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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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 7 – September 26, 2021 Description You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of this three–week course you will be able to identify and... Continue Reading →
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Manage Course Dates on a Single Screen
OnlineDescription The 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... Continue Reading →
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Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication with Private Discussions
OnlineDescription Private discussions have multiple uses in Brightspace. You can communicate with students one-on-one, keep track of student to instructor communication, and encourage students to keep a reflective journal. You can use private discussions as a means of aiding reflection, deepening students understanding, and stimulating critical thinking. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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Securing Your Online Zoom Session
OnlineDescription Explore best practices in securely scheduling, managing and distributing information about virtual sessions in Zoom. Zoom has implemented new security features and in meeting controls to allow hosts to manage the potential threats that could impacted unsecure sessions. In this 50 minute webinar we will look at the new Security Control center and offer... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 13 - October 3, 2021 Description This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master. Course Learning Objectives After completing this course, you will be able to:... Continue Reading →
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Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 13 - October 3, 2021 Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Classlist, Email, Intelligent Agents, personalized Announcements, and private Discussions) to improve instructor-to-student interactions. You will be provided with efficient ways to email students, tips and tricks to personalize communication for students,... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Faculty Learning Community Fall 2021
OnlineSeptember 13 - December 5, 2021 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 opportunity to examine... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2021
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the September 2021 release (version 20.21.09) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, September 16. 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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Leveraging the Groups tool for greater student interaction
OnlineDescription Discover various ways to leverage the Groups tool to allow students to choose their own small groups or to randomly place students in groups. Use the groups tool in Brightspace to facilitate small group discussion and group projects for face-to-face or online courses. Learn the ins and outs of evaluating small group projects and... Continue Reading →
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Create Rubrics to Evaluate Student Work
OnlineDescription Learn how to create rubrics in Brightspace to provide students with the components on which they will be evaluated prior to them submitting their work. An established rubric with initial standardized feedback helps to provide objective and consistent assessment to students. It saves you time evaluating and grading, while also providing the option of... Continue Reading →
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Open Education Network 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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Using Existing Rubrics to Save Time Evaluating Student Work
OnlineDescription Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Discover various ways to align grading rubrics (or rubrics for outcome evaluation) with learning activities to keep track of student achievement. Learn the ins and outs of utilizing rubrics as both an... Continue Reading →
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