NED Events Calendar

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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  • 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • 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 →

    Free
  • 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 →

    Free
  • 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 →

    Free
  • 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 →

    Free
  • 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 →

    Free
  • 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:... Continue Reading →

    Free

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