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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  • SoTL Toolkit: Primer on Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry

    Online

    The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) guides us as instructors to engage in continuous review, revision, and renewal of our teaching practices to support student learning. With SoTL, we ask questions like "What will happen after I implement this revision policy?"; "Does this assessment format work better than others?", and "How much more or... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Using D2L Awards Tool for Instructor Communication

    Online

    Join an informative webinar about using the D2L Awards tool as one form of instructor-to-student interaction. Badges not only can be designed to reward excellent outcomes on assignments but also to recognize important college-level skills such as communication, participation, or study practices. Creating badges using various criteria will be demonstrated, which will allow participants to... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • What’s New in D2L Brightspace: March 2023

    Online

    This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the March 2023 release (version 20.23.03) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, March 16. 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 →

    Free
  • D2L: Quick Eval tool

    Online

    The Quick Eval tool provides a single location to view all unevaluated student submissions (Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes) from all Brightspace courses. You can sort, filter and search to prioritize which items you want to assess first. Become acquainted with the Quick Eval tool so you can save in your assessment and grading. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Grade Smarter Not Harder

    Online

    March 20 - April 9, 2023 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • OEN Webinar

    Online

    Open 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 →

  • D2L: New Content Experience

    Online

    Brightspace is getting a refresh of its Content experience. D2L suggests they have focused on a clean visual presentation of content for educators and learners. D2L has developed an experience... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • New Content Experience (repeat session)

    Online

    Brightspace is getting a refresh of its Content experience. D2L suggests they have focused on a clean visual presentation of content for educators and learners. D2L has developed an experience... Continue Reading →

    Free

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