NED Events Calendar

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  |  NED Course Catalog  |  NED Resource Site

  • Agency in Action: Inside and Outside the Classroom: Session One

    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 →

    Free
  • Classroom Inquiry and IRB (Spring 2025)

    February 17 - March 9, 2025 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of equity and ethics. In doing so, participants will review what counts as valid and reliable data and two major approaches to make sense of different... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Teaching with H5P Series (February 2025)

    Teaching with H5P Series What is H5P? H5P is a tool for creating interactive online learning content and activities. There are many interactive types: practice questions, drag and drop, image hotspot,... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Agency in Action: Inside and Outside the Classroom: Session Two

    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 (BOT) Awards for Excellence Educators of the Year through the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • PressbookEDU Office Hour

    PressbookEDU Office Hour

    Pressbooks is an open-source book publishing tool that allows you to publish content to the web and in a variety of export formats from a single source. Pressbooks is used widely in OER programs for remixing, creating, and adopting open content, but it can also be used to make other materials like syllabi, dissertations or... Continue Reading →

  • OER Community Conversations: February

    Description This session, Fran will be sharing OER-related projects that she is involved with at the system office, including the Open Textbooks Pilot project and the Zero-Textbook Cost Transfer Pathways (Z-TP) initiative. She will also touch on the importance of collaboration and the need for developing OER that is accessible, culturally responsive, and rooted in... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Beyond the Classroom – Defining Co-Curricular Assessment (Spring 2025)

    Co-Curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. In this webinar, we'll discuss perspectives on defining what co-curricular assessment means in the context of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and other professional organizations. Attendees will also have opportunities to share examples from their own... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Conversations with Colleagues: February 2025

    February Topic Our main focus is rightly on our students. But the people doing the work of teaching matter, and there is an important overlap between what’s best for our students and what’s best for faculty. Join us for a conversation about supporting new(ish) faculty, where we will share examples of multi-faceted initiatives at Minneapolis... Continue Reading →

    Free

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