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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Week of Events
Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
Description The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support student-to-content interaction in courses. Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed. Monitoring learning outcomes based on student interaction with content. Improving content as needed to facilitate learner outcomes. By the end of this three week course you... Continue Reading →
Monday, February 24, 2020
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February 24, 2020 -Awards and Certificates
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February 24, 2020 -Koffee with Karen
Awards and Certificates
Description Provide your students with Awards or Certificates after they successfully completed activities within your D2L Brightspace course site. Attend this webinar to see a hands on overview of how to use the these tools in your D2L Brightspace course. Connection Details Join this webinar by joining this Zoom meeting room on the day/time of... Continue Reading →
Koffee with Karen
Avenues to OER: A panel discussion There are many avenues to begin your OER journey, hear from two Minnesota State faculty members, Dan Allosso and Katie Nelson, who have experience authoring, redesigning, and collaborating on an open textbook. Karen Pikula, OER Faculty Development Coordinator, will moderate and offer her experiences running the OER Learning Circles.... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
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February 26, 2020 -Accessibility Webinar – Building a Campus-Wide Universal Design framework from the Ground Up
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February 26, 2020 -Quick Eval Tool: Saving Time on Grading
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February 26, 2020 -Zoom Information Session
Accessibility Webinar – Building a Campus-Wide Universal Design framework from the Ground Up
Topic: Building a Campus-Wide Universal Design framework from the Ground Up Recorded Presenter: Sheryl Burgstahler, Director, Accessible Technology Services, University of Washington UD (Universal Design) has emerged as framework for addressing diversity issues in the design of software, instruction, and student services. Engage with speaker and other participants about how promoting the UD paradigm to... Continue Reading →
Quick Eval Tool: Saving Time on Grading
Description The Quick Eval tool in D2L Brightspace provides you a single location to view all unevaluated student submissions (Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes) from all your Brightspace courses. You can sort, filter and search to prioritize which items you want to assess first. Become acquainted with the Quick Eval tool so you can save in your... Continue Reading →
Zoom Information Session
Join Us Please register/RSVP and join us at https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/6181652382 for a guided tour of Zoom from Minnesota State staff. Details about the Zoom Service Who can use Zoom? All active Minnesota State employees (faculty and staff) and students are able to access the service by logging in with their Star ID. How long do we... Continue Reading →
Thursday, February 27, 2020
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Friday, February 28, 2020
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February 28, 2020 -STAR Symposium 2020
STAR Symposium 2020
The award-winning STAR Symposium celebrates excellence in teaching and learning by providing an avenue for individuals to share best practices, ideas, and resources with colleagues. This free virtual one-day conference includes presentations that focus on pedagogical approaches including delivery via face-to-face, blended, flipped and online classrooms. The STAR Symposium focuses on topics related to quality initiatives... Continue Reading →

