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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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... 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... 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... Continue Reading →
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Kaltura MediaSpace Webinar: Creating videos that support the cognitive and affective domains of learning
OnlineDescription In this webinar, the facilitator will provide participants with examples of how instructors can create videos that support both the cognitive and affective domains of learning. Cognitive domain: The... Continue Reading →
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You’re About to Grow: Using the Finding Your Place College Podcast for Student Orientation, Outreach and Virtual Mentoring (Webinar)
OnlineBackground In 2019, professors Robert Jersak (Century College) and Dave Engen (Minnesota State University, Mankato) teamed up with a diverse group of six students to produce The Finding Your Place... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace June 29 – July 19 Description This spring, you may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for... Continue Reading →
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CRP and Open Educational Pedagogy (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Both Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
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What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Participants will review two common approaches to defining humanized learning, learn how national standards for online course quality incorporate humanizing strategies, and evaluate their current courses and practices to... Continue Reading →
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Providing Wise Feedback (Webinar)
OnlineDescription We all give some sort of feedback to students on their assessments, whether it be point values, verbal corrections, or written suggestions. The question is “does the feedback help... Continue Reading →
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Securing your online Zoom sessions (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Explore best practices in securely scheduling, managing and distributing information about virtual sessions in Zoom. Zoom has implemented new security features and in meeting controls to allow hosts to manage the potential threats that could impacted unsecure sessions. In this 50 minute webinar we will look at the new Security Control center and offer... Continue Reading →
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Five Ways to Humanize Your Online Course – Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Participants will be guided through interactive demonstrations of five specific humanizing practices they could integrate in to their own online courses. Each demonstration will focus on a specific evidence-based course facilitation or design practice using tools available to all Minnesota State instructors. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 6 – July 26 Description This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master. Here is what participants will do in this course: Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course module... Continue Reading →
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