The Minnesota State Network for Educational Development (NED) is pleased to offer a series of short courses, long courses, and faculty learning communities on the NED Events Calendar for the fall 2026 term.
These opportunities are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff and help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
Fall 2026 courses and faculty learning communities include:
- Accessible Course Documents,
- OER Basics and Beyond (new),
- Co-curricular Assessment
- Teaching with AI, and more!
Browse the NED Events Calendar or view the flyer to plan your educational development for the fall. Space is limited!
Registration is available now! Associated webinars will be added throughout the term, and their recordings will be on the NED Resource Site.
View the NED Course Catalog – Updated!
View the NED Course Catalog to find course learning objectives, overview of the opportunities by theme, and suggested sequencing of courses.
In the NED Course Catalog you can find:
- ways to use NED opportunities in your Professional Development Plan,
- NED Pathways for new faculty, mid-career faculty, and staff, and
- additional support for campus educational developers.
Note that not all opportunities in the catalog are offered each term. See the NED Course Cadence page to preview what opportunities will be offered during which term.
This catalog is updated before the Fall term each year, and is professionally remediated to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
2026-2027 NED Theme
Designing and Promoting Deep Learning Experiences in Changing Times
This year’s theme, Designing and Promoting Deep Learning Experiences in Changing Times, invites educators to explore how evolving student needs and emerging tools require shifts in teaching, learning, and assessment to meaningfully reshape education. Deep learning experiences create opportunities for learners to make rich conceptual connections, think critically, apply knowledge in unfamiliar situations, and integrate ideas across contexts.
This theme invites educators to work collaboratively to create and enhance rigorous and engaging learning experiences that are meaningful, equitable, and accessible. To achieve truly equitable deep learning experiences, they must be designed and promoted through asset-based, culturally sustaining and anti-oppressive pedagogies. Accessibility and equity come hand in hand with community, belonging, and diverse ways of knowing across cultures, identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
Learn More
Minnesota State faculty and staff can always find the current term’s opportunities on the NED Resource Site, or by browsing the NED Events Calendar.
Questions?
Contact the Network for Educational Development.