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
Empathy by Design: Summer 2023
Empathy by Design: Summer 2023
July 10 - July 30, 2023 Short Course (This short course was previously titled Humanizing Your Online Course) Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and... Continue Reading →
Equity 101: Summer 2023
Equity 101: Summer 2023
July 10 - July 31, 2023 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... Continue Reading →
Manage Course Dates to Improve Student Engagement: Summer 2023
Manage Course Dates to Improve Student Engagement: Summer 2023
July 10 - July 30, 2023 Short Course Description By the end of this three-week course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including the Import/Export/Copy Components, Manage Dates, and Brightspace Pulse) to effectively improve course facilitation for student motivation. You will be provided with efficient ways to offset dates from previously offered... Continue Reading →
Monday, July 10, 2023
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July 10, 2023 -The Professionalism Pact
The Professionalism Pact
NED Webinar As we have emerged from the most acute phase of the pandemic, we are seeing an even greater need to help students shore up their professional skills: meeting deadlines communicating effectively showing respect taking personal responsibility working in teams Now, we have AI like ChatGPT to consider, and the question is: how do... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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July 11, 2023 -Creating Video Quizzes
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July 11, 2023 -Getting Started with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Creating Video Quizzes
NED Webinar Video Quizzes can provide engaging learning opportunities and assessments all-in-one, with multiple choice, true/false, or written response questions built directly into your MediaSpace videos. This webinar will help you strategize when & why to use video quizzes, how to build the questions and attach them to the D2L gradebook, and how to view... Continue Reading →
Getting Started with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
NED Webinar The short course, Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry (July 17-August 6), is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). During this post-webinar we discuss an overview of Reflective practices that may be used in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects. A background overview of SoTL is presented, reviewing basic steps... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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Thursday, July 13, 2023
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Friday, July 14, 2023
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