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
Events
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Time is an Issue: Finding and Using Already Accessible Materials (Webinar)
OnlineDescription As more of our faculty have to move to hybrid or fully on line modes of teaching this fall, time is an issue if we need to create all of our own materials that are fully accessible. Fortunately, there are materials that are already captioned, or formatted and accessible for students. Making use of... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Course – Section 1 (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 15 – July 5 Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no scheduled class... Continue Reading →
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Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools June 15 – July 5 Description The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support student-to-content interaction in courses. Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed. Monitoring learning outcomes based on student interaction with content. Improving content... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in 20.20.06?
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.06, the June release that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, June 18. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you reminder emails as the event date gets closer, but we suggest... Continue Reading →
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Using the D2L Brightspace Quizzing Tool to Help Assess Student Learning (Webinar)
OnlineDescription The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides a way for you to assess students with an online exam. Learn how you can utilize question layout, dates and time restrictions, and other quizzing features to align with your online exam. Whether you're new to online quizzing or have experience with it, come explore best practices... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Dive into some of the topics featured in the Minnesota State three week short course “Designing Your Course for Student Learning” beginning on July 6, 2020. Preview some of the topics in the course to decide if taking the course is the right fit for you! RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues – June
OnlineDescription When colleagues readied themselves for emergency remote teaching this spring, we all received a powerful reminder in the value of social learning. Colleagues from across the system who had been separated from one another through physical distance came together online to share ideas and learn from one another. We would like to sustain this... Continue Reading →
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D2L HTML Templates
OnlineDescription Get a jump-start on creating your course Content by making use of some pre-built HTML template files available to you when building your online course materials. This webinar will walk through the steps of selecting and revising the templates to make your class shine. Dress up your class and save time with templates that... Continue Reading →
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What are Hyflex/Hybrid Modes of Delivery? (Webinar)
Description Tune into this panel discussion to learn how others from across the system have been implementing hyflex or hybrid modes of delivery. The panelists will go over what these modes of delivery are, who needs to be involved, what prompted them to use these models, what works well, and if they have any critiques.... Continue Reading →
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Writing Good Questions for Assessments (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you'll learn about principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you reminder emails as the event date gets closer,... Continue Reading →
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Grading Practices in Quizzes: Feedback and Data Analysis (Webinar)
OnlineThis event has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled at a future date. We apologize for any inconvenience. Description The Quizzes tool in D2L Brightspace provides different methods of feedback when assessing students for an online exam. You can choose how to score quiz questions: automatically, manually, and/or with blind marking. Come learn about best... Continue Reading →
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Creating an inviting digital learning space through Zoom (Webinar)
OnlineDescription There’s no place like home to provide an opportunity to personalize and humanize your digital learning space. But when facilitating sessions outside of a traditional setting, we need to be aware of techniques to share new expectations while easing anxiety around participants’ ability to successfully engage with the technology. In this 50 minute webinar... Continue Reading →
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