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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This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice make 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 get an opportunity to updated web pages... Continue Reading →
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Webinars introducing open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. Faculty participating in this webinar may review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200.00 honorarium once the review is completed. Register here: https://open.umn.edu/otn/workshops/1-27-2020 Questions? Contact Karen Pikula,... Continue Reading → |
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RSVP for Part 2 on February 12, 2020! >>> Topic: Making Websites Usable, Not Just Accessible Part 1 Recorded Presenter: Karen Hawkins, Senior Experience Designer, Publicis.Sapient Almost anyone today can make a website accessible. But that doesn't mean that people using assistive technologies can USE them! I aim to change that. As a user experience... Continue Reading →
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Description Using the Annotation tool in D2L Brightspace, you can quickly complete your evaluation and feedback work directly from the Assignments tool, without the need to use any external tools or applications. You can use built-in annotation tools to markup submissions using highlighting, free hand drawing, shapes, and associated commenting. Attend this webinar to see... Continue Reading →
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Join Us Please register/RSVP and join us at https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/6181652382 for a guided tour of Zoom by from Minnesota State staff. Details about the Zoom Service Who can use Zoom? All active Minnesota State employees (faculty and staff) and students are able to access the service by logging in with their Star ID. How long do... Continue Reading →
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Description Get a taste of the 3-week short course Humanizing Your Course. In this webinar, we'll preview some strategies to make your online teaching more human and more engaging. Based on Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s work on instructor presence and humanizing online instruction, this webinar will showcase best practices in showing your human side in the online... Continue Reading →
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OER Learning Circles - Spring 2020 Applications due February 7, 2020 OER (open educational resources) Learning Circles provide faculty, from across the system and from any discipline, the opportunity to collaborate with others committed to redesigning courses, creating ancillary materials, or authoring to help eliminate textbook costs for students. In addition to virtual weekly meetings,... Continue Reading → |
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Description The Start, End, and Due dates from most tools can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each individual tool and opening each individual item to change dates, you can use Manage Dates to view all dates at once, with filtering, sorting and searching options. Discover... Continue Reading →
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Description Get a taste of the 3-week short course Humanizing Your Course. In this webinar, we'll preview some strategies to make your online teaching more human and more engaging. Based on Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s work on instructor presence and humanizing online instruction, this webinar will showcase best practices in showing your human side in the online... Continue Reading →
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Topic: Zoom: Striving for Functional Accessibility Recorded Presenter: Karen Hawkins, Senior Experience Designer, Publicis.Sapient Almost anyone today can make a website accessible. But that doesn't mean that people using assistive technologies can USE them! I aim to change that. As a user experience professional, I will walk the audience through more accessible AND usable implementations... Continue Reading →
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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 scheduled class meetings, participants may engage... Continue Reading →
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Description QM's flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in reviewing the design of online and blended courses is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors. It is particularly helpful to those new to QM or those considering the adoption of a quality... Continue Reading →
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Description We host a monthly webinar to showcase the new features or improvements to D2L Brightspace. This webinar will focus on version 20.20.02, the February release that you'll see in... Continue Reading →
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Description The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support student-to-content interaction in courses. Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed. Monitoring learning outcomes based on student interaction with content. Improving content as needed to facilitate learner outcomes. By the end of this three week course you... Continue Reading →
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Description Provide your students with Awards or Certificates after they successfully completed activities within your D2L Brightspace course site. Attend this webinar to see a hands on overview of how to use the these tools in your D2L Brightspace course. Connection Details Join this webinar by joining this Zoom meeting room on the day/time of... Continue Reading →
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Avenues to OER: A panel discussion There are many avenues to begin your OER journey, hear from two Minnesota State faculty members, Dan Allosso and Katie Nelson, who have experience authoring, redesigning, and collaborating on an open textbook. Karen Pikula, OER Faculty Development Coordinator, will moderate and offer her experiences running the OER Learning Circles.... Continue Reading →
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Topic: Building a Campus-Wide Universal Design framework from the Ground Up Recorded Presenter: Sheryl Burgstahler, Director, Accessible Technology Services, University of Washington UD (Universal Design) has emerged as framework for addressing diversity issues in the design of software, instruction, and student services. Engage with speaker and other participants about how promoting the UD paradigm to... Continue Reading →
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Description The Quick Eval tool in D2L Brightspace provides you a single location to view all unevaluated student submissions (Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes) from all your 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... Continue Reading →
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Join Us Please register/RSVP and join us at https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/6181652382 for a guided tour of Zoom from Minnesota State staff. Details about the Zoom Service Who can use Zoom? All active Minnesota State employees (faculty and staff) and students are able to access the service by logging in with their Star ID. How long do we... Continue Reading →
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The award-winning STAR Symposium celebrates excellence in teaching and learning by providing an avenue for individuals to share best practices, ideas, and resources with colleagues. This free virtual one-day conference includes presentations that focus on pedagogical approaches including delivery via face-to-face, blended, flipped and online classrooms. The STAR Symposium focuses on topics related to quality initiatives... Continue Reading →
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