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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Getting Everyone Access: Why Are We Needing This? (Webinar)
OnlineDescription This webinar offers a look at what using a screen reader looks like, and how in our digital world, which includes many more of us than it did 3 months ago, we need to assist all our students in gaining access to our materials. More people need tools to assist in accessing our work... Continue Reading →
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Five Ways to Humanize Your Online Course – Option 1 (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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MN REFLECT Applications Due (Learning Community)
MN REFLECT Applications Due - Extended deadline: June 6, 2020* The MN REFLECT program brings together faculty from across disciplines, institutions, and experience to participate in a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) faculty learning community. Minnesota State REFLECT scholars will be supported as they develop, implement, and present research results at a conference or... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning (3 week short course)
OnlineJune 8 – June 28 Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate student achievement... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom June 8 – June 28 Description This spring, you may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of this three-week course... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online (Long course)
OnlineJune 8 - August 9, 2020 Break from July 4 - July 12 Course Learning Objectives Construct a course schedule, template, or outline that includes at least one learning objective for each module for your course. Create an alignment map with your learning objective(s), assessment tool, learning activities, and materials. Develop one assessment tool that... Continue Reading →
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Locating and Using OER and Library Resources (Webinar) – Option 1
OnlineDescription Are you interested in learning more about library and OER resources to incorporate into your classes this fall? In this webinar, learn from teaching faculty and librarians about how they have been able to access and incorporate these resources as well as hear suggestions on how you might be able to do the same. RSVP Required... Continue Reading →
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What’s a Humanized Online Course? Option 1 (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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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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