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.

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  • Digging into Wise Feedback (Summer 2025)

    We know that we assess because we want to see what students are learning. Feedback on those assessments plays a critical role in learning. It can be an opportunity to reinforce ideas in the course content and assure students know they can meet expectations. Indicating whether something is correct or incorrect is only a start:... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Antiracist Practices for Search Committee Members (Summer 2025)

    This webinar provides an opportunity to discuss antiracist practices for search committee service. Part of academic equity work is to ensure that students can see themselves reflected in the faculty and staff within their college or university. As our student population becomes increasingly diverse, intentional efforts to increase the diversity of campus faculty and staff... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Application of Antiracist Pedagogy: Creating Community in the Classroom (Summer 2025)

    Building community in the classroom is an essential starting point for applying antiracist pedagogy. Join instructors of the Introduction to Antiracist Pedagogy short course in a discussion of community building, with added attention to challenges and opportunities in the online environment. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we'd... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Integrating Retrieval Practice (Summer 2025)

    July 7 - July 27, 2025 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve through deliberate recall of skills and knowledge, spaced out over time, and reviewed along with other concepts. More than 100 years of educational research in... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Collecting and Analyzing Classroom Data (Summer 2025)

    July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature review of the topic. From there, participants will explore evidence approaches (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods), select an appropriate tool from that evidence approach, determine... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity 101 (Summer 2025)

    July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect our values... Continue Reading →

    Free

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