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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Events
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Grade Smarter Not Harder (Spring 2025)
January 21 - February 9, 2025 Short Course Description Improving your assessments can do more than just measure what students know. It can also boost learning and save you time... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with H5P Series (January 2025)
Teaching with H5P Series What is H5P? H5P is a tool for creating interactive online learning content and activities. There are many interactive types: practice questions, drag and drop, image hotspot,... Continue Reading →
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Giving Powerful Feedback in the D2L Assignments Folder (Spring 2025)
The Assignments folder in D2L is the place where students can turn in written work, most commonly essays. In this interactive webinar, we’ll look at the Assignments tool and the... Continue Reading →
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Get to Know the NED (Spring 2025)
Welcome to the NED! The Network for Educational Development provides free and equitable educational development to thousands across Minnesota State. In this webinar we invite you to get to know... Continue Reading →
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OEN Webinar
Open Education Network (OEN) Webinars introduce Minnesota State faculty and staff to open educational resources, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library at the University of... Continue Reading →
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OER Librarian Community of Practice (January 2025)
Discuss with librarian colleagues various technologies like Pressbooks, H5P, Perusall, Hypothesis, MyOpenMath, and others that can be a part of creating or using open resources. In addition, we will share... Continue Reading →
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Inclusive Video Conferencing (Spring 2025)
January 27 - February 16, 2025 Short Course Learn practical strategies to create equitable and engaging video conferencing classes/meetings. Experience and practice how to model and maintain equitable and accessible... Continue Reading →
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OER FAQ: January
Description In this webinar, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more! Submit... Continue Reading →
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Creating a Sense of Community (Spring 2025)
One major aspect of culturally responsive pedagogy is creating a sense of community in a course. We will focus on the benefits of developing a strong sense of community in... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Spring 2025)
February 3 - February 23, 2025 Short Course Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our... Continue Reading →
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From Teaching Innovation to Classroom Research: Using SoTL and IRB
Have you ever tried something new in your teaching to improve student learning outcomes? Many instructors regularly evaluate their teaching informally but rarely share their efforts with others. Perhaps you've... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop: Part 1 (February 2025)
February 6, 2025 4-Part Virtual Series Workshop registration is full, join the waiting list to be notified of open spots. 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... Continue Reading →
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