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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Accessible Course Documents (Summer 2025)
June 9 - June 29, 2025 Short Course Description This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen... Continue Reading →
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Microsoft Word Accessibility Checker: A Live Demo (Summer 2025)
Have you heard about Microsoft Word’s Accessibility Checker? This webinar will include a demonstration of the tool and provide practical tips for its use. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing... 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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Accessible Course Documents (Fall 2025)
August 25 - September 14, 2025 Short Course Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership: Accessibility Core Competencies – IAAP Cohort (Fall 2025)
What’s this about? As a Minnesota State faculty or staff member, you get a free membership to the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). This includes access to the Certified... Continue Reading →
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Digital Accessibility: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How
Recent and revised federal guidelines provide us with an upcoming deadline of April 2026 as the time when all digital materials, even password protected materials, must be accessible. This introductory... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice I (Fall 2025)
September 22 - October 12, 2025 Short Course Description In this 3-week introduction to disability justice course, you will learn about disability justice, practice using inclusive language, and apply strategies... 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... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice: from individual rights to collective power (Fall 2025)
Disability Justice is a framework that prioritizes disabled women, indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, gender-nonconforming and other historically excluded groups recognizing the political and social structures that work against... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media (Fall 2025)
October 20 - November 9, 2025 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities,... 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... 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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