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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Webinars
Events
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Beyond the Classroom: Defining Co-Curricular Assessment (Fall 2025)
Co-Curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. In this webinar, we'll discuss perspectives on defining what co-curricular assessment means in the context of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and other professional organizations. Attendees will also have opportunities to share examples from their own... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice: from individual rights to collective power (Fall 2025)
Disability Justice is a framework that prioritizes disabled women, indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, gender-nonconforming and other historically excluded groups recognizing the political and social structures that work against their rights for power and access. This session provides an introduction to the tenants of disability justice and identifies key differences between disability rights -... Continue Reading →
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Procrastination: Why Students (and We!) Do It, and How to Help (Fall 2025)
Many people struggle with procrastination: putting off the things we need to do, knowing fully the consequences of doing so, yet avoiding getting started anyway. We’ll start our time together discussing the variety of reasons behind procrastination, and then we’ll share tips we can offer our students when they tell us they’re struggling. Perhaps those... Continue Reading →
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OER Community Conversations: October 2025
"Bring Ideas to Life: Create, Animate, Express!" Stacey Van Gelderen DNP, MS, RNC-MNN, PHN Minnesota State University, Mankato School of Nursing Unleash your creativity in this hands-on workshop that introduces you to two powerful tools from Adobe: Adobe Express and Adobe Character Animator. Whether you're an educator, content creator, marketer, or digital storytelling enthusiast, this session... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: October 2025
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the October 2025 release (version 20.25.10) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, October 16. 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 →
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Designing Course Maps (Fall 2025)
In this webinar, Shannon Gibney, one of the facilitators of the NED course, "Designing Your Course for Student Learning," will take you through the elements of designing course maps: Backward... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with H5P Series (October 2025)
Teaching with H5P Series Featuring: Jody Ondich (Philosophy, Lake Superior College) What is H5P? H5P is a tool for creating interactive online learning content and activities. There are many interactive types: practice questions, drag and drop, image hotspot, timeline, virtual tour, branching scenario, and more. The Teaching with H5P Series explores equitable teaching methods and H5P. ... Continue Reading →
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Empowering Success: Practical Accessibility Strategies to Enhance Learning and Work Environments (Fall 2025)
This webinar explores foundational technical techniques for embedding accessibility into learning experience design and will demonstrate how small, intentional changes can create more inclusive and effective materials. Participants will gain practical skills to improve access and usability in both educational and workplace settings including the physical, digital, communication, and participation areas. Accommodations The NED is committed... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series (October 2025)
Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series Featuring: Dane Seelen (Computer Science, Central Lakes College) The Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series explores AI and equitable teaching. In each 30-minute session a featured colleague shares how they’re using AI in their teaching. You’ll see a real example in action and hear how it supports student... Continue Reading →
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Reflecting on and Revising Course Design (Fall 2025)
In this webinar, Shannon Gibney, one of the facilitators of the short course "Designing Your Course for Student Learning," will explore strategies for reflecting on what's working and what could be working better in your course, and how to apply these reflections to revise your course design. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access... Continue Reading →
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Working with Pressbooks: Discovery, Imagining, Refining (Summer 2025)
This webinar will introduce you to Pressbooks, a publishing software available in both a free and professional form to residents of Minnesota. Whether you are looking for a place to create a simple module or an entire textbook, this is a user-friendly software for you. We will introduce the basic tools of Pressbooks, but in... Continue Reading →
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Time is an Issue: Accessible Materials and Where to Find Them (Summer 2025)
Most of us would like to have our materials accessible and ready to go, but simply lack time, and need some help. If you could find already captioned, already screen reader-friendly materials that you could use--you would sure look at them, right? This is an overview of some excellent resources that would come to you... Continue Reading →
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