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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  • Humanizing Your Online Course: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)

    Online

    October 25 - November 14, 2021 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 design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Creating Accessible Course Documents: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)

    Online

    October 25 - November 14, 2021 Description  This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)

    Online

    November 1 - November 21, 2021 This short course was previously scheduled for September 27 - October 17 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity and Technology: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)

    Online

    November 1 - November 21, 2021 Course Learning Objectives  Through engaging in the work of the training, faculty will be able to: Understand how we can design our online, hybrid, blended, and hyflex courses with equity in mind Intentionally create relationships with our students Better understand how to help the students navigate all of the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Grade Smarter Not Harder: Spring 2022

    Online

    January 31 - February 20, 2022 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 can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you’ll examine and apply principles... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • D2L: Improving Student-to-Content Interaction: Spring 2022

    Online

    February 7 - February 27, 2022 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Hacking Your Course Assessments: Spring 2022

    Online

    February 7 - February 27, 2022 Short Course (This course was previously titled Assessment of Student Learning) 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity 101: Spring 2022

    Online

    February 21 - April 3, 2022 Short Course Description This course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate... Continue Reading →

    Free

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