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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Minnesota State Law Enforcement Education Reform Taskforce Update (Webinar)
OnlineWith approximately 86 percent of Minnesota’s graduates in law enforcement graduating from one of the Minnesota State colleges or universities, we recognize our important role in advancing meaningful reforms in... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 7 - June 27, 2021 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 end... Continue Reading →
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Creating Accessible Course Documents: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 7 - June 27, 2021 Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making 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... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Online Course: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 7 - June 27, 2021 Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online: Summer 2021 (long course)
OnlineJune 7 - August 8, 2021 (Break 7/3 - 7/11) Course Learning Objectives Construct a course schedule, template, or outline that includes at least one learning objective for each module for your course. Create an alignment map with your learning objective(s), assessment tool, learning activities, and materials. Develop one assessment tool that will measure or... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning: Summer 2021 (Start 3 weeks)
OnlineJune 14 - July 3, 2021 Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 14 - July 4, 2021 Course Learning Objectives After completing the course, participants will be able to: Define basic language surrounding equity and inclusion Critically examine ideas about people,... Continue Reading →
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What’s new in D2L Brightspace: June 2021 (Webinar)
OnlineThis webinar will focus on new features and updated changes in the June 2021 release (version 20.21.06) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, June 17. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: A Deep Dive into Learning Objectives (Webinar Option 1)
OnlineDescription Spend some time creating aligned module objectives for your class! In this 1 hour webinar, we will go through a brief overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, practice writing learning objectives... Continue Reading →
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Effective Course Design: Self-Check (Webinar)
OnlineHave you ever asked yourself any of these questions about your online course? Why aren't my students able to find what they need? Are my students utilizing all the resources... Continue Reading →
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Applying Templates in D2L Brightspace (Webinar)
OnlineLearn 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 and page layouts... Continue Reading →
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Is Time an Issue? Finding Accessible Materials (Webinar)
OnlineDescription We all want to use teaching materials that are high quality, interesting, often open access, and we are making sure that they are accessible to all of our students. ... Continue Reading →
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