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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New Discussion Date Settings in D2L Brightspace: October 2021
OnlineDescription The date settings in Discussions will soon be changing significantly. This webinar will provide an overview of what’s changing and how the changes correlate to the current settings, with... Continue Reading →
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Awards and Certificates in D2L Brightspace
OnlineDescription Provide your students with Awards (Badges) or Certificates after they successfully complete activities within your D2L Brightspace course. These awards can serve as incentives and proof of achievements to... Continue Reading →
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Create materials with HTML and HTML Content templates
OnlineDescription Get a jump-start on creating your course Content in D2L Brightspace by making use of some pre-built HTML template files available to you when building your online course materials.... Continue Reading →
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Data Literacy and Equity Strategies
OnlineIn partnership with the Office of Equity and Inclusion Description How comfortable are you with using data to improve equity? The terms, “evidence base”, “data informed” and “data literacy” have... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineNovember 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... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Technology: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineNovember 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,... Continue Reading →
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Quiz Submission Views
OnlineDescription Learn to use the Quiz Submission Views in D2L Brightspace to enhance student learning. Determine the best settings to provide students with quiz feedback in a timely and effective... Continue Reading →
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Copy Courses and Manage Dates in D2L
OnlineDescription Copy Course Components is a tool in D2L Brightspace that enables you to copy materials from your existing courses into another course. When copying components, you can choose all... Continue Reading →
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Working in Pressbooks: Adding OER Materials
OnlineDescription Pressbooks is a software made available for free to residents of Minnesota by the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project. We will take some time to look through a couple of... Continue Reading →
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New Discussion Date Settings in D2L Brightspace: November 2021
OnlineDescription The date settings in Discussions will soon be changing significantly. This webinar will provide an overview of what’s changing and how the changes correlate to the current settings, 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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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: November 2021
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the November 2021 release (version 20.21.11) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, November 18. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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