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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No Dumb Questions: The Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Edition
OnlineDescription At Lake Superior College, Kelli Hallsten Erickson and Amy Jo Swing, faculty members and coordinators in the Center for Faculty Innovation, take anonymous questions from faculty about instruction and... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: December 2021
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the December 2021 release (version 20.21.12) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, December 16. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Getting Equity-Ready for Spring
OnlineDescription Start off your semester strong by maximizing equity in your classroom. Join the Minnesota State Equity and Inclusion Coordinators in an interactive webinar that provides both insightful principles as... Continue Reading →
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Open Pedagogy Panel and Workshop
OnlineDescription The Open Pedagogy Panel and Workshop is a follow-up to December's OER Community Conversation (view the recording in the OER Community Site). During this panel, we will hear from experts who have implemented Open Pedagogy practices in their own courses and we will discuss both the benefits and challenges of this practices and how... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101 for Deans: Spring 2022 (3 week short course)
OnlineJanuary 10 - 30, 2022 Originally scheduled for November 22 - December 12, 2021. Description This course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace: Create Rubrics
OnlineDescription Learn how to create rubrics in D2L Brightspace to provide students with the components on which they will be evaluated prior to them submitting their work. An established rubric... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: January 2022
Topic: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Student-centered Course Design Description Instructional Designers from Minnesota State University Moorhead will share how they co-facilitate an instructional cohort focused on student-centered practices. Presenters... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: January 2022
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the January 2022 release (version 20.22.01) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, January 20. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace: Evaluating with Rubrics
OnlineDescription Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Discover various ways to align grading rubrics... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Spring 2022
OnlineOER Learning Circles Spring 2022 February 21 - May 1, 2022 Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace: Spring 2022
OnlineJanuary 24 - February 13, 2022 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. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace: Creating and Evaluating an Assignment
OnlineDescription Explore the versatility of the Assignments (formerly called Dropbox) tool in D2L Brightspace. We’ll walk through the various types of assignments that can be set up and managed, and... Continue Reading →
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