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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Designing Your Course for Student Learning: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 13 - October 3, 2021 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 able to:... Continue Reading →
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Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineSeptember 13 - October 3, 2021 Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Classlist, Email, Intelligent Agents, personalized Announcements, and private Discussions) to improve instructor-to-student interactions. You will be provided with efficient ways to email students, tips and tricks to personalize communication for students,... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Faculty Learning Community Fall 2021
OnlineSeptember 13 - December 5, 2021 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 course, we’ll have the opportunity to examine... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2021
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the September 2021 release (version 20.21.09) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, September 16. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Leveraging the Groups tool for greater student interaction
OnlineDescription Discover various ways to leverage the Groups tool to allow students to choose their own small groups or to randomly place students in groups. Use the groups tool in... Continue Reading →
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Create Rubrics to Evaluate Student Work
OnlineDescription Learn how to create rubrics in Brightspace to provide students with the components on which they will be evaluated prior to them submitting their work. An established rubric with... 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... Continue Reading →
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Using Existing Rubrics to Save Time Evaluating Student Work
OnlineDescription Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Discover various ways to align grading rubrics... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: September 2021
OnlineDescription When colleagues readied themselves for emergency remote teaching in 2020, we all received a powerful reminder in the value of social learning. Colleagues from across the system who had... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning 2
OnlineDescription Spend some time creating aligned module objectives for your class! In this 1 hour webinar, we will go through a brief overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, practice writing learning objectives... Continue Reading →
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Is Time an Issue? Finding Accessible Materials
OnlineDescription You want to teach with accessible online materials, but don't really know where to look. Here's a chance to see some options, and to share with others something that... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: September 2021
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. View all OER Events. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool... Continue Reading →
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