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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2 events,September 28 - October 18 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. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of... Continue Reading →
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Description Provide your students with Awards or Certificates after they successfully completed activities within your D2L Brightspace course. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you the connection details and reminder emails as the event date gets closer, but we suggest you add this... Continue Reading →
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Description Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you’ll learn principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests by exploring the following topics: Why assess? Why tests? Criteria for Test Quality Supporting Test Taking Success Featured Focus: Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Staff from Minnesota State have scheduled drop-in sessions via Zoom to assist any faculty who may need assistance using the available educational technologies to which our community has access (Zoom, Kaltura MediaSpace, D2L Brightspace, Office 365). No RSVP needed. Just join us with your questions! Tuesdays 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm CDT - Ends September 29,... Continue Reading → |
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Description Attend this webinar to see a hands on overview of how to get started using the Gradebook in D2L Brightspace. If you've never used the Gradebook before, or only scratched the surface, this is the fundamental skills session for you. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address... Continue Reading →
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Equity in Practice Series – Addressing Equity and Building Stronger Relationships with Students Other events in the series: Equity in Practice Series Micromessaging – The Role of Faculty in Student... Continue Reading →
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OEN Webinars introduce 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. Registration Deadline is September 29. Questions?... 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 facilitator will provide participants with a simple graphic organizer that supports the evidenced-based practice of chunking ---- helping to reduce the cognitive load on students... Continue Reading →
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Description Trying to figure out the details of gradebook settings and how calculations are performed in a D2L Brightspace course? Want to learn the options for how your students view their grades? In this webinar, we’ll cover: Differences between Adjusted Final Grade and Calculated Final Grade Student Grade View—understanding how faculty determine what students will... Continue Reading →
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Description Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you’ll learn principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests by exploring the following topics: Why assess? Why tests? Criteria for Test Quality Supporting Test Taking Success Featured Focus: Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Description Brightspace Pulse is a mobile app that helps students keep track of important dates. It brings announcements, deadlines, and grades from all courses together in one place so students can spend less time organizing and more time learning. Attend this webinar to learn how to effectively create dates within your D2L Brightspace course to... Continue Reading →
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Description: In this webinar, host Karen Pikula will answer questions that were commonly asked in OEN Webinars, Koffee with Karen, and the OER Learning Circles. Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. Submit an OER Question RSVP RSVP below to register and receive the Zoom URL... Continue Reading →
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Equity in Practice Series – Addressing Equity and Building Stronger Relationships with Students Other events in the series: Equity in Practice Series Equity in Online Environments Description In this webinar... Continue Reading →
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Description Pressbooks is a software that we have available to us in Minnesota that functions as a free publishing tool. It can help you gather your various teaching materials into one place for students, functioning as a text for a course. In this webinar learn how to set up a Pressbooks account and learn the... Continue Reading →
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The 4th OER Librarian's Workshop Day has been reconfigured into a virtual format and presents 2 separate entry points for engagement based on background knowledge and experience. Entry Point #2: OER Next Steps: Advocacy & Integration October 9, 2020 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm View Entry Point #1 Description This virtual event is for... Continue Reading →
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Personal Learning as Part of Educational Development: A NED Affiliated Series Other events in the series: Recognizing Political Affiliation as a Social Identity Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue 2 Description This round table discussion will focus on and discuss the difference between debate and dialogue. Participants will practice using debate and dialogue when... Continue Reading →
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4 events,October 12 - November 1 Description 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... Continue Reading →
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October 12 - November 1 Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you'll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz and test questions.... Continue Reading →
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October 12 - October 23 Description Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or an experienced user of D2L Brightspace, you can use the pre-formatted HTML Templates and Course Template as starting points when designing a new course or re-designing an existing course. The templates provide you with example materials and course layout... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.10, the October release that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, October 15. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you the connection details and reminder emails as the event date... Continue Reading →
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Description Learn how to utilize the bonus feature for quiz questions, individual quizzes, and graded items in your D2L Brightspace gradebook. This webinar will walk through several scenarios and help unravel the mystery of how to effectively administer bonus points in Quizzes and in the course gradebook. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders... Continue Reading →
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Topic: OEN* Allied Institution Membership Minnesota State campuses are members of the Open Education Network as Allied Institutions for the academic year July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021. What does that mean for you? What benefits do Allied Institutions get? Learn more about this membership, its benefits, and how to start using them! Guest:... Continue Reading →
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Description Both Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP) and Trauma Responsive Practices (TRP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. Both CRP and TRP understand that when we are marginalized or overwhelmed, our learning capacity... Continue Reading →
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October 19 - November 8 Description 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 you will be able to identify and apply... Continue Reading →
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October 19 - November 8 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. In this introductory course, we’ll have the opportunity to examine... Continue Reading →
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Description In this webinar, we will explore the different types of assessments. From formative to summative, traditional to performance-based, we will discuss which assessments might work best with different types of learning objectives. 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... Continue Reading →
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Description The upcoming 2020 elections present an important opportunity for civic engagement, learning, and action. We invite all faculty to be a part of community efforts to mobilize, educate, and commit to full participation in the 2020 elections. Join us for this month’s Conversations with Colleagues as we provide an overview of upcoming events as... Continue Reading →
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Description Video as often used as a method of delivering content in order to “get information into students’ heads.” There is no doubt that this form of instruction is critical to supporting student learning, but delivering content is not learning. To see student learning, we need to provide opportunities to “get information out of students’... Continue Reading →
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Equity in Practice Series – Addressing Equity and Building Stronger Relationships with Students Other events in the series: Equity in Practice Series Examining Inequities in Course Syllabus, Grading and Content... Continue Reading →
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Personal Learning as Part of Educational Development: A NED Affiliated Series Other events in the series: Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue 1 Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue 2 Description One reason political conversations have become so difficult in the last couple decades is that political identity, for many, is tied to... Continue Reading →
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October 26 - November 6 Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of... Continue Reading →
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Description As most of us are still teaching at some distance from our students, we have to work even harder to connect with our students. The use of short, focused videos can increase our students' connection to the school, the course, their student peers, and the instructor. See samples of short videos in ways that... Continue Reading →
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Description Faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) are invited to gather in community on a 90-minute Zoom video call, to discuss issues surrounding the upcoming elections. This BIPOC-focused space is in recognition that the way we negotiate the world -- both in and outside the classroom -- is fundamentally different... Continue Reading →
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Description Faculty who identify as white are invited to gather in community on a 90-minute Zoom video call, to discuss issues surrounding the upcoming elections. This affinity session is for white faculty to explore/unpack their potentially racialized thoughts and feelings, as they relate to the theme of politics and elections, in the absence of Black,... Continue Reading →
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What should participants expect from attending this webinar? Brief overview of Bloom's Taxonomy Practice writing learning objectives Feedback or Q and A for their learning objectives 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 we suggest... Continue Reading →
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Part 1: Choosing a platform for your OER October 29, 2020 @ 1:00 - 2:00 pm Part 2 Part 3 Missed a webinar? Check the NED Resource Site for any available recordings or resources. Description Open Education Resources appear in many different formats and on many different platforms such as Pressbooks, Canvas, PDF, SoftChalk, and D2L. What are the... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will explore how instructors can provide effective feedback for students. Is your feedback changing the student in some positive way? If not, learn how to craft feedback than consistently will. We will delve into different types of feedback and what the research shows is the most effective way to make a positive... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will explore various meeting options to secure a Zoom session. We will explore secure distribution methods to restrict access to specific users and how to leverage in meeting controls to avoid unwanted distractions while facilitating Zoom sessions. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided... Continue Reading →
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