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 (Fall 2024)
Empathy by Design (Fall 2024)
September 16 - October 6, 2024 Short 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 course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there... Continue Reading →
Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry (Fall 2024)
Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry (Fall 2024)
September 16 - October 6, 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 →
Monday, September 16, 2024
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September 16, 2024 -What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2024
What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2024
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the September 2024 release (version 20.24.09) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, September 19. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
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September 17, 2024 -Strengths-Based Advising: Fall 2024
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September 17, 2024 -Democracy in the Classroom Without Fear
Strengths-Based Advising: Fall 2024
A subtle but pernicious challenge to students from marginalized populations navigating higher education is the presence of deficit thinking in implicit and explicit forms. Advising, as a primary and ongoing site of personal and academic discovery for students, can be one location where deficit framing has the greatest impact. As advisors, the way we speak about,... Continue Reading →
Democracy in the Classroom Without Fear
Hosted by Inver Hills Community College Tuesday, September 17, 1-2pm, Zoom Webinar Link, Passcode: 993698 Panelists Rob Barron, Executive Director, Seed Coalition Ryan Drysdale, Director of Impact and State Networks, ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Erica Wood, Geology faculty, Inver Hills Community College Amy Zsohar, Communications faculty, Inver Hills Community College Description You are invited... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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September 18, 2024 -PressbookEDU Office Hour
PressbookEDU Office Hour
Pressbooks is an open-source book publishing tool that allows you to publish content to the web and in a variety of export formats from a single source. Pressbooks is used widely in OER programs for remixing, creating, and adopting open content, but it can also be used to make other materials like syllabi, dissertations or... Continue Reading →
Thursday, September 19, 2024
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Friday, September 20, 2024
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