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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Events
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Accessibility Remediation Sprints: Creating Accessible Document Files 3 (Spring 2026)
Join us as we review an accessibility report for a document file. We’ll identify criteria in an accessibility report that commonly passes and fails and provides participants with guidance on how to make basic changes to their content that address these accessibility standards. Although the facilitator will be unable to provide one-on-one assistance to all... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Remediation Sprints: Creating Accessible PDF Files 3 (Spring 2026)
Join us as we review an accessibility report for a PDF file. We’ll identify criteria in an accessibility report that commonly passes and fails and provides participants with guidance on how to make basic changes to their content that address these accessibility standards. Although the facilitator will be unable to provide one-on-one assistance to all... Continue Reading →
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UDL Strategies You Can Use Tomorrow (Spring 2026)
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for creating learning experiences that welcome student variability, reduce barriers, and support more equitable outcomes. In this fast paced, practical session, participants will explore the core UDL principles — multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression — and discover simple strategies they can begin using immediately in... Continue Reading →
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Digital Media Accessibility Using the Quality Matters Rubric (Spring 2026)
This one‑hour online workshop introduces faculty and instructional staff to essential practices for creating accessible digital media aligned with the Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric, with a focus on General Standard 8: Accessibility and Usability. Participants explore practical techniques for ensuring that images, documents, videos, and course interfaces support equitable access for all learners. The... Continue Reading →
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The Humanities and AI Prompting – What’s the Connection?? (Spring 2026)
In this webinar, we will explore "narrative prompting" as executable computer code. Because the basic concept of "prompt engineering" can only take us so far in understanding the human role in AI prompting, we can look to the Humanities to teach us the logic of language and its possible use as an ethical and effective... Continue Reading →
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Strengths-Based Advising (Spring 2026)
A subtle but pernicious challenge to students from marginalized populations navigating higher education is the presence of deficit thinking in implicit and explicit forms. Advising, as a primary and ongoing site of personal and academic discovery for students, can be one location where deficit framing has the greatest impact. As advisors, the way we speak... Continue Reading →
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Using arts literacy activities to build empathy in the classroom (Spring 2026)
From Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) games to poetry prompts to literacy autobiographies — arts literacy activities can help students learn course materials and identify with their peers. They're also just plain fun! A longtime English educator who uses arts literacy activities successfully in all of her classes will share them with you.... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Technology (Spring 2026)
March 16 - April 5, 2026 Short Course Description Learn to apply an equity lens to your teaching with technology. This course is an introduction to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as an equity framework. Explore ways to design courses that address access, accessibility, as well as equitable learning outcomes. In this... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: March 2026
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the March 2026 release (version 20.26.03) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, March 19. 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 you can fully... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with H5P Series (March 2026)
Teaching with H5P Series Featuring: Paula Croonquist (Biology, Anoka-Ramsey Community College) What is H5P? H5P is a tool for creating interactive online learning content and activities. There are many interactive types: practice questions, drag and drop, image hotspot, timeline, virtual tour, branching scenario, and more. The Teaching with H5P Series explores equitable teaching methods and H5P. ... Continue Reading →
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Improving Student Learning with Retrieval Strategies (Spring 2026)
As faculty, we play a critical role not only in delivering course content but also in supporting students in transferring that knowledge into long-term memory. This webinar will explore a three-stage model of learning—encoding, storage, and retrieval—based on the work of Agarwal and Bain (2019). Special emphasis will be placed on the retrieval stage, where... Continue Reading →
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Using Strategies from Success Coaching to Support Equitable Advising (Spring 2026)
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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