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
Events
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Writing Good Questions for Assessments (Webinar) – Option 2
OnlineDescription Writing good assessment questions more accurately capture what students know. In this webinar, you’ll learn about principles of writing effective questions to create more reliable and valid tests. RSVP... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Course – Section 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 13 – August 2 Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested... Continue Reading →
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Improving Online Assessments – Section 1 (3 week short course)
OnlineImproving Online Assessments July 13 – August 2 Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you... Continue Reading →
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Improving your Online Course via Quality Matters (2 week short course)
OnlineJuly 13 – July 24 Description 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 own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards of... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in 20.20.07?
OnlineDescription This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.20.07, the July release that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, July 16. RSVP Required Use the RSVP... Continue Reading →
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Establishing a Library Presence in D2L (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Libraries can have a presence in D2L to meet a variety of needs such as access to additional library information, resources, and instruction as well as pre-built modules for... Continue Reading →
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CRP and Trauma Responsive Practices – Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Both Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP) and Trauma Responsive Practices (TRP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy – Section 2 (3 week short course)
OnlineCulturally Responsive Pedagogy July 20 – August 9 Description How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to address educational disparities and meet the goals of Equity 2030? One promising path is to ground our practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the opportunity to critically reflect on our equity gap data and examine... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues – July
OnlineDescription When colleagues readied themselves for emergency remote teaching this spring, we all received a powerful reminder in the value of social learning. Colleagues from across the system who had... Continue Reading →
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Integrating Opendora into Your Online Course (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Opendora (https://opendora.minnstate.edu/) is a publicly available digital archive for open educational resources (OER) that serves as a central repository for Minnesota State faculty and librarians to leverage licensed OER... Continue Reading →
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Improving Online Assessments – Section 2 (3 week short course)
Improving Online Assessments July 27 – August 16 Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you'll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz... Continue Reading →
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Grading Practices in Quizzes: Feedback and Data Analysis (Webinar)
OnlineDescription The Quizzes tool provides different methods of feedback when assessing students for an online exam. You can choose how to score quiz questions: automatically, manually, and/or with blind marking. We'll also include re-grading students if a question or response was confusing or incorrectly keyed. We'll also take a look at the available data analysis... Continue Reading →
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