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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Creating a Culturally Responsive Syllabus (Summer 2024)
The course syllabus is, as William Germano and Kit Nicholls note in their subtitle of their 2020 book Syllabus, “The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything.” So, it’s the summer, the perfect time to be thinking about how you might consider elements within the syllabus that can remove barriers to understanding the system of your... Continue Reading →
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Replay of Part 4 – Experience Is Our Teacher: People with Disabilities on Allyship, Advocacy, and Pride (Summer 2024)
OnlineDescription This workshop aims to teach the audience about the richness and variety in the lived disability experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities (and of their families). We will share their advice on how to be better allies and how to advocate for yourself as well through self-advocacy tools. We will also show what... Continue Reading →
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Giving Powerful Feedback in the D2L Assignments Folder (Summer 2024)
The Assignments folder in D2L is the place where students can turn in written work, most commonly essays. In this interactive webinar, we’ll look at the Assignments tool and the ways we use it to give feedback that is both useful to students and a way of connecting with them. Come ready to share what... Continue Reading →
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Replay of Part 5 – From Vision to Action: Let’s Create Inclusive Classrooms, Campuses, and Communities (Summer 2024)
OnlineDescription This practical workshop will introduce innovative approaches and tools, such as person-centered thinking and human-centered design, that can be used to improve access and meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities and others historically left out of systems design. Examples of inclusive design to be shared include an inclusive syllabus template and the story of... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Content Pages Using HTML Templates in D2L Brightspace (Summer 2024)
This webinar will demonstration how to check (and fix!) the accessibility of your HTML Content pages in D2L Brightspace. While the pre-formatted HTML templates provide a starting point for creating accessible Content pages, it is important for content creators to understand how to build upon that starting point and ensure their pages are accessible for... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Student Assessments with Video or Audio Feedback (Summer 2024)
Video or Audio Feedback can be a powerful method for connecting with students in the online workspace. Creating personalized, specific feedback in strategic places in D2L can help students feel welcomed and engaged in their learning goals. In this webinar, we will explore the various places in D2L where video or audio feedback can be... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership Workshop: QM – Creating Presence in Your Online Course (Summer 2024)
July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through Quality Matters (QM). QM: Creating Presence in Your Online Course - Participants in this QM facilitated workshop will learn how to create three types of presence in online courses: instructor, social, and cognitive. Format: The partnership workshop includes synchronous... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101 (Summer 2024)
July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Description This short 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 how those affect our values... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership Workshop: OLC – Facilitating Online Group Work (Summer 2024)
July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). OLC: Facilitating Online Group Work – Participants in this self-paced workshop will dive deeper into the common reasons why groups fail, and provide effective strategies for designing, facilitating, and evaluating online group work. Format:... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice II (Summer 2024)
July 15 - August 8, 2024 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown, indigenous, and people of color and builds on foundational disability justice topics in the context of higher education to move equity awareness into equity action.... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: July 2024
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the July 2024 release (version 20.24.07) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, July 18. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.... Continue Reading →
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UDL: The Basics and how you can implement it into your courses (Summer 2024)
We all keep hearing about Universal Design for Learning, but what is it? If you try to do some research on it, you will find textbooks written about it. We are looking to break it down to some basic ideas and give faculty some ideas on how to get started without getting overwhelmed. RSVP Required... Continue Reading →
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