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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Foundations of Teaching Online (Summer 2026)
June 1 - August 2, 2026 (No class/Break: June 29 - July 5, 2026) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences... Continue Reading →
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Foundations of Teaching Online for Deans (Summer 2026)
June 1 - August 2, 2026 (No class/Break: June 29 - July 5, 2026) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences... Continue Reading →
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Collecting and Analyzing Classroom Data (Summer 2026)
June 1 - June 21, 2026 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature... Continue Reading →
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Making Zoom Sessions More Accessible and Inclusive (Summer 2026)
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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Build Your Course Essentials (Summer 2026)
June 8 - 28, 2026 Short Course In this three-week short course you will learn essential strategies for building an effective course with technology (D2L Brightspace). Each module includes two... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Course Documents (Summer 2026)
June 15 - July 5, 2026 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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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: June 2026
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the June 2026 release (version 20.26.06) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, June 18. Accommodations The NED is... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency: Weeklong Intensive (Summer 2026)
Dates June 22 to June 26, 2026 In-Person: Note, you must attend the full week Location: Central Lakes College Brainerd, MN This weeklong intensive course fulfills, in part, the Teaching... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Technology (Summer 2026)
July 6 - 26, 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... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Course (Summer 2026)
July 13 - August 2, 2026 Short Course This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants will collectively explore generative AI tools... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice II (Summer 2026)
July 20 - August 9, 2026 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown,... Continue Reading →
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Equity 101 (Summer 2026)
July 27 - August 16, 2026 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we... Continue Reading →
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