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.
Events
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Beyond the Classroom: Defining Co-Curricular Assessment (Fall 2025)
Co-Curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. In this webinar, we'll discuss perspectives on defining what co-curricular assessment means in the context of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and other professional organizations. Attendees will also have opportunities to share examples from their own... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (October 2025)
Date October 3, 2025 In-Person Workshop Location: Minnesota State System Office (St. Paul, MN) 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, explores generative AI tools, and applies equitable teaching... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Fall 2025)
October 6 - 26, 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 teaching... 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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Procrastination: Why Students (and We!) Do It, and How to Help (Fall 2025)
Many people struggle with procrastination: putting off the things we need to do, knowing fully the consequences of doing so, yet avoiding getting started anyway. We’ll start our time together discussing the variety of reasons behind procrastination, and then we’ll share tips we can offer our students when they tell us they’re struggling. Perhaps those... Continue Reading →
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OER Community Conversations: October 2025
"Bring Ideas to Life: Create, Animate, Express!" Stacey Van Gelderen DNP, MS, RNC-MNN, PHN Minnesota State University, Mankato School of Nursing Unleash your creativity in this hands-on workshop that introduces you to two powerful tools from Adobe: Adobe Express and Adobe Character Animator. Whether you're an educator, content creator, marketer, or digital storytelling enthusiast, this session... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency: Two Weekend Hybrid (Weekend 2, Fall 2025)
Dates Oct 11 - 12, 2025 In-Person In-Person: Note, you must attend both weekends in the same semester Location: South Metro, MN This two weekend hybrid course fulfills, in part, the Teaching and Learning Competency requirements. The requirements apply to Minnesota State college faculty completing the System Procedure 3.32.1, Part 8. Each hybrid intensive is... Continue Reading →
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College Algebra Corequisite Learning Community (Fall 2025)
Faculty Learning Community October 13 – December 5, 2025 Registration Closes October 1 NED + Math Pathways The NED has partnered with Math Pathways staff to offer educational development opportunities... Continue Reading →
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Statistics Corequisite Learning Community (Fall 2025)
Faculty Learning Community October 13 - December 5, 2025 Registration Closes October 1 NED + Math Pathways The NED has partnered with Math Pathways staff to offer educational development opportunities... Continue Reading →
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Quantitative Reasoning Corequisite Learning Community (Fall 2025)
Faculty Learning Community October 13 - December 5, 2025 Registration Closes October 1 NED + Math Pathways The NED has partnered with Math Pathways staff to offer educational development opportunities tailored to support Minnesota State mathematics and statistics faculty. Quantitative Reasoning Corequisite Learning Community This learning community is designed to explore the implementation of corequisite... Continue Reading →
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Co-curricular Assessment (Fall 2025)
October 13 - November 2, 2025 Short Course Description Co-curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. This 3-week course will provide participants with strategies and resources for implementing and strengthening co-curricular assessment in departments and functional areas with a unit-level focus. The course... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: October 2025
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the October 2025 release (version 20.25.10) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, October 16. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.... Continue Reading →
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