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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Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our... Continue Reading →
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Logins and Captions and Breakouts, Oh My!
OnlineA look at common issues in Zoom and how to avoid them. Has anyone ever entered your room without your permission when you thought you had the waiting room enabled?... Continue Reading →
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Finding and Using Open Educational Resources
OnlineLooking for that perfect image to insert into your PowerPoint slide? Searching for a soundtrack for your course welcome video? If you mix Creative Commons licensed work into your own creations, how do you cite that work? Can you share copies of it? In this webinar, we will explore some popular repositories of Creative Commons... Continue Reading →
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Applying Content Page Templates in D2L Brightspace 2
OnlineThis webinar will demonstrate how you can use the pre-formatted HTML templates as a starting point for creating Content pages in D2L Brightspace. The templates provide you with example materials... Continue Reading →
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D2L: Improving Student to Content interaction: Summer 2022
OnlineAugust 1 - August 21, 2022 Short Course Description By the end of this three week short course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Content, HTML... Continue Reading →
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Grade Smarter Not Harder: Summer 2022
OnlineAugust 1 - August 21, 2022 Short Course (This course was previously titled Improving Online Assessments) Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Technologies in the Higher Education Classroom
OnlineLearn how to be intentional in choosing classroom technologies based on a humanizing perspective. We will explore how technologies can be used to humanize a course and which technologies can... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: May – July 2022
OnlineGet up to date on all the changes to Brightspace that were implemented over the summer of 2022. This session will include updates that occurred from May 2022-July 2022. (The... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace Overview
OnlineIf you are new to using D2L Brightspace, or would like a refresher, attend this overview session where we will take a look at some of the most commonly used... Continue Reading →
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Application of antiracist pedagogy: Summer 2022
OnlineThis webinar will introduce how to apply antiracist values and praxis into classroom teaching, with a specific focus on community building. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. ... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace Overview
OnlineIf you are new to using D2L Brightspace, or would like a refresher, attend this overview session where we will take a look at some of the most commonly used... Continue Reading →
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