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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  • Pressbooks: Getting Your Stuff Organized (Webinar)

    Online

    Description Pressbooks is a software that we have available to us in Minnesota that functions as a free publishing tool. It can help you gather your various teaching materials into one place for students, functioning as a text for a course. In this webinar learn how to set up a Pressbooks account and learn the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Choosing a platform for your OER (Webinar)

    Online

    Part 1: Choosing a platform for your OER October 29, 2020 @ 1:00 - 2:00 pm Part 2 Part 3 Missed a webinar? Check the NED Resource Site for any available recordings or resources. Description Open Education Resources appear in many different formats and on many different platforms such as Pressbooks, Canvas, PDF, SoftChalk, and D2L. What are the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Working in Pressbooks: Adding OER Materials

    Online

    Description Pressbooks is a software made available for free to residents of Minnesota by the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project.  We will take some time to look through a couple of sample textbooks, and learn the basics about how to use Pressbooks.  Adding OER materials to the software will create a textbook-like layout, and allow you... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery: Spring 2022

    Online

    March 21 - April 10, 2022 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license.  It is easy to use and provides a variety of options for including media such as images and videos.  This short course will introduce you to the platform, walk you through creating... Continue Reading →

    Free

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