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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August 28 - September 17, 2023 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... Continue Reading →
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September 6 - November 16, 2023 Dates vary by discipline Equity and Inclusion Faculty Learning Communities REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 1, 2023 Fall 2023 Disciplines: Agriculture and Food & Human and Personal Services Share the flyer Description The Minnesota State Educational Development and Technology unit supports faculty within disciplines to come together to explore culturally... Continue Reading → |
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September 5 - 24, 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 student-to-content interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the Content... Continue Reading →
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Are you interested in using D2L Brightspace for quizzes, but you're not sure how to get started? This is the webinar for you! In this session, we'll talk about how quizzes can be adapted for many assessment purposes. Topics will include: Using item pools Setting up specialized testing experiences Invigilation tools Tips and tricks for... 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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The Creative Commons (CC) Certificate is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. The course is composed of readings, quizzes, discussions and practical exercises to develop learners’ open skills. Minnesota State will support up to ten (10) seats for the CC Certificate for Librarians or the CC Certificate for Educators... Continue Reading →
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This webinar will examine the difference between institutional equity and academic equity. Then, it will provide guidance on how faculty can foster more academic equity by developing curricular and pedagogical interventions that differentiate and diversify what they teach and how they teach. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with... Continue Reading →
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September 11 - October 22, 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 our values... Continue Reading →
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September 11 - October 1, 2023 Short Course Description This course is comprised of a series of modules designed to prepare deans to better support and encourage the academic equity work of faculty. The content will also prepare participants to employ inclusive leadership practices that can help advance and sustain the equity work of faculty... Continue Reading →
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Generative AI Workshop Series Does the rapid emergence of generative AI applications like ChatGPT have you rethinking your course assignments? Have you moved from, “What’s ChatGPT?” to “How do I encourage authentic writing when all of my students are using ChatGPT?” Join us this fall for a series of conversations about the impact of generative... Continue Reading →
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Leverage the discussion tool in D2L Brightspace 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... 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. Attendees will receive a link to review an open textbook located in the Open Textbook Library (open.umn.edu) and receive a $200 stipend once the review... Continue Reading → |
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The Media Library tool offers a simplified method for creating and storing video and audio recordings directly in your D2L course. Media Library includes a Record Video feature, and an Add Video Note feature, all of which can be used by both students and instructors. This webinar will present some practical uses of these tools,... Continue Reading →
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September 18 - October 8, 2023 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →
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This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the September 2023 release (version 20.23.09) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, September 21. 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 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 a question here beforehand. Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below... Continue Reading →
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September 25 - October 15, 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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September 25 - October 15, 2023 Short Course Description This asynchronous 3-week course is offered for the purpose of providing both academic and faculty advisors with the information and resources necessary to increase equity and inclusion in their work. Participants will engage in a series of activities including, but not limited to discussion, case study... Continue Reading →
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Real Talk, Real Connection. Join us in conversation with educational development colleagues from across Minnesota State as we kick off this year's Conversations with Colleagues series. This year we will be engaging in the theme of "Guides on the Educational Journey." Our first gathering will set the stage by thinking about relationship building as a... Continue Reading →
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Association of College and Research Libraries OER and Affordability Off-Roadshow September 27 and 29, 2023 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MnPALS Librarians are invited to join the ACRL’s virtual two-part OER and Affordability Off-RoadShow on September 27 and 29 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Targeted specifically for Minnesota, learn the basics of OER and... Continue Reading →
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There are multiple options for collecting student work for assessment. The Assignments tool in Brightspace offers a single location for different types of assessment, including traditional file submissions, media submissions, and hands-on, face-to-face assessment. Learn how to use the Assignments tool in online, hybrid, or face-to-face classes. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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At its core, ensuring accessibility in course content is a matter of choice. Decisions on how to create, use, procure, and share multimedia directly impact student access and, ultimately, student success. This webinar explores how instructors and course designers can mitigate access barriers through informed decision-making and inclusive planning. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool... Continue Reading →
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Generative AI Workshop Series Does the rapid emergence of generative AI applications like ChatGPT have you rethinking your course assignments? Have you moved from, “What’s ChatGPT?” to “How do I encourage authentic writing when all of my students are using ChatGPT?” Join us this fall for a series of conversations about the impact of generative... Continue Reading →
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Association of College and Research Libraries OER and Affordability Off-Roadshow September 27 and 29, 2023 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MnPALS Librarians are invited to join the ACRL’s virtual two-part OER and Affordability Off-RoadShow on September 27 and 29 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Targeted specifically for Minnesota, learn the basics of OER and... Continue Reading →
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Re-purpose and share course material from semester to semester and campus to campus by using Import/ Export/ Copy Course Components in D2L. After importing old material, save time by using the Manage Dates tool to view and revise all the dates at once with filtering, sorting, and searching options. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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