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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Discussion Boards: Integrating Choices for Modality (Summer 2025)
Discussion boards for online classes can be a powerful modality for students to strengthen critical thinking, engage in collaboration, and share different and common ideas regarding the course content. Despite the benefits of discussion boards, instructors must enhance and adjust discussion boards to ensure students not only self-evaluate and take an approach in cultural humility,... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency and the NED – MSCF Probationary Faculty (Option 1)
In this webinar, we will introduce the new course provider for the MSCF Teaching & Learning Competency, the Network for Educational Development (NED). This session is designed for MSCF probationary faculty. During the webinar, you will: Learn about the new course provider for the Teaching & Learning Competency. Discover the courses offered by the Network... Continue Reading →
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Creating Content Pages Using HTML Templates in D2L Brightspace (Summer 2025)
Enhance your Content pages in D2L Brightspace using pre-formatted HTML templates. These templates offer ready-made layouts that you can easily adapt to suit your teaching style and course objectives. In this session, we’ll walk through the process of selecting and customizing the HTML templates to create dynamic, accessible, and visually appealing Content pages. You’ll also... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: August 2025
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the August 2025 release (version 20.25.08) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, August 21. 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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Creating an Accessibility Strategy for Your Online Courses (Fall 2025)
As faculty prepare their online courses for the upcoming semester, ensuring accessibility is not just a legal requirement—it’s a commitment to inclusive education. This one-hour session will guide instructors through the process of developing a practical and sustainable accessibility strategy tailored to their course design. Participants will explore key principles, tools, and workflows that support... Continue Reading →
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The Importance of Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom (Fall 2025)
You can leverage the power of instructor presence to strengthen relationships with students and enhance communication and engagement in your online courses. The efforts that we make to connect with our students in our online courses can increase student success. In addition, instructor presence in online courses is also central to a set of federal... Continue Reading →
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Say Hi to AI: Getting Started with Copilot (September 2025)
Say Hi to AI: Getting Started with Copilot Join us for a short, 30-minute session to learn about Microsoft Copilot—an AI tool available to everyone at Minnesota State. You’ll get a quick overview of how Copilot can help you work smarter. We’ll show you how to sign in with your StarID, give tips for writing... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with H5P Series (September 2025)
Teaching with H5P Series Featuring: Emily Houghton (Sports Management, Minnesota State University, Mankato) 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 accessible and equitable... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency and the NED – MSCF Probationary Faculty (Option 2)
In this webinar, we will introduce the new course provider for the MSCF Teaching & Learning Competency, the Network for Educational Development (NED). This session is designed for MSCF probationary faculty. During the webinar, you will: Learn about the new course provider for the Teaching & Learning Competency. Discover the courses offered by the Network... Continue Reading →
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10 Small Steps You Can Take to Support RSI in Your Courses (Fall 2025)
What exactly is Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) and what does it mean for your online courses? This webinar will present an overview of RSI along with concrete, practical, small steps you can take right now to support your students. Among the topics covered will be simple strategies for communication, feedback and monitoring student progress.... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Check-Up with the Quality Matters Rubric (Fall 2025)
Preparing an online course that’s accessible to all learners is essential—but knowing where to start can be overwhelming. This one-hour webinar is designed for faculty who are new to accessible course design and want to build confidence using the Quality Matters (QM) 7th Edition Rubric, specifically General Standard 8, to evaluate and improve the accessibility... Continue Reading →
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Strengths-Based Advising (Fall 2025)
A subtle but pernicious challenge to students from marginalized populations navigating higher education is the presence of deficit thinking in implicit and explicit forms. Advising, as a primary and ongoing site of personal and academic discovery for students, can be one location where deficit framing has the greatest impact. As advisors, the way we speak... Continue Reading →
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