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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Humanizing your Course Facilitation
OnlineHumanizing your Course Facilitation November 7, 2019 | 11:00-11:50am Get a taste of the 3-week short course Humanizing Your Course coming in December 2019. Instructor Amy Jo Swing and Coach... Continue Reading →
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Rubrics to Save Time Evaluating Student Work
OnlineDescription Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Rubrics can be utilized as both a... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Webinar – Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 1
OnlineTopic: Evaluating and Repairing Word and PowerPoint Files – Part 1 Recorded Presenter: Jonathan Whiting, Director of Training & Evaluation, WebAIM In this hands-on workshop, learn to evaluate and repair... Continue Reading →
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Group Discussions to Promote Student Engagement
OnlineDescription Want to encourage your students to interact more and share ideas and perspectives? Leverage the discussion tool to its greatest potential to enable students to enage in meaningful conversations... Continue Reading →
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Bringing the Finding Your Place College Podcast to Your Campus
OnlineFind and listen to episodes on SoundCloud In 2018, Robert Jersak (Century College) and Dave Engen (Minnesota State University, Mankato) received a Minnesota State Shark Tank Open Innovation grant (log in using your StarID@minnstate.edu) to create a podcast series for mentoring and supporting first-year and first-generation college students. The podcast features six student producers sharing their insights... Continue Reading →
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Kaltura Service Updates for Fall 2019
OnlineDescription This webinar will showcase the new features and improvements available to users of Kaltura services. This webinar will focus on the updates you'll see starting in Kaltura on Thursday,... Continue Reading →
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Gradebook in Brightspace
Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesDescription Have you always wanted to find the most efficient way to set up your gradebook in Brightspace? Have specific questions you’d like answered? Join us for the Gradebook workshop... Continue Reading →
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Engaging use of the Discussion tool in Brightspace
Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesDescription Looking for strategies to get students engaged with one another? Want to use the Discussion tool, but not sure how to get started? Join us for a workshop that... Continue Reading →
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Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription 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... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace 20.19.11?
OnlineDescription We host a monthly webinar to showcase the new features or improvements to D2L Brightspace. This webinar will focus on version 20.19.11, the November release that you'll see in... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Assessment Techniques
OnlineDescription Classroom Assessment Techniques are quick and useful formative assessments that give an instructor information about where their students are in their learning journey. They can be used to provide... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Course Design
OnlineHumanizing your Course Design November 19, 2019 | 1:00-1:50pm Get a taste of the 3-week short course Humanizing Your Course coming in December 2019. Instructor Amy Jo Swing and Coach... Continue Reading →
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