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
Integrating Retrieval Practice: Spring 2024
Integrating Retrieval Practice: Spring 2024
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 →
Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry: Spring 2024
Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry: Spring 2024
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 →
Equity 101: Spring 2024
Equity 101: Spring 2024
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 →
Monday, February 12, 2024
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February 12, 2024 -Manage Dates on a Single Screen: Spring 2024
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February 12, 2024 -What’s New in D2L Brightspace: February 2024 (20.24.02)
Manage Dates on a Single Screen: Spring 2024
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... Continue Reading →
What’s New in D2L Brightspace: February 2024 (20.24.02)
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... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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February 13, 2024 -RSI 1: Regular and Substantive Interaction: Communication Strategies and Tools for the Online Classroom
RSI 1: Regular and Substantive Interaction: Communication Strategies and Tools for the Online Classroom
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... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
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February 15, 2024 -Deep Work in a Burnout Society: Session One
Deep Work in a Burnout Society: Session One
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 →
Friday, February 16, 2024
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