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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Events
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: March 2022
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the March 2022 release (version 20.22.03) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, March 17. 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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A Framework for Antiracist Praxis: March 2022
OnlineDescription Join Darlene St. Clair and Melissa Prescott, instructors of the Introduction to Antiracist Pedagogy short course, for an introduction to antiracist pedagogy and the continuous cycle of antiracist praxis.... Continue Reading →
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Application of Antiracist Pedagogy: Building Community in the Classroom: March 2022
OnlineDescription Join Darlene St. Clair, Melissa Prescott, and the SCSU Online & Distance Learning team in a discussion of applying antiracist pedagogy through classroom community building. A specific focus will... Continue Reading →
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Creating a Culturally Responsive Syllabus
OnlineDescription The course syllabus is, as William Germano and Kit Nicholls note in their subtitle of their 2020 book Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything. So, it’s the middle of the semester, but it’s never too soon to be thinking about how you might consider elements within the syllabus that can remove barriers to... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Spring 2022
OnlineMarch 21 - April 10, 2022 Short Course 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 introductory course, we’ll have the... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design: Spring 2022
OnlineMarch 21 - April 10, 2022 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... Continue Reading →
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Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery: Spring 2022
OnlineMarch 21 - April 10, 2022 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license. It is easy to use and provides a variety of options for including media such as images and videos. This short course will introduce you to the platform, walk you through creating... 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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Equity Book Group: March 2022
OnlineDescription This is a statewide opportunity to read, discuss, interact, share, and learn with a book on a topic relevant to our work and create action plans to create more... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media: Spring 2022
OnlineMarch 28 - April 17, 2022 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 →
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OER FAQ: March 2022
OnlineDescription In this webinar, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more! Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. Submit a question beforehand View all OER Events. RSVP Required... Continue Reading →
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New Ways to Talk about Disability
OnlineDescription People often talk about disability in outdated ways because they have never had to question it. Such ableist language, however, is rooted in the ongoing trauma experienced by many people with disabilities. In fact, our outdated language grew out of what are called the “pity” and “medical” disability models or frames. This workshop aims... Continue Reading →
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