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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Description The Open Pedagogy Panel and Workshop is a follow-up to December's OER Community Conversation (view the recording in the OER Community Site). During this panel, we will hear from experts who have implemented Open Pedagogy practices in their own courses and we will discuss both the benefits and challenges of this practices and how... Continue Reading →
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1 event,January 10 - 30, 2022 Originally scheduled for November 22 - December 12, 2021. Description This course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and... Continue Reading →
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Description Learn how to create rubrics in D2L Brightspace to provide students with the components on which they will be evaluated prior to them submitting their work. An established rubric with initial standardized feedback helps to provide objective and consistent assessment to students. It saves you time evaluating and grading, while also providing the option... Continue Reading →
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Topic: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Student-centered Course Design Description Instructional Designers from Minnesota State University Moorhead will share how they co-facilitate an instructional cohort focused on student-centered practices. Presenters and participants will share examples of how they use an asset-based lens, diversify the curriculum, and create an inclusive classroom environment throughout the course design... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the January 2022 release (version 20.22.01) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, January 20. 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... Continue Reading →
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Description Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Discover various ways to align grading rubrics (or rubrics for outcome evaluation) with learning activities to keep track of student achievement. Learn the ins and outs of utilizing rubrics as both an... Continue Reading →
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1 event,OER Learning Circles Spring 2022 February 21 - May 1, 2022 Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing, to permit their free reuse, continuous improvement, and re-purposing by others for educational purposes (UNESCO). OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming... Continue Reading → |
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2 events,January 24 - February 13, 2022 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →
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Description Explore the versatility of the Assignments (formerly called Dropbox) tool in D2L Brightspace. We’ll walk through the various types of assignments that can be set up and managed, and show how student submissions can be evaluated and feedback provided to students. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with... Continue Reading →
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Description Design accessibility, access, and equity in your courses – Universal Design for Learning is a framework that can help us address every students’ unique learning needs! This webinar is an overview of the Universal Design for Learning guidelines plus some simple ways to apply UDL in your online teaching and learning experiences. Participants will... Continue Reading →
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Description To better grasp what disability justice is, we’ll cover critical moments in disability history that everyone should know. We’ll examine how the past persists in current policies and attitudes today, but also note the wins in disability rights achieved thus far. We’ll also define ableism and provide examples of it. Lastly, we’ll share ways... Continue Reading →
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Description Leverage the discussion tool to its greatest potential to enable students to engage in meaningful conversations that can take place over a period of time, allowing for reflection and thoughtful interaction. Review the new evaluation experience when assessing student work in Discussions! RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a... Continue Reading →
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Open Education Network (OEN) Webinars introduce Minnesota State faculty and staff to open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota. After the OEN Webinar, attendance will be taken. Attendees will receive a link to review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library... Continue Reading → |
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2 events,January 31 - April 24, 2022 Faculty Learning Community 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 course, we’ll have the... Continue Reading →
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January 31 - February 20, 2022 Short Course (This course was previously titled Improving Online Assessments) 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... Continue Reading →
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Description In this webinar, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more! Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. View all OER Events. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool... Continue Reading →
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Faculty Development’s Role in Supporting Equity and Inclusion How can faculty developers focus on equity and inclusion and support this work on their campus? Learn more about the facilitation of equity & inclusion faculty Communities of Practice, partnering with campus Equity by Design teams, and additional opportunities and resources. Target Audience This series is specifically... Continue Reading →
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