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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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... 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 practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). In this introductory course, we’ll have the... 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... 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... 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,... 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 tailored to support Minnesota State mathematics and statistics faculty. College Algebra Corequisite Learning Community This faculty learning community will be a collaboration space for faculty... 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 tailored to support Minnesota State mathematics and statistics faculty. Statistics Corequisite Learning Community This learning community will be a collaboration space for faculty to identify... 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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Designing Course Maps (Fall 2025)
In this webinar, Shannon Gibney, one of the facilitators of the NED course, "Designing Your Course for Student Learning," will take you through the elements of designing course maps: Backward Course Design, course and module outcomes, taxonomies, reflections, and more. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we'd like... Continue Reading →
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