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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Working with Pressbooks: Discovery, Imagining, Refining (Summer 2025)
This webinar will introduce you to Pressbooks, a publishing software available in both a free and professional form to residents of Minnesota. Whether you are looking for a place to create a simple module or an entire textbook, this is a user-friendly software for you. We will introduce the basic tools of Pressbooks, but in... Continue Reading →
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Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery (Fall 2025)
October 27 - November 16, 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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Time is an Issue: Accessible Materials and Where to Find Them (Summer 2025)
Most of us would like to have our materials accessible and ready to go, but simply lack time, and need some help. If you could find already captioned, already screen reader-friendly materials that you could use--you would sure look at them, right? This is an overview of some excellent resources that would come to you... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues (October 2025)
Helping Students Navigate Educational Technology Are your students struggling to keep up with the educational technology you or campus faculty are integrating into their courses? Join us for the next Conversations with Colleagues session focused on Helping Students Navigate Educational Technology. We’ll explore both the possibilities and barriers students face when using faculty-assigned and system-supported... Continue Reading →
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Educational Developers Connect (Fall 2025)
As campus educational developers, our roles may include a variety of activities: Facilitating conversations about teaching, supporting course design, academic technology, and equitable pratice, coordinating or providing professional development, leading professional development committees or centers for teaching and learning - and more! Are you a campus educational developer? Join us for an opportunity to... Continue Reading →
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Using Strategies from Success Coaching to Support Equitable Advising (Fall 2025)
In our effort to support a diverse population of students, transactional forms of advising—those strictly limited to course selection—should be interrogated and revised where possible. A fruitful area that can offer strategies is academic success coaching, which focuses on holistic, ongoing support of students centered around the concept of goal setting and personal development. Yet... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (November 2025)
November 3 - 23, 2025 Short Course Note: Registration is now at maximum capacity (10/22/2025) 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, explores AI tools, and applies equitable teaching practices.... Continue Reading →
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Hacking Your Course Assessments (Fall 2025)
November 3 - 23, 2025 Short Course Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you will examine the assessments in your course and assure they effectively and equitably measure student achievement. Key topics include: Selecting assessments that align with learning objectives Applying equitable practices to... Continue Reading →
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Co-Curricular Learning Outcome Taxonomies – Exploring Bloom’s and Fink’s (Fall 2025)
Many of us in the field of assessment are familiar with using Bloom's Taxonomy that focuses on cognitive and intellectual learning. Fink's Taxonomy, which focuses on how learning can inspire holistic change across multiple dimensions of one's life, can be particularly useful in co-curricular assessment. This webinar will explore the intersections of both taxonomies with... Continue Reading →
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Reframing Scholarship in the Classroom (Fall 2025)
This webinar is designed for instructors who are curious about SoTL but may be skeptical of its legitimacy, relevance, or practicality. We will unpack common myths about SoTL—from the belief that it’s not “real” research to concerns about its value in tenure and promotion. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of what SoTL is, why... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry (Fall 2025)
November 10 - 30, 2025 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for turning reflection into SoTL inquiry. Module 1 provides an overview of SoTL, including its history and process. Module 2 integrates participants’ reflection on teaching and learning... Continue Reading →
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Capturing Your Equity Work (Fall 2025)
In this session, we will discuss the different ways we strive to create equitable learning experiences for all our students. Generational differences, how different policies impact certain populations more than others, and even our own learning preferences all affect what happens in our classrooms. Let’s talk about the ways we can recognize the equity work... Continue Reading →
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