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 29 - February 18, 2024 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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January 29 - April 21, 2024 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 is for anyone ready for something other than A-F evaluation methods. If you'd like to explore alternative grading methods or maybe you've already done so, come learn about the possibilities, share your experiences, or ask questions! RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty and staff, Concurrent... 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... Continue Reading →
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This is the pre-webinar associated with the NED short course: Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry (February 12 through March 3rd). This webinar will present an overview of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning process. Participants will discuss how to get started on a SoTL project including the process steps to for creating a meaningful project.... Continue Reading →
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February 5 - February 25, 2024 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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This webinar, scheduled on the last day of the Empathy by Design short course, will recap ideas, tips, recommendations, and favorite practices explored by participants of that short course. Join in to learn or share about how to "humanize" online courses. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty... Continue Reading →
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February 12 - March 3, 2024 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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February 12 - March 3, 2024 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for turning reflection into SoTL inquiry. Module 1 provides an overview of SoTL, including its history and process. Module 2 integrates participants’ reflection on teaching and... Continue Reading →
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February 12 - March 3, 2024 Short Course Description This three-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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Learn how to use Manage Dates in D2L Brightspace for viewing, editing and bulk offsetting course dates to reflect the current semester. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty and staff, Concurrent Enrollment instructors are also welcome to join. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will... Continue Reading →
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This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the February 2024 release (version 20.24.02) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, February 15. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty and staff, Concurrent Enrollment instructors are also welcome to join. After registering, a calendar invite with details... Continue Reading →
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In our face to face classes we have relatively simple ways to regularly communicate with our students - we can greet them by name as they enter class, we can talk with them after class, we can make classroom announcements. All of this is possible in the online classroom as well, but to do this... 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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Take a moment to think back on your own educational experiences. When did the feedback you received from your instructor support your learning? What was it about that feedback that helped you? When did the feedback you received get in the way of your learning? What was it about the feedback that you did not... Continue Reading →
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Facilitators Anthony Collins English instructor at Inver Hills Community College Anthony Collins was a latecomer to OER but has since become a true believer thanks to Karen Pikula! He will present on his favorite parts of OERs: The moment I discovered that I really could develop an OER Hearing “My text reads to me in... 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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An Ever-changing Process Developing High Quality Open Educational Resources Developing high quality Open Educational Resources is an ever-changing process that requires innovation, adaptability, vision, and collaboration. This session will provide a high-level overview of the Educational Development and Technology unit’s evolving process for developing OER for the Open Textbooks Pilot Program, a US Department of... Continue Reading →
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RSI 3: Regular and Substantive Interaction: Discussion Strategies and Tools for the Online Classroom
RSI 3: Regular and Substantive Interaction: Discussion Strategies and Tools for the Online Classroom
“Why do we have to have so many discussions?” If you have ever struggled to explain or justify the need for discussions in your online asynchronous courses, you are not alone. But discussion boards can provide crucial connections, especially learner to learner and instructor to learner. In this webinar you will explore the concept of... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Community of Practice Get connected, explore AI in Spring 2024 What is a Community of Practice? A community of practice is a group of people with a shared passion or interest. The group interacts regularly to share, support, and learn together. The Teaching with AI Community of Practice will explore equitable teaching methods and AI. What to expect? You can expect to participate in collective... Continue Reading →
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February 2024 Topic: Finding your partners for change within your institution The work of faculty and staff can feel either stacked with required meetings or isolated with solitary tasks. Some of the initiatives we tackle (e.g. equity) represent undoing generations of patterns and rewiring complex, systemic structures. It’s important and often exhausting work! Connections with others... Continue Reading →
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OE Week: MyOpenMath Textbook Companion Gus Vettleson Northwest Technical College Math faculty Discover a versatile textbook companion that goes beyond math! This instructor-guided platform allows you to house and grade course materials seamlessly. Explore shareable and trackable courses, with randomization options for limitless question variations. With logic-based design, multiple question formats, LMS compatibility, and easy... Continue Reading →
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Lowering the activation energy with OpenStax D2L Course Shells As part of an institutional partnership with OpenStax, instructional designers at Minnesota State University, Mankato created D2L course shells for all existing OpenStax courses after seeing a gap in availability. These courses are recommended as easy steps into OER adoption and include instructor materials such as... 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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Making English Classes Affordable using Open and Library Resources Kelly Donahue Century College English faculty Randi Madisen Century College Library faculty Find out how Century College English and library faculty collaborate to provide electronic versions of often used novels and other texts, increasing student equity and access, while improving course accessibility and quality. Participants will... Continue Reading →
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Navigating Classroom Dynamics: An Anti-Racist and Trauma-Informed Approach Join the three-part webinar series designed to revolutionize classroom discussions by introducing an anti-racist and trauma-informed approach to conflicts. We recognize that students bring their entire selves to class, encompassing bodies, emotions, and neuro-systems, often carrying traumas resulting from microaggressions, racism, religious differences, and various conflicts. Instructors... Continue Reading →
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Towards providing a no-cost textbook pathway The Minnesota State Z-Degree Initiative This webinar will provide an overview of the Z-Degree initiative, feature presentations on the Z-degree programs at Century College and Minnesota State Community and Technical College, and include the announcement of the recipients for the FY24 Z-Degree funding round. RSVP Required Use the RSVP... Continue Reading →
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