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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  • Best of the Minnesota Summit Webinars

    Online

    Are We Doing Enough to Help Faculty Teach Online? Thursday, January 16, 2020 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. CST Presented by: Elizabeth Harsma, Minnesota State University, Mankato A recent survey of public colleges and university provosts on online education reported that even as institutions' expectations for online learning capacity and quality grow, training, and support for... Continue Reading →

  • Creating Accessible Documents – 3 week short course begins

    Online

    This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice make digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course will introduce participants to basic techniques for using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint.  Additionally, participants will get an opportunity to updated web pages... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Open Textbook Network Webinar

    Online

    Webinars introducing open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota.  Faculty participating in this webinar may review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200.00 honorarium once the review is completed. Register here: https://open.umn.edu/otn/workshops/1-27-2020 Questions? Contact Karen Pikula,... Continue Reading →

  • Accessibility Webinar – Making Websites Usable, Not Just Accessible Part 1

    Online

    RSVP for Part 2 on February 12, 2020! >>> Topic: Making Websites Usable, Not Just Accessible Part 1 Recorded Presenter: Karen Hawkins, Senior Experience Designer, Publicis.Sapient Almost anyone today can make a website accessible. But that doesn't mean that people using assistive technologies can USE them! I aim to change that. As a user experience... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Annotations in Assignment Submissions

    Online

    Description Using the Annotation tool in D2L Brightspace, you can quickly complete your evaluation and feedback work directly from the Assignments tool, without the need to use any external tools... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Humanizing your Course Facilitation

    Online

    Description Get a taste of the 3-week short course Humanizing Your Course.  In this webinar, we'll preview some strategies to make your online teaching more human and more engaging. Based... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • OER Learning Circles – Spring 2020 Applications Due (Learning Community)

    Online

    OER Learning Circles - Spring 2020 Applications due February 7, 2020 OER (open educational resources) Learning Circles provide faculty, from across the system and from any discipline, the opportunity to collaborate with others committed to redesigning courses, creating ancillary materials, or authoring to help eliminate textbook costs for students. In addition to virtual weekly meetings,... Continue Reading →

  • Humanizing Your Course Design

    Online

    Description Get a taste of the 3-week short course Humanizing Your Course.  In this webinar, we'll preview some strategies to make your online teaching more human and more engaging. Based... Continue Reading →

    Free

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