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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3 events,Minnesota State REFLECT Applications Due April 25, 2022. Minnesota State is seeking members for a two-year cohort within the Minnesota State REFLECT project. The project 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... Continue Reading →
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Since 2018, Minnesota State faculty have been participating in the OER Learning Circles program, where they collaborate with colleagues from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around OER and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate course material costs for students. OER are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools,... Continue Reading →
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Description Ensuring your virtual meetings are as accessible as possible requires planning, flexibility, and creativity. Learn simple yet high-impact ways to optimize your virtual meetings to increase accessibility and improve audience engagement. The tips offered in this webinar apply to all types of remote meetings—from seminars, conferences, lectures, and classes, to office hours and one-on-one... Continue Reading →
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Description This workshop aims to teach the audience about the richness and variety in the lived disability experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities (and of their families). We will share their advice on how to be better allies and how to advocate for yourself as well through self-advocacy tools. We will also show what... Continue Reading →
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Description This practical workshop will introduce innovative approaches and tools, such as person-centered thinking and human-centered design, that can be used to improve access and meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities and others historically left out of systems design. Examples of inclusive design to be shared include an inclusive syllabus template and the story of... Continue Reading →
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This webinar will introduce how to apply antiracist values and praxis into classroom teaching, with a specific focus on community building. 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 calendar. Campuses may want to know if... Continue Reading →
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2 events,Prepare for the fall semester and join a Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Community! It's a chance to engage with colleagues in your field of study, and to explore evidence-based strategies to reduce equity gaps. Summer 2022 Dates and Disciplines Summer 2022 Faculty Learning Communities will occur May 31 - August 21, 2022. Register by May 13,... Continue Reading →
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Description Instructor-to-student interaction is crucial for student success in an online environment. Making full use of the tools embedded within the D2L Brightspace course shell is a simple way to improve instructor communication. This webinar will focus on one tool--Announcements--and review features that may increase communication levels between instructors and students. RSVP Required Use the... Continue Reading →
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Description Instructor-to-student interaction in an online class can set the tone for student success. In this webinar, we will delve into the Awards tool in D2L Brightspace and review steps needed to set up simple awards for learners. We will look at creating awards that are sent automatically to students using pre-determined criteria and others... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the May 2022 release (version 20.22.05) that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, May 19. 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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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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Pursuing Equity 2030 Teach Together Minnesota! is a free, virtual conference bringing together educators from across Minnesota to have discussions with colleagues in their field of study grounded in cultural fluency and culturally... Continue Reading →
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Spend some time creating aligned module objectives for your class! In this 1 hour webinar, we will go through a brief overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, practice writing learning objectives and then have an open forum to get feedback on your newly written objectives. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a... Continue Reading →
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2 events,May 23 - June 12, 2022 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →
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May 23 - June 12, 2022 Short Course 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. Course Learning Objectives After completing this course, you will be able... Continue Reading →
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Spend some time creating aligned module objectives for your class! In this 1 hour webinar, we will go through a brief overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, practice writing learning objectives and then have an open forum to get feedback on your newly written objectives. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a... Continue Reading →
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4 events,May 31 - June 19, 2022 Short Course Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making 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,... Continue Reading →
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May 31 - June 19, 2022 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve through deliberate recall of skills and knowledge, spaced out over time, and reviewed along with other concepts. More than 100 years of educational research in... Continue Reading →
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May 31 - August 21, 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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This webinar will focus on ways in which Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can be applied as an equity framework to support the use of digital technology for teaching and learning. We will look at the ways in UDL can go wrong if not applied with an intentional equity lens and examples of best practice... Continue Reading →
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In a hybrid class it takes deliberate effort to keep your online students feeling connected and engaged with your face-to-face class. Join this webinar to learn what to expect when... Continue Reading →
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