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.

Fall 2026  |  NED Course Catalog  |  NED Resource Site

  • Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) – Start 2 Weeks

    Online

    Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of the Quality Matters Rubric. Participants... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication Using Individual Discussions in D2L Brightspace

    Online

    Description With a few changes in your discussion settings, you can create private discussions in your D2L Brightspace course.  In this private discussion space you can communicate with individual students one-on-one.  This allows you to keep track of student-to-instructor communication without messages getting lost in your email. Faculty members have also found this strategy is... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Building Instructor Presence in Online and Blended Courses

    Online

    Creating a sense of community and instructor presence is important in all courses. In an online or blended course, it can come with some challenges. This session will provide strategies for using D2L tools such as Announcements, Content, Email/Classlist, Intelligent Agents, Personalized Notifications, and Discussion Boards to build your instructor presence. Examples will be showcased.... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Out from the Shadows Workshop Series: Homelessness

    Online

    Background Minnesota State Office of Equity and Inclusion, Minnesota State Educational Innovations, and Minneapolis College present Out from the Shadows Workshop Series. Out from the Shadows of Minneapolis: Power, Pride, and Perseverance at a Northern Community College is an open anthology of stories and memoirs written by students, staff, and faculty from Minneapolis College. They... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Quick Eval Tool: Saving Time on Grading

    Online

    Description The Quick Eval tool in D2L Brightspace provides you a single location to view all unevaluated student submissions (Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes) from all your Brightspace courses.  You can sort,... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Annotations in Assignment Submissions

    Online

    Description Using the Annotation tool n to D2L Brightspace , you can quickly complete your evaluation and feedback work directly from the Assignments tool, without the need to use any... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Virtual Reality Workshop @ St. Cloud State University

    St. Cloud State University - ISELF 118 720 4th Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN, United States

    Don't miss out on this free opportunity for Minnesota State faculty, staff, and administrators to learn more about virtual reality and how you can use it in the classroom. Get... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Koffee with Karen: Z-Degree

    Online

    Koffee with Karen: Community Conversations are open forum conversations for all to share, discuss, and learn from colleagues in the Minnesota State OER community. Hosted by Karen Pikula, the OER... Continue Reading →

    Free

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