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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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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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... Continue Reading →
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Join an informative webinar about using the D2L Awards tool as one form of instructor-to-student interaction. Badges not only can be designed to reward excellent outcomes on assignments but also... Continue Reading →
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This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the March 2023 release (version 20.23.03) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, March 16. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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The Quick Eval tool provides a single location to view all unevaluated student submissions (Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes) from all Brightspace courses. You can sort, filter and search to prioritize which... Continue Reading →
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March 20 - April 9, 2023 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 of... Continue Reading →
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March 20 - April 9, 2023 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. You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time 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... Continue Reading →
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Brightspace is getting a refresh of its Content experience. D2L suggests they have focused on a clean visual presentation of content for educators and learners. D2L has developed an experience... Continue Reading →
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Brightspace is getting a refresh of its Content experience. D2L suggests they have focused on a clean visual presentation of content for educators and learners. D2L has developed an experience... Continue Reading →
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Universal Design for Learning can be very overwhelming when looking at the big picture. Our goal is to give faculty some ideas on items that can be easily integrated into... Continue Reading →
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Nominations for the 2024 Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence are due November 1, 2023 at 5:00 pm. At this information session, learn about the nomination guidelines for the 2024 Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence, review the rubric, and ask questions regarding nomination content or submission process. Nominees, local campus nominating committee members, and staff... Continue Reading →
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Minnesota State is filled with incredible faculty who are doing amazing work focused on their teaching craft. The purpose of the Network for Educational Development (NED) Excellence in Teaching Series is to continue honoring and showcasing the experience and expertise of the Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence Educators of the Year through the opportunity... Continue Reading →
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ChatGPT and other artificial Intelligence (AI) already are having an impact on teaching and learning. Maybe you have already experimented with their capabilities or are ignoring it with hopes that it will be short term and fade away (it won’t!). Regardless of your familiarity or discomfort, instructors need to consider how to address AI in... Continue Reading →
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Introduction to Disability Justice March 27 - April 16, 2023 Short Course Description In this 3-week introduction to disability justice course, you will learn about disability justice, practice using inclusive language, and apply strategies to interrupt ableism. You can expect to create documents and/or find ways to apply your learning right away, including options like:... 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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Learn how to be intentional in choosing classroom technologies based on a humanizing perspective. We will explore how technologies can be used to humanize a course and which technologies can... Continue Reading →
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Minnesota State is filled with incredible faculty who are doing amazing work focused on their teaching craft. The purpose of the Network for Educational Development (NED) Excellence in Teaching Series... Continue Reading →
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2023-2025 Cohort The Minnesota State REFLECT program brings together faculty from across disciplines, institutions, and experience to participate in a 2-year Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) faculty learning community. Minnesota State REFLECT scholars will be supported as they develop, implement, and present research results at a conference or in a journal. SoTL studies will... Continue Reading →
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Structured planning and design of assessments coupled with effective question writing strategies can help improve the reliability and validity of assessments. This webinar we will introduce strategies for assessment planning... Continue Reading →
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Register for all: March 31Â Â |Â Â April 6Â Â |Â Â April 11Â Â |Â Â April 24Â Â |Â Â April 27 Since 2018, Minnesota State faculty have been participating in the OER Learning Circles... Continue Reading →
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