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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Conversations with Colleagues (October 2025)
Helping Students Navigate Educational Technology Are your students struggling to keep up with the educational technology you or campus faculty are integrating into their courses? Join us for the next Conversations with Colleagues session focused on Helping Students Navigate Educational Technology. We’ll explore both the possibilities and barriers students face when using faculty-assigned and system-supported... Continue Reading →
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Educational Developers Connect (Fall 2025)
As campus educational developers, our roles may include a variety of activities: Facilitating conversations about teaching, supporting course design, academic technology, and equitable pratice, coordinating or providing professional development, leading professional development committees or centers for teaching and learning - and more! Are you a campus educational developer? Join us for an opportunity to... Continue Reading →
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Using Strategies from Success Coaching to Support Equitable Advising (Fall 2025)
In our effort to support a diverse population of students, transactional forms of advising—those strictly limited to course selection—should be interrogated and revised where possible. A fruitful area that can... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (November 2025)
November 3 - 23, 2025 Short Course Note: Registration is now at maximum capacity (10/22/2025) This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context.... Continue Reading →
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Hacking Your Course Assessments (Fall 2025)
November 3 - 23, 2025 Short Course Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you will examine the assessments... Continue Reading →
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Co-Curricular Learning Outcome Taxonomies – Exploring Bloom’s and Fink’s (Fall 2025)
Many of us in the field of assessment are familiar with using Bloom's Taxonomy that focuses on cognitive and intellectual learning. Fink's Taxonomy, which focuses on how learning can inspire... Continue Reading →
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Reframing Scholarship in the Classroom (Fall 2025)
This webinar is designed for instructors who are curious about SoTL but may be skeptical of its legitimacy, relevance, or practicality. We will unpack common myths about SoTL—from the belief that it’s not “real” research to concerns about its value in tenure and promotion. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of what SoTL is, why... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry (Fall 2025)
November 10 - 30, 2025 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for turning... Continue Reading →
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Capturing Your Equity Work (Fall 2025)
In this session, we will discuss the different ways we strive to create equitable learning experiences for all our students. Generational differences, how different policies impact certain populations more than others, and even our own learning preferences all affect what happens in our classrooms. Let’s talk about the ways we can recognize the equity work... Continue Reading →
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Say Hi to AI: Getting Started with Copilot (November 2025)
Say Hi to AI: Getting Started with Copilot Join us for a short, 30-minute session to learn about Microsoft Copilot—an AI tool available to everyone at Minnesota State. You’ll get... Continue Reading →
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I can’t teach with the arts, and other academic lies we tell ourselves: Breaking the Myth
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 is to continue honoring and showcasing the experience and expertise of the Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence Educators of the Year through the opportunity... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: November 2025
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the November 2025 release (version 20.25.11) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, November 20. 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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