading →
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Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue 1 (Webinar)
OnlinePersonal Learning as Part of Educational Development: A NED Affiliated Series Other events in the series: Recognizing Political Affiliation as a Social Identity Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue... Continue Reading →
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Creating Accessible Course Documents (3 week short course)
OnlineOctober 12 - November 1 Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice make 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, participants will get... Continue Reading →
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Improving Online Assessments (3 week short course)
OnlineOctober 12 - November 1 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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Applying Templates in D2L Brightspace (2 week short course)
OnlineOctober 12 - October 23 Description Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or an experienced user of D2L Brightspace, you can use the pre-formatted HTML Templates and Course Template as starting points when designing a new course or re-designing an existing course. The templates provide you with example materials and course layout... Continue Reading →
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What’s new in D2L Brightspace 20.20.10 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.10, the October release that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, October 15. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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