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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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 apply equitable practices and technology tools to support student-instructor interaction. Whether you teach online, or you’d like to bring more interaction into your in-person courses,... Continue Reading →
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From the Margins: Session Two (Spring 2025)
Examining Military Service From the Margins Veterans, active service members, and civilians are invited to contribute to the “Examining Military Service From the Margins” virtual discussion series. Facilitated by pairs... Continue Reading →
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OER Librarian Community of Practice (April 2025)
Discuss with librarian colleagues the role of libraries in promoting, cataloging, and storing open resources created by faculty. In addition, we will share concerns and best practices about OER and... Continue Reading →
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A Conversation about Neurodiversity in the Classroom (Spring 2025)
Join us for a webinar with Caroline Toscano, Ph.D., Instructional Designer (Century College). Caroline will share her best practices and experiences in supporting neurodiverse students. This session is for all... Continue Reading →
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RSI 2: Regular and Substantive Interaction: Feedback Strategies and Tools for the Online Classroom (Spring 2025)
Take a moment to think back on your own educational experiences. When did the feedback you received from your instructor support your learning? What was it about that feedback that... Continue Reading →
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OER Project Showcase: 3
Since 2018, Minnesota State faculty have been participating in the OER Learning Circles program, where they collaborate with colleagues from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around OER and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate course material costs for students. OER are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools,... 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, indigenous, and people of color and builds on foundational disability justice topics in the context of higher education to move equity awareness into equity action.... Continue Reading →
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From the Margins: Session Three (Spring 2025)
Examining Military Service From the Margins Veterans, active service members, and civilians are invited to contribute to the “Examining Military Service From the Margins” virtual discussion series. Facilitated by pairs... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: April 2025
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the April 2025 release (version 20.25.04) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, April 17. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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PressbookEDU Office Hour
Pressbooks is an open-source book publishing tool that allows you to publish content to the web and in a variety of export formats from a single source. Pressbooks is used... Continue Reading →
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OER Project Showcase: 4
Since 2018, Minnesota State faculty have been participating in the OER Learning Circles program, where they collaborate with colleagues from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around OER and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate course material costs for students. OER are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools,... Continue Reading →
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OER Project Showcase: 5
Since 2018, Minnesota State faculty have been participating in the OER Learning Circles program, where they collaborate with colleagues from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around OER and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate course material costs for students. OER are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools,... Continue Reading →
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