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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  • Manage Course Dates to Improve Student Engagement: Fall 2022

    Online

    October 24 - November 13, 2022 Short Course Description  By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including the Import/Export/Copy Components, Manage Dates, and Brightspace Pulse) to effectively course facilitation for student motivation.  You will be provided with efficient ways to offset dates from previously offered courses,... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity and Technology: Fall 2022

    Online

    November 7 - November 27, 2022 Short Course Description Learn to apply an equity lens to your teaching with technology. This course is an introduction to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as an equity framework. Explore ways to design courses that address access, accessibility, as well as equitable learning outcomes. In this... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Fall 2022

    Online

    November 14 - December 4, 2022 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • OER Learning Circle Applications Due – Spring 2023

    Online

    OER 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, to permit their free reuse, continuous improvement, and re-purposing by others for educational purposes (UNESCO). OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos,... Continue Reading →

  • Empathy by Design

    Online

    January 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 or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Accessible Digital Media

    Online

    January 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 →

    Free
  • Classroom Inquiry and IRB

    Online

    February 13 – March 5, 2023 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity 101

    Online

    February 21 - April 2, 2023 Short Course Description This six week short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Grade Smarter Not Harder

    Online

    March 20 - April 9, 2023 Short Course (This course was previously titled Improving Online Assessments) Description  Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it... Continue Reading →

    Free

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