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.
Spring 2026 | Summer 2026 | NED Course Catalog | NED Resource Site
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Hacking Your Course Assessments (Summer 2025)
May 19 - June 8, 2025 Short Course Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you’ll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help... Continue Reading →
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Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery (Summer 2025)
May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license. It is easy to use and provides... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design (Summer 2025)
May 27 - June 15, 2025 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 →
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Accessible Course Documents (Summer 2025)
June 9 - June 29, 2025 Short Course Description This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course introduces participants to basic techniques and available in Microsoft Word. Additionally, participants will get an opportunity to update web pages posted to... Continue Reading →
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Integrating Retrieval Practice (Summer 2025)
July 7 - July 27, 2025 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... Continue Reading →
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Collecting and Analyzing Classroom Data (Summer 2025)
July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101 (Summer 2025)
July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we... Continue Reading →
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Build Your Course Essentials (Summer 2025)
July 21 - August 10, 2025 Short Course In this three-week short course you will learn essential strategies for building an effective course with technology (D2L Brightspace). Each module includes... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Summer 2025)
July 28 - August 17, 2025 Short Course Description In this course, we will review and enhance the design of your course to support student learning. We will focus on... Continue Reading →
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Summer 2025: Philosophy of Community and Technical College Education
OnlineRegistration opens March 15 Course opens May 15 You may register for this course at anytime within the registration dates listed below. Course Terms The following table illustrates course term... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Course Documents (Fall 2025)
August 25 - September 14, 2025 Short Course Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course will introduce participants to basic techniques for using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint. Additionally,... Continue Reading →
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Regular and Substantive Interaction (Fall 2025)
September 2 - 21, 2025 Short Course Description Enhance your teaching toolkit with this 3-week course focused on regular and substantive interaction (What is regular and substantive interaction?). You'll apply equitable practices and technology tools to support student-instructor interaction. Whether you teach online, or you’d like to bring more interaction into your in-person courses, this... Continue Reading →
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