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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Virtual Reality Workshop @ Rochester Community and Technical College
RCTC - Coffman Hall 206/208 851 30th Ave SE, Rochester, MN, United StatesDon't miss out on this free opportunity for Minnesota State faculty, staff, and administrators to learn more about virtual reality and how you can use it in the classroom. Get an introduction to VR Learn about how VR is used in education Gain awareness of VR opportunities in Minnesota State Discover how to incorporate VR... Continue Reading →
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Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support student-to-content interaction in courses. Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed. Monitoring... Continue Reading →
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Video Based Assessments for Personalized Feedback
OnlineDescription Want students to give a presentation or demonstrate a skill through video? Video Assignment could be a great fit. Learners record or upload a video presenting on a topic or demonstrating a specific skill. You can grade video assessments and add time-stamped feedback, showing learners exactly where they need to improve. Attend this webinar... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Webinar – We Don’t Have Enough Staff Assigned to Making IT Accessible!
OnlineTopic: We Don’t Have Enough Staff Assigned to Making IT (Digital/Web Information) Accessible! Recorded Presenter: Sheryl Burgstahler, Director, Accessible Technology Services, University of Washington In this session the speaker will engage with attendees on promising practices for making the most of limited resources toward a more accessible campus environment. Topics will include such things as... Continue Reading →
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Quiz Creation Strategies and Timesaving Tips
OnlineDescription Interested in exploring how to save time when creating quizzes? You can learn how to shuffle questions, randomize them, draw from a set of questions, and more! The formerly cumbersome nature of creating quiz questions. Participants will walk away with skills they can use to save time when creating questions. Attend this webinar to... Continue Reading →
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Quick and Effective Feedback
Description Grading isn't just about giving your students a numerical score. It's also about providing formative feedback to help students improve their learning. During this session we will review some techniques to provide meaningful feedback without overwhelming the instructor. Learning Objectives Define formative feedback Describe 2-3 methods for providing quick feedback Identify a resource for... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace Workshop: Gradebook
St. Cloud State University - Miller Center, Room B31 (basement) 400 6th St. S., St. Cloud, MN, United StatesHave you always wanted to find the most efficient way to set up your gradebook in Brightspace? Have specific questions you’d like answered? Join us for the Gradebook workshop where we will spend one hour reviewing the features and functions of the tool, and then an hour working on your own gradebook in one of... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace Workshop: Rubrics
St. Cloud State University - Miller Center, Room B31 (basement) 400 6th St. S., St. Cloud, MN, United StatesDo you want to provide consistent feedback to students in a timely manner? Do you get bogged down in the process of evaluating and commenting on student work? Learn how the Rubrics tool in Brightspace can save you time, provide students with meaningful feedback, and encourage growth in students’ abilities. We will spend one hour... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something... Continue Reading →
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Release Conditions to Guide the Learning Path
OnlineDescription Release conditions enable the instructor to guide the path for student learning by releasing items to students in a prescribed order, encouraging the student to attain mastery of skills... Continue Reading →
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CTE Works! Summit
In-PersonCTE Works! Summit: Connecting Learning to Earning The annual Minnesota CTE Works! Summit connects educators, advisors, and administrators from high schools and colleges with workforce developers, business and industry partners, and our... Continue Reading →
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HTML Editor Tips and Tricks
OnlineDescription Is the HTML editor a mystery to you? Learn to use it in the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) view with all its bells and whistles,... Continue Reading →
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