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.
Spring 2026 | Summer 2026 | NED Course Catalog | NED Resource Site
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Integrating Retrieval Practice (Spring 2026)
March 23 - April 12, 2026 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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Equity by Design Onboarding (Spring 2026)
March 23 - April 19, 2026 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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Minnesota State REFLECT Applications Due
Faculty Learning Community 2026-2028 Cohort The Minnesota State REFLECT program brings together faculty from across disciplines, institutions, and experience to participate in a 2-year Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)... Continue Reading →
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2026 Open Education Conference
March 25-26, 2026 | Virtual Open Innovation, Collaboration, and Transformation Join colleagues from across Minnesota State for a two-day virtual conference focused on OER and innovative practices in open education... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series (March 2026)
Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series Featuring: Cody Stanley (History, Alexandria Technical & Community College) The Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series explores AI and equitable teaching. In each... Continue Reading →
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Windows, Mirrors, and Gray Matters
Minnesota State is filled with incredible faculty who are doing amazing work focused on their teaching craft. The purpose of the Network for Educational Development (NED) Excellence in Teaching Series... Continue Reading →
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To Video, or Not to Video (Spring 2026)
Videos require a significant time investment to create. This webinar will discuss pros and cons to creating instructional videos so that people can make informed decisions about when the payoff... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (March 2026)
March 27, 2026 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... Continue Reading →
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Small group activities that build student connection (Spring 2026)
The old educational wisdom is that students learn best on their own, or from their instructors. The new educational wisdom, supported by lots of research, is that students learn better... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with Video Technologies (Spring 2026)
March 30 - April 19, 2026 Short Course Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Inquiry and IRB (Spring 2026)
March 30 - April 19, 2026 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency and the NED – MSCF Probationary Faculty (Spring 2026)
In this webinar, we will introduce the new course provider for the MSCF Teaching & Learning Competency, the Network for Educational Development (NED). This session is designed for MSCF probationary... Continue Reading →
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