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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D2L Brightspace: Creating and Evaluating an Assignment
OnlineDescription Explore the versatility of the Assignments (formerly called Dropbox) tool in D2L Brightspace. We’ll walk through the various types of assignments that can be set up and managed, and... Continue Reading →
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Universal Design for Learning: Quick Tips to Enhance Learning Experiences – January 2022
OnlineDescription Design accessibility, access, and equity in your courses – Universal Design for Learning is a framework that can help us address every students’ unique learning needs! This webinar is an overview of the Universal Design for Learning guidelines plus some simple ways to apply UDL in your online teaching and learning experiences. Participants will... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace: Creating and Evaluating Discussions
OnlineDescription Leverage the discussion tool to its greatest potential to enable students to engage in meaningful conversations that can take place over a period of time, allowing for reflection and... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice: Why It’s Everybody’s Business
OnlineDescription To better grasp what disability justice is, we’ll cover critical moments in disability history that everyone should know. We’ll examine how the past persists in current policies and attitudes today, but also note the wins in disability rights achieved thus far. We’ll also define ableism and provide examples of it. Lastly, we’ll share ways... 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 Minnesota. After the OEN Webinar, attendance will be taken. Attendees will receive a link to review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library... Continue Reading →
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Grade Smarter Not Harder: Spring 2022
OnlineJanuary 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... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Faculty Learning Community Spring 2022
OnlineJanuary 31 - April 24, 2022 Faculty Learning Community Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: February 2022
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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Faculty Development Series (session 2) 2021-22
OnlineFaculty Development’s Role in Supporting Equity and Inclusion How can faculty developers focus on equity and inclusion and support this work on their campus? Learn more about the facilitation of... Continue Reading →
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D2L: Improving Student-to-Content Interaction: Spring 2022
OnlineFebruary 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... Continue Reading →
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Hacking Your Course Assessments: Spring 2022
OnlineFebruary 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... Continue Reading →
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Universal Design for Learning: Quick Tips to Enhance Learning Experiences – February 2022
OnlineDescription Design accessibility, access, and equity in your courses – Universal Design for Learning is a framework that can help us address every students’ unique learning needs! This webinar is an overview of the Universal Design for Learning guidelines plus some simple ways to apply UDL in your online teaching and learning experiences. Participants will... Continue Reading →
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