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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January 30 - April 23, 2023 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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Get a jump-start on creating your course Content by making use of some pre-built HTML template files available to you when building your online course materials. This webinar will walk... Continue Reading →
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Faculty Developer's Series Creating Equity Through Connection: Connecting with your institution February 1 @ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Virtual Register for the other events in the series: October... Continue Reading →
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The Start, End, and Due dates from most tools in D2L Brightspace can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each individual... 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! Submit... Continue Reading →
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Discuss with librarian colleagues how to support instructional design principles and diversity through open and affordable resources. We will start with a brief introduction to the topic by Carrie Miller, an instructional designer, then we will share concerns and best practices. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details... Continue Reading →
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This webinar explores how to maximize the D2L Announcement tool for increased instructor-to-student interaction. Scheduling and personalizing announcements, as well as embedding images and linking course content within the message will be covered. Participants can expect to quickly incorporate these tips into their current communication toolbox and reflect on how announcements may be used in... Continue Reading →
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February 6 - February 26, 2023 Short Course Course Learning Objectives Through engaging in the work of the training, faculty will be able to: Define antiracist pedagogy as an individual and community process, and why it is important Learn strategies for sustained critical self-reflection as a foundation for antiracism work Begin applying antiracist pedagogy to... Continue Reading →
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The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides a way for you to assess students with an online exam. Learn how you can utilize question layout, dates and time restrictions, and other quizzing features to align with your online exam. Whether you’re new to online quizzing or have experience with it, come explore best practices to... Continue Reading →
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The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) guides us as instructors to engage in continuous review, revision, and renewal of our teaching practices to support student learning. With SoTL, we ask questions like "What will happen after I implement this revision policy?"; "Does this assessment format work better than others?", and "How much more or... Continue Reading →
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The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides different methods of feedback when assessing students for an online exam. You can choose how to score quiz questions: automatically, manually, and/or with blind marking. Come learn about best practices to utilize the available data analysis within the Quizzes tool and evaluate how well students performed on a... Continue Reading →
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What is humanizing? How can we infuse our courses with empathy through humanizing strategies? During this webinar, we'll have an opportunity to explore practical ideas for humanizing your course, with the goal of identifying at least one humanizing practice to explore further and potentially adopt in ways that fit your practice, disciplines, and courses. This... Continue Reading →
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February 13 - March 5, 2023 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 instructor-to-student interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the... Continue Reading →
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February 13 – March 5, 2023 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of equity and ethics. In doing so, participants will review what counts as valid and reliable data and two major approaches to make sense of different... Continue Reading →
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This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the February 2023 release (version 20.23.02) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, February 16. 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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What in the world is an Intelligent Agent? The Intelligent Agents tool in D2L Brightspace sends emails to students based on preset conditions. Faculty can create and schedule Intelligent Agents using site login, course login, or release conditions. Using Intelligent Agents in D2L Brightspace can help make learners more accountable and engage them when they... Continue Reading →
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First in a Three-Part Series Connecting the Classroom to Minnesota State Guided Learning Pathways February 15 @ 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. - Virtual Register for the other events in the... Continue Reading →
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What's the difference between empathy and compassion? How can we balance compassion and academic rigor? During this webinar, we'll have an opportunity to explore ideas discuss how to balance flexible,... Continue Reading →
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February 21 - April 2, 2023 Short Course Description This six week short 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 how those affect... Continue Reading →
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Learn core principles for creating high-impact and effective accessible media, along with best practices for planning, scripting, filming, and sharing your productions. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After... Continue Reading →
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Topic: Accessible and Inclusive Event Planning Want to transform your meetings and events? Fully inclusive meetings and events consider all people - Â placing access and inclusion on the forefront of... Continue Reading →
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There are multiple options for collecting student work for assessment. The Assignments tool in D2L Brightspace offers a single location for different types of assessment, including traditional file submissions, media... Continue Reading →
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The Assignments tool in D2L Brightspace provides different methods of feedback, including annotating on a file and scoring with a rubric. Learn about using the Assignments tool to capture different... Continue Reading →
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We all keep hearing about Universal Design for Learning, but what is it? If you try to do some research on it, you will find textbooks written about it. We... Continue Reading →
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Share the Flyer Topic: OER and Equity Host: Ed Minnema, Equity Coach at the Minnesota State system office Join this discussion on equity, how it is an ongoing process, never... Continue Reading →
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Learn how to create and make the most of the Rubrics tool in D2L Brightspace to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Rubrics... Continue Reading →
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Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. Rubrics can be utilized as both a valuable... Continue Reading →
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Pre-recorded lectures can be extremely helpful for student learning, but not all lectures are equally effective. In this webinar, we will explore what research says does and does not work... Continue Reading →
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Second in a Three-Part Series Connecting the Classroom to Minnesota State Guided Learning Pathways March 3, 2023 @ 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. - Virtual Register for the other events in... Continue Reading →
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