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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Regular and Substantive Interaction (Fall 2025)
September 2 - 21, 2025 Short Course Description Enhance your teaching toolkit with this 3-week course focused on regular and substantive interaction (What is regular and substantive interaction?). You'll apply... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Fall 2025)
September 8 - 28, 2025 Short Course Description In this course, we will review and enhance the design of your course to support student learning. We will focus on the... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice I (Fall 2025)
September 22 - October 12, 2025 Short Course Description In this 3-week introduction to disability justice course, you will learn about disability justice, practice using inclusive language, and apply strategies... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Advising (Fall 2025)
September 29 - October 19, 2025 Short Course Description This asynchronous 3-week course is offered for the purpose of providing both academic and faculty advisors with the information and resources... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Fall 2025)
October 6 - 26, 2025 Short Course Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching... Continue Reading →
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Co-curricular Assessment (Fall 2025)
October 13 - November 2, 2025 Short Course Description Co-curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. This 3-week... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media (Fall 2025)
October 20 - November 9, 2025 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities,... 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... 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... 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... Continue Reading →
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Philosophy of Community and Technical College Education (Fall 2025)
Registration June 1 - Dec. 15 Course opens Aug. 1 You may register for this course at anytime within the registration dates listed below. Course Terms The following table illustrates... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Course Documents (Spring 2026)
January 19 - February 8, 2026 Short Course Description This three-week short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a... Continue Reading →
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