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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  • Conversations with Colleagues: April 2025

    Topic Self-Care Conversations - Empowering Well-Being at Work Join us for an engaging and supportive session dedicated to self-care and well-being. This interactive workshop is designed to help colleagues explore and enhance their self-care practices, fostering a healthier and more balanced work environment. Session Highlights: We will share our understanding of the importance of self-care... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Educational Developer Meeting (April 2025)

    An open invitation for self-identified Educational Developers on campuses. Educational Developers are individuals on campus who identify, coordinate, lead, and/or facilitate educational development opportunities on campus that support teaching and learning. At these Educational Developer meetings, engage in the community by networking with peers, resource sharing, engaging in meaningful conversations, and learning how NED resources... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Antiracist Practices for Search Committee Members (Summer 2025)

    This webinar provides an opportunity to discuss antiracist practices for search committee service. Part of academic equity work is to ensure that students can see themselves reflected in the faculty and staff within their college or university. As our student population becomes increasingly diverse, intentional efforts to increase the diversity of campus faculty and staff... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Leveraging Technology for Humanizing Online Learning (Summer 2025)

    Explore technology use to increase humanizing strategies in your online courses. Discuss tools and strategies that help build strong connections with students, ideas for learner collaboration to foster a sense of community, and using D2L Brightspace tools. By leveraging a variety of strategies and tools, instructors can increase online course interactivity, personalization, and impact, ultimately... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • What’s New in D2L Brightspace: May 2025

    This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the May 2025 release (version 20.25.05) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, May 15. 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 →

    Free
  • Exploring Flexible Course Delivery (Summer 2025)

    May 15 - May 16 Apply by March 31 In-Person Workshop Location: System Office, St. Paul, MN This interactive 2-day workshop is designed to explore flexible course delivery. Participants will examine the benefits and challenges of various flexible delivery methods, including HyFlex, bi-modal, and tri-modal approaches. Attendees will also workshop equitable teaching, technology tools, and... Continue Reading →

  • Making Zoom Sessions More Accessible and Inclusive (Summer 2025)

    We might be used to using Zoom in our work, but not all of us, especially our students, are. In this session, we’ll look at Zoom reactions, annotations, and the whiteboard along with the benefits and barriers of those tools when meeting in Zoom. We’ll also talk about community agreements and how to create norms... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Hacking Your Course Assessments (Summer 2025)

    May 19 - June 8, 2025 Short Course Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended?  In this course, you’ll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • PressbookEDU Office Hour

    PressbookEDU Office Hour

    Pressbooks is an open-source book publishing tool that allows you to publish content to the web and in a variety of export formats from a single source. Pressbooks is used widely in OER programs for remixing, creating, and adopting open content, but it can also be used to make other materials like syllabi, dissertations or... Continue Reading →

  • Teaching with AI Workshop (May 2025)

    Date May 23, 2025 In-Person Workshop Location: Winona State University This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants will collectively explore generative AI tools and (re-)design a learning activity or assessment that supports AI literacy, incorporates or resists generative AI tools, and applies equitable teaching practices. At... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery (Summer 2025)

    May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license.  It is easy to use and provides a variety of options for including media such as images and videos.  This short course will introduce you to the platform, walk you through creating... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Empathy by Design (Summer 2025)

    May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course Description  This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there... Continue Reading →

    Free

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