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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Announcements Tool in D2L Brightspace
OnlineThe Announcements on your D2L Brightspace course home page can help you communicate information to students and provide an additional avenue for student-teacher engagement. Learn tips for making the most of this tool to help you save time and reach students each time they enter your course. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: January 2023 (20.23.01)
OnlineThis webinar will focus on new features and changes in the January 2023 release (version 20.23.01) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, January 19. 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... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Spring 2023
OnlineOER Learning Circles Spring 2023 February 21 - May 1 Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing,... Continue Reading →
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Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Community: Spring 2023
OnlineJanuary 25 - April 21 Dates vary by discipline Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Communities REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 20, 2023 Spring 2023 Disciplines: Accounting, Health and Exercise Science, Economics, Math, and Cross-Discipline (prior approval required) Description Minnesota State received funding through the Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund managed by Minnesota’s Office of Higher Education to support faculty... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design
OnlineJanuary 23 - February 12, 2023 Short Course (This short course was previously titled Humanizing Your Online Course) Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media
OnlineJanuary 24 - February 12, 2023 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... Continue Reading →
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OEN Webinar
OnlineOpen Education Network (OEN) Webinars introduce Minnesota State faculty and staff to open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. After the OEN Webinar, attendance will be taken. Attendees will receive a link to review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Learning Community
OnlineJanuary 30 - April 23, 2023 Faculty Learning Community Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the... Continue Reading →
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Create materials with HTML and HTML Content templates
OnlineGet a jump-start on creating your course Content by making use of some pre-built HTML template files available to you when building your online course materials. This webinar will walk through the steps of selecting and revising the templates to make your class shine. Dress up your class and save time with templates that are... Continue Reading →
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Creating Equity Through Connection: Connecting with your institution
OnlineFaculty Developer's Series Creating Equity Through Connection: Connecting with your institution February 1 @ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Virtual Register for the other events in the series: October 4, 2022 | April 14, 2023 How can educational developers focus on Equity 2030 and Guided Learning Pathways (GLP) and support this work on their... Continue Reading →
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Manage Dates in D2L Brightspace
OnlineThe Start, End, and Due dates from most tools in D2L Brightspace can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each individual tool and opening each individual item to change dates, you can use Manage Dates to view all dates at once, with filtering, sorting and searching... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: February
OnlineDescription In this webinar, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more! Submit... Continue Reading →
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