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

  • Humanizing Your Course – Section 1 (3 week short course)

    Online

    June 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 →

    Free
  • Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week short course)

    Online

    Aligning 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 →

    Free
  • Designing Your Course for Student Learning (3 week short course)

    Online

    July 6 – July 26 Description  This 3 week short course provides participants an opportunity to review the design of their course so that the assignments they have planned in a course are aligned with the learning objectives students are supposed to master.  Here is what participants will do in this course:  Apply Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to course module... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Improving Student-to-Content Interaction (3 week short course)

    Online

    Aligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools  July 6 – July 26  Description  The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways 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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Humanizing Your Course – Section 2 (3 week short course)

    Online

    July 13 – August 2  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... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Improving Online Assessments – Section 1 (3 week short course)

    Online

    Improving Online Assessments  July 13 – August 2  Description  Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you'll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz and test questions.... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Improving your Online Course via Quality Matters (2 week short course)

    Online

    July 13 – July 24  Description  The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan.  The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of... Continue Reading →

    Free

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