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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Teaching with H5P Series (February 2025)
Teaching with H5P Series 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,... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: February 2025
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the February 2025 release (version 20.25.02) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, February 20. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
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Making Zoom Sessions More Accessible and Inclusive (Spring 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... Continue Reading →
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Agency in Action: Inside and Outside the Classroom: Session Two
Minnesota State is filled with incredible faculty who are doing amazing work focused on their teaching craft. The purpose of the Network for Educational Development (NED) Excellence in Teaching Series... 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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OER Community Conversations: February
Description This session, Fran will be sharing OER-related projects that she is involved with at the system office, including the Open Textbooks Pilot project and the Zero-Textbook Cost Transfer Pathways (Z-TP) initiative. She will also touch on the importance of collaboration and the need for developing OER that is accessible, culturally responsive, and rooted in... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop: Part 3 (February 2025)
February 20, 2025 4-Part Virtual Series Workshop registration is full, join the waiting list to be notified of open spots. This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying... Continue Reading →
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Beyond the Classroom – Defining Co-Curricular Assessment (Spring 2025)
Co-Curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. In this webinar, we'll discuss perspectives on defining what co-curricular assessment... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues: February 2025
February Topic Our main focus is rightly on our students. But the people doing the work of teaching matter, and there is an important overlap between what’s best for our... Continue Reading →
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Educational Developer Meeting (February 2025)
An open invitation for self-identified Educational Developers on campuses. Educational Developers are individuals on campus who identify, coordinate, lead, and/or facilitate educational development opportunities on campus that support teaching and learning. At these Educational Developer meetings, engage in the community by networking with peers, resource sharing, engaging in meaningful conversations, and learning how NED resources... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop: Part 4 (February 2025)
February 27, 2025 4-Part Virtual Series Workshop registration is full, join the waiting list to be notified of open spots. This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying... Continue Reading →
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Exploring Credit for Prior Learning and Veteran Students (Spring 2025)
This session will provide faculty, staff, and administrators with the tools and knowledge to effectively evaluate and award academic credit for military courses and occupations, utilizing the American Council on Education (ACE) credit recommendations. Participants will explore ACE’s historical role in recognizing military learning and examine how its recommendations have evolved to address the changing... Continue Reading →
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