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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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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2 events,November 2 - November 22 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... Continue Reading →
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November 2 - November 22 Description By the end of this three week short course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Content, HTML Editor, and Release Conditions) to improve the student-to-content interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the Content tool, tips... Continue Reading →
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November 3, 2020 Pre-conference sessions: 7:00 am - 8:30 am Summit: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Minnesota’s annual CTE Works! Summit connects educators, advisors and administrators from high schools and colleges with workforce developers, business and industry partners, and our communities. This energizing professional development event, jointly sponsored by Minnesota State and MDE, features national leaders... Continue Reading → |
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Equity and Inclusion Coordinators Monthly Check-In In collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and implementing a plan for comprehensive set of development opportunities to help faculty members build knowledge, skills, and abilities related... Continue Reading →
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Description ALL faculty are invited to gather in community on a 90-minute Zoom video call, to discuss issues surrounding the election results. Particularly in the current moment, topics such as policing, the pandemic and government’s response to it, barriers to voting, and others are highly racialized and politicized. What does this mean in terms of... 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 Stay tuned for an optional alternative date OR a potential asynchronous online course with a technical assistance discussion. We apologize for the inconvenience. Ensuring Equity in Problem-based Learning Description This session is designed... Continue Reading →
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Part 2: Who do you need to know as part of the OER process? November 5, 2020 @ 1:00 - 2:00 pm Part 1 Part 3 Missed a webinar? Check the NED Resource Site for any available recordings or resources. Description Everything in higher education happens through a process of many people’s actions, including publishing... Continue Reading →
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Description In this webinar, we will explore ways to set the tone of a digital meeting with welcome options, sample preparation and support materials, and accessibility features. We will explore some general housekeeping examples with guidelines for professional Netiquette in virtual environments. Finally we will explore some of the interactive tools that can be used... Continue Reading →
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November 9 - November 22 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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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 pandemic and the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. CRP advocates that education utilize student’s lived experience; OEP advocates that education empower students as partners in... 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 Recognizing Political Affiliation as a Social Identity 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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Part 3: What do you need to fill out as part of the OER process? (And how?) November 12, 2020 @ 1:00 - 2:00 pm Part 1 Part 2 Missed... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.11, the November release, that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, November 19. RSVP Required Use the RSVP... 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... Continue Reading → |
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Description Teaching Experiences Listening Session Spring and Fall 2020 have presented many challenges to teaching and learning across Minnesota State campuses for instructors and students. There have also been many... 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 Supporting Students in Nontraditional Careers Description In this... Continue Reading →
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Artificial Intelligence Supported Discussions Chancellor Maholtra and Senior Vice Chancellor Anderson have expressed interest in exploring how artificial intelligence may support teaching and student learning in higher education. With their... 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... Continue Reading →
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Artificial Intelligence Supported Discussions Chancellor Maholtra and Senior Vice Chancellor Anderson have expressed interest in exploring how artificial intelligence may support teaching and student learning in higher education. With their... Continue Reading →
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November 30 - December 20 Description This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master. Here is what participants will do in this course: Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course module... Continue Reading →
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In collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and... Continue Reading →
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Topic: Using OER in your HyFlex Courses HyFlex is a course design model that presents the components of hybrid learning in a flexible course structure that gives students the option... Continue Reading →
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