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.
Spring 2026 | Summer 2026 | NED Course Catalog | NED Resource Site
Events
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D2L HTML Templates
OnlineDescription Get a jump-start on creating your course Content by making use of some pre-built HTML template files available to you when building your online course materials. This webinar will... Continue Reading →
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What are Hyflex/Hybrid Modes of Delivery? (Webinar)
Description Tune into this panel discussion to learn how others from across the system have been implementing hyflex or hybrid modes of delivery. The panelists will go over what these... Continue Reading →
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Writing Good Questions for Assessments (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you'll learn about principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests. RSVP... Continue Reading →
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Grading Practices in Quizzes: Feedback and Data Analysis (Webinar)
OnlineThis event has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled at a future date. We apologize for any inconvenience. Description The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides different methods of feedback when assessing students for an online exam. You can choose how to score quiz questions: automatically, manually, and/or with blind marking. Come learn about best... Continue Reading →
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Creating an inviting digital learning space through Zoom (Webinar)
OnlineDescription There’s no place like home to provide an opportunity to personalize and humanize your digital learning space. But when facilitating sessions outside of a traditional setting, we need to be aware of techniques to share new expectations while easing anxiety around participants’ ability to successfully engage with the technology. In this 50 minute webinar... Continue Reading →
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Kaltura MediaSpace Webinar: Creating videos that support the cognitive and affective domains of learning
OnlineDescription In this webinar, the facilitator will provide participants with examples of how instructors can create videos that support both the cognitive and affective domains of learning. Cognitive domain: The facilitator will provide participants with a simple graphic organizer that supports the evidenced-based practice of chunking ---- helping to reduce the cognitive load on students... Continue Reading →
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You’re About to Grow: Using the Finding Your Place College Podcast for Student Orientation, Outreach and Virtual Mentoring (Webinar)
OnlineBackground In 2019, professors Robert Jersak (Century College) and Dave Engen (Minnesota State University, Mankato) teamed up with a diverse group of six students to produce The Finding Your Place College Podcast - a podcast series featuring authentic student voices as they explore the joys and challenges of college. The podcast is designed to reach all... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace June 29 – July 19 Description This spring, you may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for... Continue Reading →
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CRP and Open Educational Pedagogy (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Both Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19 pandemic. CRP advocates that education utilize student’s lived experience; OEP advocates that education empower students as partners in the creation of course materials and disciplinary... Continue Reading →
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What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Participants will review two common approaches to defining humanized learning, learn how national standards for online course quality incorporate humanizing strategies, and evaluate their current courses and practices to identify what's working and what might need improvement. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send... Continue Reading →
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Providing Wise Feedback (Webinar)
OnlineDescription We all give some sort of feedback to students on their assessments, whether it be point values, verbal corrections, or written suggestions. The question is “does the feedback help the student learn?” Join us to dive deep into feedback to learn best practices to make it as useful as possible for students in their... Continue Reading →
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Securing your online Zoom sessions (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Explore best practices in securely scheduling, managing and distributing information about virtual sessions in Zoom. Zoom has implemented new security features and in meeting controls to allow hosts to manage the potential threats that could impacted unsecure sessions. In this 50 minute webinar we will look at the new Security Control center and offer... Continue Reading →
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