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
Monday, October 5, 2020
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October 5, 2020 -Calculating Grades in the Gradebook (Webinar)
Calculating Grades in the Gradebook (Webinar)
Description Trying to figure out the details of gradebook settings and how calculations are performed in a D2L Brightspace course? Want to learn the options for how your students view their grades? In this webinar, we’ll cover: Differences between Adjusted Final Grade and Calculated Final Grade Student Grade View—understanding how faculty determine what students will... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
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October 6, 2020 -Writing Effective Assessment Questions – Option 2 (Webinar)
Writing Effective Assessment Questions – Option 2 (Webinar)
Description Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you’ll learn principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests by exploring the following topics: Why assess? Why tests? Criteria for Test Quality Supporting Test Taking Success Featured Focus: Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
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October 7, 2020 -Pulse App for Student Engagement (Webinar)
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October 7, 2020 -OER FAQ: October
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October 7, 2020 -Equity in Online Environments (Webinar)
Pulse App for Student Engagement (Webinar)
Description Brightspace Pulse is a mobile app that helps students keep track of important dates. It brings announcements, deadlines, and grades from all courses together in one place so students can spend less time organizing and more time learning. Attend this webinar to learn how to effectively create dates within your D2L Brightspace course to... Continue Reading →
OER FAQ: October
Description: In this webinar, host Karen Pikula will answer questions that were commonly asked in OEN Webinars, Koffee with Karen, and the OER Learning Circles. Time will be allotted toward the end to answer any participant questions that were not answered. Submit an OER Question RSVP RSVP below to register and receive the Zoom URL... Continue Reading →
Equity in Online Environments (Webinar)
Equity in Practice Series – Addressing Equity and Building Stronger Relationships with Students Other events in the series: Equity in Practice Series Equity in Online Environments Description In this webinar and guided facilitation, equity issues and trends are shared from various experts around the experiences of college learners in online courses. Strategies are offered about... Continue Reading →
Thursday, October 8, 2020
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October 8, 2020 -Pressbooks: Getting Your Stuff Organized (Webinar)
Pressbooks: Getting Your Stuff Organized (Webinar)
Description Pressbooks is a software that we have available to us in Minnesota that functions as a free publishing tool. It can help you gather your various teaching materials into one place for students, functioning as a text for a course. In this webinar learn how to set up a Pressbooks account and learn the... Continue Reading →
Friday, October 9, 2020
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October 9, 2020 -OER Next Steps: Advocacy and Integration
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October 9, 2020 -Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue 1 (Webinar)
OER Next Steps: Advocacy and Integration
The 4th OER Librarian's Workshop Day has been reconfigured into a virtual format and presents 2 separate entry points for engagement based on background knowledge and experience. Entry Point #2: OER Next Steps: Advocacy & Integration October 9, 2020 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm View Entry Point #1 Description This virtual event is for... Continue Reading →
Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue 1 (Webinar)
Personal Learning as Part of Educational Development: A NED Affiliated Series Other events in the series: Recognizing Political Affiliation as a Social Identity Shifting the Conversation from Debate to Dialogue 2 Description This round table discussion will focus on and discuss the difference between debate and dialogue. Participants will practice using debate and dialogue when... Continue Reading →

