Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Short Course

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Short Course. July 25 – August 14 Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this introductory course, we’ll have the opportunity to examine how […]

Accessible Digital Media: Short Course

Accessible Digital Media short course. July 25 – August 14 Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards that help ensure equitable […]

Empathy by Design: Short Course

Empathy by Design: Short Course July 25 – August 14 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 are no scheduled […]

Applying Content Page Templates in D2L Brightspace 2

July 28, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Applying Content Page Templates in D2L Brightspace 2. Looking for that perfect image to insert into your PowerPoint slide? Searching for a soundtrack for your course welcoming video? If you mix Creative Commons licensed work into your own creations, how do you cite your work? Can you share copies of it? In this webinar, we will […]

Finding and Using Open Educational Resources

Friday, July 27 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM via Zoom Finding and Using Open Educational Resources This webinar will demonstrate how you can use the pre-formatted HTML templates as a starting point for creating Content pages in D2L Brightspace. The templates provide you with example materials and page layouts that you may copy and edit as appropriate for your needs. […]