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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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  • NED: Foundations

    Empathy by Design (Summer 2026)

    June 1 - June 21, 2026 Short Course Description  Course Overview This online, asynchronous course is for Minnesota State faculty who want to use evidence‑based strategies to make their courses more human-centered through thoughtful facilitation and design. Course Format The course has no scheduled class meetings. You will work on your own schedule to complete... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    Collecting and Analyzing Classroom Data (Summer 2026)

    June 1 - June 21, 2026 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature review of the topic. From there, participants will explore evidence approaches (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods), select an appropriate tool from that evidence approach, determine... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED: Academic Technologies

    Build Your Course Essentials (Summer 2026)

    June 8 - 28, 2026 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 two key strategies for student success: Module 1: Planning to Build and Start Here Module Module 2: Welcoming Course Homepage and Grades and Feedback Module 3:... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED: Accessibility

    Accessible Course Documents (Summer 2026)

    June 15 - July 5, 2026 Short Course Description  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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • NED Themes

    Teaching and Learning Competency: Weeklong Intensive (Summer 2026)

    Dates June 22 to June 26, 2026 In-Person: You must attend all week, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday Location: Central Lakes College Brainerd, MN This weeklong intensive course fulfills, in part, the Teaching and Learning Competency requirements. The requirements apply to Minnesota State college faculty completing the System Procedure 3.32.1, Part 8.... Continue Reading →

    Free

  • NED: Academic Equity

    Equity 101 (Summer 2026)

    July 27 - August 16, 2026 Short Course Description This 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 →

    Free

  • NED: Foundations

    Grade Smarter Not Harder (Summer 2026)

    August 3 - 23, 2026 Short Course Description  Improving your assessments can do more than just measure what students know. It can also boost learning and save you time in the long run. In this short course, you’ll learn how to: Apply key principles of validity and reliability Write effective quiz and test questions Review and... Continue Reading →

    Free

  • NED: Academic Technologies

    Regular and Substantive Interaction (Fall 2026)

    August 31 - September 20, 2026 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,... Continue Reading →

    Free

  • NED Partnership Workshop: QM – Connecting Learning Theories to Your Teaching Strategies (Fall 2026)

    September 11 - October 9, 2026 Short Course Join a 4-week NED partnership workshop offered through Quality Matters (QM). QM: Connecting Learning Theories to Your Teaching Strategies– Participants in this workshop will learn about several different theories of learning and how teaching strategies based on those theories can promote learning. Format: The partnership workshop includes... Continue Reading →

    Free

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