NED Events Calendar

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

    Online

    Humanizing 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 →

    Free
  • Group Discussions to Promote Student Engagement

    Online

    Description 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 that can take place over a period of time, allowing for reflection and thoughtful interaction. Attend this webinar to watch an overview of how to... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Bringing the Finding Your Place College Podcast to Your Campus

    Online

    Find 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 →

    Free
  • Kaltura Service Updates for Fall 2019

    Online

    Description 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, November 21. New Provider of Machine Captioning Services Although you still order "machine" captions, under the Actions button, you'll the ording process looks just a... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Gradebook in Brightspace

    Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Description 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 where we will spend one hour reviewing the features and functions of the tool, and then an hour working on your own gradebook in one... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Engaging use of the Discussion tool in Brightspace

    Minneapolis College - room T.3800 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Description 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 introduces the features of online discussions and includes tips on how to get the most out of this venue. The first half of the workshop... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)

    Online

    Description 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 learning outcomes based on student interaction with content. Improving content as needed to facilitate learner outcomes. By the end of this three week course you... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • What’s New in D2L Brightspace 20.19.11?

    Online

    Description 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 D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, November 21. RSVP Requested Using the RSVP below allows us to send you reminders about this event and share important information... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Classroom Assessment Techniques

    Online

    Description 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 remediation or encouragement and praise in a timely manner. They also help break up the monotony of group discussions, papers, and presentations. During this session... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Humanizing Your Course Design

    Online

    Humanizing 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 Consultant Ken Graetz will preview some strategies to make the design of your online course more human and more equitable. Based on Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s work... Continue Reading →

    Free

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