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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Exploring Flexible Course Delivery (Summer 2025)
May 15 - May 16 Apply by March 31 In-Person Workshop Location: System Office, St. Paul, MN This interactive 2-day workshop is designed to explore flexible course delivery. Participants will examine the benefits and challenges of various flexible delivery methods, including HyFlex, bi-modal, and tri-modal approaches. Attendees will also workshop equitable teaching, technology tools, and... Continue Reading →
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Making Zoom Sessions More Accessible and Inclusive (Summer 2025)
We might be used to using Zoom in our work, but not all of us, especially our students, are. In this session, we’ll look at Zoom reactions, annotations, and the whiteboard along with the benefits and barriers of those tools when meeting in Zoom. We’ll also talk about community agreements and how to create norms... Continue Reading →
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Hacking Your Course Assessments (Summer 2025)
May 19 - June 8, 2025 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →
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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 →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (May 2025)
Date May 23, 2025 In-Person Workshop Location: Winona State University This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants will collectively explore generative AI tools and (re-)design a learning activity or assessment that supports AI literacy, incorporates or resists generative AI tools, and applies equitable teaching practices. At... Continue Reading →
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Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery (Summer 2025)
May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license. It is easy to use and provides a variety of options for including media such as images and videos. This short course will introduce you to the platform, walk you through creating... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design (Summer 2025)
May 27 - June 15, 2025 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online (Summer 2025)
June 3 – August 4, 2024 (Break 7/1 – 7/7) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences for their students, and deans evaluate online experiences from a student perspective. Participants will learn about quality standards in online course design and the basic principles of backwards design... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online for Deans (Summer 2025)
June 2 – August 3, 2025 (Break 6/30 – 7/6) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences for their students, and deans evaluate online experiences from a student perspective. Participants will learn about quality standards in online course design and the basic principles of backwards design... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Documents in Microsoft Word: A Webinar for Beginners (Summer 2025)
Are you wondering how to get started on making documents accessible? This webinar will introduce the features in Microsoft Word that can help you make your documents usable by everyone. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we'd like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop: Part 1 (Summer 2025)
June 5, 2025 4-Part Virtual Series This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants will collectively explore generative AI tools and (re-)design a learning activity or assessment that supports AI literacy, incorporates or resists generative AI tools, and applies equitable teaching practices. At the end of the... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Course Documents (Summer 2025)
June 9 - June 29, 2025 Short Course Description This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course introduces participants to basic techniques and available in Microsoft Word. Additionally, participants will get an opportunity to update web pages posted to... Continue Reading →
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