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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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 Course Design, course and module outcomes, taxonomies, reflections, and more. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we'd like... 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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Conversations with Colleagues (October 2025)
Helping Students Navigate Educational Technology Are your students struggling to keep up with the educational technology you or campus faculty are integrating into their courses? Join us for the next Conversations with Colleagues session focused on Helping Students Navigate Educational Technology. We’ll explore both the possibilities and barriers students face when using faculty-assigned and system-supported... Continue Reading →
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Educational Developers Connect (Fall 2025)
As campus educational developers, our roles may include a variety of activities: Facilitating conversations about teaching, supporting course design, academic technology, and equitable pratice, coordinating or providing professional development, leading professional development committees or centers for teaching and learning - and more! Are you a campus educational developer? Join us for an opportunity to... Continue Reading →
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Using Strategies from Success Coaching to Support Equitable Advising (Fall 2025)
In our effort to support a diverse population of students, transactional forms of advising—those strictly limited to course selection—should be interrogated and revised where possible. A fruitful area that can offer strategies is academic success coaching, which focuses on holistic, ongoing support of students centered around the concept of goal setting and personal development. Yet... Continue Reading →
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Co-Curricular Learning Outcome Taxonomies – Exploring Bloom’s and Fink’s (Fall 2025)
Many of us in the field of assessment are familiar with using Bloom's Taxonomy that focuses on cognitive and intellectual learning. Fink's Taxonomy, which focuses on how learning can inspire holistic change across multiple dimensions of one's life, can be particularly useful in co-curricular assessment. This webinar will explore the intersections of both taxonomies with... Continue Reading →
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Reframing Scholarship in the Classroom (Fall 2025)
This webinar is designed for instructors who are curious about SoTL but may be skeptical of its legitimacy, relevance, or practicality. We will unpack common myths about SoTL—from the belief that it’s not “real” research to concerns about its value in tenure and promotion. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of what SoTL is, why... Continue Reading →
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