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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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 webinar discusses digital accessibility and how to get started achieving that. The webinar will especially helpful to individuals and campuses who are just getting started... 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 to interrupt ableism. You can expect to create documents and/or find ways to apply your learning right away, including options like: Write/revise inclusive accessibility statements,... 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 course design and want to build confidence using the Quality Matters (QM) 7th Edition Rubric, specifically General Standard 8, to evaluate and improve the accessibility... 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 their rights for power and access. This session provides an introduction to the tenants of disability justice and identifies key differences between disability rights -... 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, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... 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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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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Accessible Course Documents (Spring 2026)
January 19 - February 8, 2026 Short Course Description This three-week short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a... Continue Reading →
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Student Review: How to Get Real Feedback (Spring 2026)
Lake Superior College has been running a program that trains students to review online courses, using a variety of rubrics and interviews. This student centered program has produced some new and excellent feedback for faculty, and helps LSC upgrade its online courses. This webinar will offer both process and feedback information. All materials are available... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership: Accessibility Core Competencies – IAAP Cohort (Spring 2026)
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 Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) prep course. You don’t need to take the CPACC exam to benefit from this course. It’s a great way... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Remediation Sprints: Get Started with the 3Rs (2026)
Join us for a hands-on series that makes digital accessibility simple and practical! These Accessibility Remediation Sprints are your chance to learn essential strategies, explore tools, and create content that works for everyone. About this Sprint: Get Started with the 3Rs In this session, we will explore an overall approach to accessibility remediation, the 3Rs:... Continue Reading →
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Small Steps Towards Accessibility Support (Spring 2026)
Are you or your college struggling with figuring out what steps to take in order to address the legal and ethical issues found in becoming an accessibility-friendly college? Come and check out a few legal basics, and some good basic steps you can take to increase accessibility for your college and for your courses. Accommodations... Continue Reading →
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