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 | Summer 2026 | NED Course Catalog | NED Resource Site
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Increase Student Engagement with Discussion Boards
OnlineIn this webinar, you will be introduced to several, easy to implement discussion techniques that can be used to increase student engagement. You will be introduced a variety of different... Continue Reading →
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OER Librarian’s Workshop Day
Quarry Center 314 10th Ave. S., Waite Park, MN, United StatesRSVP Below by September 23rd Academic librarians are critical partners in efforts to provide open educational resources (OER) for students and faculty. Educational Innovations is happy to announce an opportunity for librarians and library staff from across Minnesota State to come together for a day to network with colleagues, learn more about OER efforts across... Continue Reading →
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Communicating with Students via Intelligent Agents
OnlineDescription What in the world is an Intelligent Agent? The Intelligent Agents tool in D2L Brightspace sends automated emails to students when they need a reminder to complete a specific... Continue Reading →
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Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) – Start 2 Weeks
OnlineDescription 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... Continue Reading →
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Encouraging Student-Teacher Communication Using Individual Discussions in D2L Brightspace
OnlineDescription With a few changes in your discussion settings, you can create private discussions in your D2L Brightspace course. In this private discussion space you can communicate with individual students... Continue Reading →
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Building Instructor Presence in Online and Blended Courses
OnlineCreating a sense of community and instructor presence is important in all courses. In an online or blended course, it can come with some challenges. This session will provide strategies... Continue Reading →
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Out from the Shadows Workshop Series: Homelessness
OnlineBackground Minnesota State Office of Equity and Inclusion, Minnesota State Educational Innovations, and Minneapolis College present Out from the Shadows Workshop Series. Out from the Shadows of Minneapolis: Power, Pride, and Perseverance at a Northern Community College is an open anthology of stories and memoirs written by students, staff, and faculty from Minneapolis College. They... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Start 3 Weeks)
OnlineDescription This 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 objectives Select assessment tools,... Continue Reading →
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Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support instructor-to-student interaction in courses. Maintaining instructor presence through regular communications (announcements, updates) and specific student-instructor interactions. Engaging in heightened monitoring of student progress throughout the first few weeks and actively communicating with students when they get behind or are having difficulty with... Continue Reading →
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Quick Eval Tool: Saving Time on Grading
OnlineDescription The Quick Eval tool in D2L Brightspace provides you a single location to view all unevaluated student submissions (Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes) from all your Brightspace courses. You can sort,... Continue Reading →
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Annotations in Assignment Submissions
OnlineDescription Using the Annotation tool n to D2L Brightspace , you can quickly complete your evaluation and feedback work directly from the Assignments tool, without the need to use any... Continue Reading →
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Virtual Reality Workshop @ St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud State University - ISELF 118 720 4th Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN, United StatesDon't miss out on this free opportunity for Minnesota State faculty, staff, and administrators to learn more about virtual reality and how you can use it in the classroom. Get an introduction to VR Learn about how VR is used in education Gain awareness of VR opportunities in Minnesota State Discover how to incorporate VR... Continue Reading →
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