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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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Summer 2024)
June 10 - June 30, 2024 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 (CRP). In this introductory course, we’ll have... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with Video Technologies (Summer 2024)
June 10 - June 30, 2024 Short Course Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to... Continue Reading →
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Replay of Part 3 – New Ways to Talk about Disability (Summer 2024)
OnlineDescription People often talk about disability in outdated ways because they have never had to question it.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 In fact, our outdated language grew out of what are called the “pity” and “medical” disability models or frames.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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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: June 2024
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the June 2024 release (version 20.24.06) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, June 20. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Creating a Culturally Responsive Syllabus (Summer 2024)
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 summer,... Continue Reading →
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Replay of Part 4 – Experience Is Our Teacher: People with Disabilities on Allyship, Advocacy, and Pride (Summer 2024)
OnlineDescription This workshop aims to teach the audience about the richness and variety in the lived disability experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities (and of their families). We will share their advice on how to be better allies and how to advocate for yourself as well through self-advocacy tools. We will also show what... Continue Reading →
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Giving Powerful Feedback in the D2L Assignments Folder (Summer 2024)
The Assignments folder in D2L is the place where students can turn in written work, most commonly essays. In this interactive webinar, we’ll look at the Assignments tool and the ways we use it to give feedback that is both useful to students and a way of connecting with them. Come ready to share what... Continue Reading →
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Replay of Part 5 – From Vision to Action: Let’s Create Inclusive Classrooms, Campuses, and Communities (Summer 2024)
OnlineDescription This practical workshop will introduce innovative approaches and tools, such as person-centered thinking and human-centered design, that can be used to improve access and meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities and others historically left out of systems design. Examples of inclusive design to be shared include an inclusive syllabus template and the story of... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Content Pages Using HTML Templates in D2L Brightspace (Summer 2024)
This webinar will demonstration how to check (and fix!) the accessibility of your HTML Content pages in D2L Brightspace. While the pre-formatted HTML templates provide a starting point for creating accessible Content pages, it is important for content creators to understand how to build upon that starting point and ensure their pages are accessible for... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Student Assessments with Video or Audio Feedback (Summer 2024)
Video or Audio Feedback can be a powerful method for connecting with students in the online workspace. Creating personalized, specific feedback in strategic places in D2L can help students feel welcomed and engaged in their learning goals. In this webinar, we will explore the various places in D2L where video or audio feedback can be... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership Workshop: QM – Creating Presence in Your Online Course (Summer 2024)
July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through Quality Matters (QM). QM: Creating Presence in Your Online Course - Participants in this QM facilitated workshop will learn how to create three types of presence in online courses: instructor, social, and cognitive. Format: The partnership workshop includes synchronous... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101 (Summer 2024)
July 8 - August 4, 2024 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect our values... Continue Reading →
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