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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Humanizing Your Online Course (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 21 - October 4 Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace – Option 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 28 - October 18 Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of... Continue Reading →
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Creating Accessible Course Documents (3 week short course)
OnlineOctober 12 - November 1 Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice make digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader.... Continue Reading →
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Improving Online Assessments (3 week short course)
OnlineOctober 12 - November 1 Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you... Continue Reading →
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Applying Templates in D2L Brightspace (2 week short course)
OnlineOctober 12 - October 23 Description Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or an experienced user of D2L Brightspace, you can use the pre-formatted HTML Templates and... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom – Option 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineOctober 19 - November 8 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... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (3 week short course)
OnlineOctober 19 - November 8 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... Continue Reading →
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Improving your Online Course via Quality Matters -Option 2 (2 week short course)
OnlineOctober 26 - November 6 Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning (Start 3 weeks)
OnlineNovember 2 - November 22 Description 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 your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate... Continue Reading →
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Improving Student-to-Content Interaction – Option 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineNovember 2 - November 22 Description By the end of this three week short course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Content, HTML Editor, and Release Conditions) to improve the student-to-content interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the Content tool, tips... Continue Reading →
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Applying the QM Rubric – Option 2 (2 week short course)
OnlineNovember 9 - November 22 Description QM’s flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in reviewing the design of online and blended courses is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors. It is particularly helpful to those new to QM or those considering... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning – Option 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineNovember 30 - December 20 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. Here is what participants will do in this course: Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course module... Continue Reading →
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