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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June 1 – June 21 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... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - Section 1 June 1 – June 21 Description How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to address educational disparities and meet the goals of Equity 2030? One promising path is to ground our practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the opportunity to critically reflect on our equity... Continue Reading →
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Description The Classlist and Email tools in D2L Brightspace enable teachers and students to interact with each other. Come learn about best practices along with tips and tricks to using... Continue Reading →
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Description Dive into some of the topics featured in the Minnesota State three week short course “Designing Your Course for Student Learning” beginning on July 6, 2020. Preview some of... Continue Reading →
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The Minnesota State Office of Equity and Inclusion will be launching Equity by Design system-wide on June 24-25, 2020. In preparation for the launch, we are hosting this webinar which will focus on setting the stage to prepare campuses in undertaking Equity by Design. Webinar Topics: Equity by Design Overview Purpose of Equity by Design... Continue Reading →
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Description Coming soon! RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you reminder emails as the event date gets closer, but... Continue Reading →
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Description Participants will review two common approaches to defining humanized learning, learn how national standards for online course quality incorporate humanizing strategies, and evaluate their current courses and practices to... Continue Reading →
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Background In 2019, professors Robert Jersak (Century College) and Dave Engen (Minnesota State University, Mankato) teamed up with a diverse group of six students to produce The Finding Your Place... Continue Reading → |
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Description This webinar offers a look at what using a screen reader looks like, and how in our digital world, which includes many more of us than it did 3... Continue Reading →
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Description Participants will be guided through interactive demonstrations of five specific humanizing practices they could integrate in to their own online courses. Each demonstration will focus on a specific evidence-based... Continue Reading →
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MN REFLECT Applications Due - Extended deadline: June 6, 2020* The MN REFLECT program brings together faculty from across disciplines, institutions, and experience to participate in a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) faculty learning community. Minnesota State REFLECT scholars will be supported as they develop, implement, and present research results at a conference or... Continue Reading → |
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom June 8 – June 28 Description This spring, 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 reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of this three-week course... Continue Reading →
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June 8 - August 9, 2020 Break from July 4 - July 12 Course Learning Objectives Construct a course schedule, template, or outline that includes at least one learning objective for each module for your course. Create an alignment map with your learning objective(s), assessment tool, learning activities, and materials. Develop one assessment tool that... Continue Reading →
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June 8 – June 28 Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate student achievement... Continue Reading →
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Description Are you interested in learning more about library and OER resources to incorporate into your classes this fall? In this webinar, learn from teaching faculty and librarians about how they have... Continue Reading →
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Description Participants will be guided through interactive demonstrations of five specific humanizing practices they could integrate in to their own online courses. Each demonstration will focus on a specific evidence-based... Continue Reading →
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Description As more of our faculty have to move to hybrid or fully on line modes of teaching this fall, time is an issue if we need to create all... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools June 15 – July 5 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... Continue Reading →
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June 15 – July 5 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... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.06, the June release that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, June 18. RSVP Required Use the RSVP... Continue Reading →
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Description The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides a way for you to assess students with an online exam. Learn how you can utilize question layout, dates and time restrictions,... Continue Reading →
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Description Dive into some of the topics featured in the Minnesota State three week short course “Designing Your Course for Student Learning” beginning on July 6, 2020. Preview some of... Continue Reading →
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Description When colleagues readied themselves for emergency remote teaching this spring, we all received a powerful reminder in the value of social learning. Colleagues from across the system who had... Continue Reading →
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Description Get a jump-start on creating your course Content by making use of some pre-built HTML template files available to you when building your online course materials. This webinar will... Continue Reading →
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Description Tune into this panel discussion to learn how others from across the system have been implementing hyflex or hybrid modes of delivery. The panelists will go over what these... Continue Reading →
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Description Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you'll learn about principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests. RSVP... Continue Reading →
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This event has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled at a future date. We apologize for any inconvenience. Description The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides different methods of feedback... Continue Reading →
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Description There’s no place like home to provide an opportunity to personalize and humanize your digital learning space. But when facilitating sessions outside of a traditional setting, we need to... Continue Reading →
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Description In this webinar, the facilitator will provide participants with examples of how instructors can create videos that support both the cognitive and affective domains of learning. Cognitive domain: The... Continue Reading →
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Background In 2019, professors Robert Jersak (Century College) and Dave Engen (Minnesota State University, Mankato) teamed up with a diverse group of six students to produce The Finding Your Place... Continue Reading → |
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace June 29 – July 19 Description This spring, 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. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for... Continue Reading →
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Description Both Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
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Description Participants will review two common approaches to defining humanized learning, learn how national standards for online course quality incorporate humanizing strategies, and evaluate their current courses and practices to... Continue Reading →
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Description We all give some sort of feedback to students on their assessments, whether it be point values, verbal corrections, or written suggestions. The question is “does the feedback help... Continue Reading →
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Description Explore best practices in securely scheduling, managing and distributing information about virtual sessions in Zoom. Zoom has implemented new security features and in meeting controls to allow hosts to... Continue Reading →
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Description Participants will be guided through interactive demonstrations of five specific humanizing practices they could integrate in to their own online courses. Each demonstration will focus on a specific evidence-based... Continue Reading →
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