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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St. Cloud State University Background Faculty at St. Cloud State University merged modern engineering with 3D printing. Through the use of specialized software and 3D printers, graphic design students are learning to rapid prototype package designs and custom graphics in 3D, preparing them for opportunities in a wide variety of more advanced interdisciplinary projects both... 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 implementing a plan for comprehensive set of development opportunities to help faculty members build knowledge, skills, and abilities related to equity and inclusion efforts within... Continue Reading →
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Spring 2021 Book Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. New this year - the first 150 participants to register for this series will receive a free copy of this eBook. Directions to claim your eBook will be provided in the... Continue Reading →
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St. Cloud State University and North Hennepin Community College Background Digital badges can be helpful for communicating skills and competencies that a person successfully acquires or demonstrates. St. Cloud State University partnered with North Hennepin Community College to explore ways that digital badges can complement existing credentials, and help bridge the communication gap between the skills students have... Continue Reading →
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March 8 - March 20, 2021 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... Continue Reading →
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March 8 - March 28, 2021 Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Classlist, Email, Intelligent Agents, personalized Announcements, and private Discussions) to improve instructor-to-student interactions.  You will be provided with efficient ways to email students, tips and tricks to personalize communication for students,... Continue Reading →
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Description Boost motivation and academic honesty in your online courses. In this one-hour webinar you will learn three factors that contribute to academic motivation and immediately applicable strategies to implement these factors in your own online courses. Outcomes At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to… List at least two factors that... Continue Reading →
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Minnesota State University Moorhead Background Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Growth, Resilience, Initiative, and Transformation (GRIT) Program is designed to retain and support students that do not meet automatic admission criteria and are admitted as a conditional student. GRIT creates an opportunity for students to get connected with a success coach, learn the best success strategies... Continue Reading →
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In January 2020, Chancellor Malhotra appointed four Equity 2030 Chancellor’s Fellows from among Minnesota State faculty across the state to generate an essential knowledge base to lay the philosophical and practical groundwork for Equity 2030. Drs. Ruthann Crapo Kim and Ajaykumar Panicker were selected as the Chancellor’s Fellows for Academic Equity. They were tasked with... Continue Reading →
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Description Ever wonder how you can quickly get attendance reports from previous Zoom sessions? Wouldn’t it be nice to recall the details of who responded a certain way to the class poll that you used in Zoom. With the detailed meeting and usage reports you can analyze session data to find out all of these... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.21.03, the March release, that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, March 18. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your... Continue Reading →
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Northwest Technical College Background The MN REFLECT Program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College has gained momentum, inspiring faculty research in teaching & learning across colleges in Minnesota State. Although the program... Continue Reading →
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Description Boost motivation and academic honesty in your online courses. In this one-hour webinar you will learn three factors that contribute to academic motivation and some immediately applicable strategies to... Continue Reading →
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Southwest Minnesota State University Background At Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU), students travel to farms many miles from the university to gain valuable farm experience. Unfortunately, weather hazards or other challenges... Continue Reading →
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Topic Strategies for Developing Communities of Practice This session is about developing an Equity and Inclusion Community of Practice. Ronald Ferguson, with colleagues at Ridgewater, have developed a faculty-driven community... Continue Reading →
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Description In this webinar, participants will discuss how caring for students of color and low-income students becomes a political act because it pushes back against the racialized disparities in academic... Continue Reading →
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St. Cloud State University Background Peer Wellness Coaching is a free service that offers all students at St. Cloud State University an opportunity to discuss their personal goals in a... Continue Reading →
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St. Cloud State University Background St. Cloud State University’s use of lightboard technology will allow instructors to produce high-quality online lecture videos that reflect best practices and open up more... Continue Reading →
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Southwest Minnesota State University Background The English faculty at Southwest Minnesota State University envisioned a website of free online resources that could replace the need for textbooks in their English... Continue Reading →
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2 events,March 22 - April 11, 2021 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... 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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In case you were not yet aware, Minnesota State recently launched a three-year research project evaluating student performance while using Packback The purpose of this study is to assess the... Continue Reading →
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Bemidji State University Background Northwoods Queer Outreach (NQO) is an initiative that aims to increase queer and transgender representation, support and acceptance across the Bemidji State University campus and within... 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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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 identify... Continue Reading →
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6 events,March 29 - April 18, 2021 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... Continue Reading →
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Dakota County Technical College & Inver Hills Community College Background FlexPace is a mastery-based online learning program founded at Riverland Community College in 2016. Dakota County Technical College and Inver Hills Community College adapted its own FlexPace program... 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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Lake Superior College Background A Mindful Path Towards Becoming ‘Our Community's College’ at Lake Superior College is a program focused on bringing equity to the campus, using mindfulness as a tool to create a community of people who are present for each other, welcoming to all, and are aware of barriers and opportunities within our college and community.... Continue Reading →
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Minneapolis College Background Minneapolis College has created a year-long cohort training focused on Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). The training supports cohorts of faculty working together to shift their teaching practices so they more fully embody the tenets and practices of CRP. In addition to being grounded in CRP, the training also incorporates pedagogies of poverty... Continue Reading →
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Central Lakes College Background The Students Takeover OER initiative trains students to assist faculty with OER authoring, resource discovery, and course redesign with an accessibility focus. Many faculty in have difficulty finding time to undertake OER work. Trained student OER specialists will work diligently under faculty tutelage, helping to author OER materials that can be... Continue Reading →
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Saint Paul College Background Co-Curricular assessment has become increasingly important as colleges evaluate how they provide a holistic educational experience to students. Saint Paul College is establishing best practices to help better student affairs staff better examine how they teach students, what they are teaching, and assess the extent of what students are learning outside... Continue Reading →
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Description Where do you start when thinking about designing your course for student learning? By taking a high-level review of what is in your course, you can set a plan to improve the course in no time! Okay, it will take time, but after this session you will know how to get started! In this... Continue Reading →
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Century College Background Minnesota has a proud tradition of welcoming immigrants and refugees, many of whom do not speak English fluently. At Century College the translating and interpreting (TRIN) faculty are helping prepare their colleagues to provide better guidance to students who will provide services in the future to culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The... Continue Reading →
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Saint Paul College Background Fundamentals of Writing I is a required course for many students at St. Paul College, including students entering the trades who take it as a sole writing course. For students who struggle with writing, the course can be a particularly challenging. To assist all students, Fundamentals of Writing I is gamified as a means to... Continue Reading →
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Central Lakes College Background Mental health therapy is traditionally provided through in-office visits, creating barriers for access such as social stigma attached to in-person visits, long wait lists to schedule appointments, and lack of facilities in rural areas. Central Lakes College is rolling out its Learn to Live© program, providing student online access to free... 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 support, Minnesota State is encouraging faculty members to participate in a research study in collaboration with Packback, an AI-supported online discussion platform as a supplement... Continue Reading →
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Minnesota State University, Mankato Background Previously the I’m First project, Maverick’s First is the first program of its kind at MSU Mankato that means to engage the 43% of students who are first generation college students. An interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff are organized around the effort, delivering a series of events, communications, and... Continue Reading →
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Inver Hills Community College Background Inver Hills Community College faculty, in partnership with faculty from California State University, the University of Hawaii, and Grossmont College, collaboratively authored an open textbook to support student learning in the field of biological anthropology. This textbook is a first-of-its-kind creation for the discipline. A lab and activities book to... Continue Reading →
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Saint Paul College Background St. Paul College is developing open source supplementary materials for use in an introductory Environmental Science course, and share with all Minnesota State faculty through Opendora. This project is developing three types of resources for faculty use: online learning activities, study guides, and a test bank. Presenter: Joanna Cregan, Saint Paul... Continue Reading →
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