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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Equity by Design Onboarding (Spring 2025)
March 31 - April 27, 2025 Short Course Description This four-week short course is designed to build foundational skills and knowledge for engaging in the Equity by Design methodology. Equity... Continue Reading →
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Regular and Substantive Interaction (Spring 2025)
April 7 - April 27, 2025 Short Course Description Enhance your teaching toolkit with this 3-week course focused on regular and substantive interaction (What is regular and substantive interaction?). You'll... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice II (Spring 2025)
April 14 - May 4, 2025 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown,... Continue Reading →
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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... Continue Reading →
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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... Continue Reading →
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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... Continue Reading →
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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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Integrating Retrieval Practice (Summer 2025)
July 7 - July 27, 2025 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve... Continue Reading →
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Collecting and Analyzing Classroom Data (Summer 2025)
July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101 (Summer 2025)
July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect our values... Continue Reading →
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Build Your Course Essentials (Summer 2025)
July 21 - August 10, 2025 Short Course In this three-week short course you will learn essential strategies for building an effective course with technology (D2L Brightspace). Each module includes two key strategies for student success: Module 1: Planning to Build and Start Here Module Module 2: Welcoming Course Homepage and Grades and Feedback Module... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Summer 2025)
July 28 - August 17, 2025 Short Course Description In this course, we will review and enhance the design of your course to support student learning. We will focus on the key strategy of alignment. Alignment ensures that course content, activities, and assessments are directly connected to the learning objectives. This approach assures that students... Continue Reading →
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