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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Humanizing Plus: Principles to Enhance Online Teaching and Learning (Webinar)
OnlineParticipants will review the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework: social, cognitive, and teaching presence (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000), and consider specific strategies to create a more inclusive and equitable online course by focusing on four interwoven principles: trust, presence, awareness, and empathy. Participants will also have an opportunity to assess their current courses and practices and identify... Continue Reading →
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Six Ways to Improve Learning with Retrieval Practice: Option 2 (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Improve learning with retrieval practice teaching methods! Learn six practical strategies for your online courses that use retrieval to enhance academic achievement and long-term learning. Outcomes: Define retrieval practice in your own words. Articulate one benefit of retrieval for learning. Share at least one applied teaching strategy for incorporating retrieval in synchronous courses. Share... Continue Reading →
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Update on Guided Learning Pathways – Practice Alignment Assessment Results (Webinar)
OnlineApproved by the Minnesota State Board of Trustees in November 2020 after a three-year collaborative development process, the Minnesota State Guided Learning Pathways Framework (GLP Framework) is an enterprise-level student success strategy. Building on evidence from across the nation, the GLP Framework outlines characteristics of effective practices in supporting students throughout their educational journey with... Continue Reading →
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The Complicated History of Latinx/Latine Students and Schooling (Webinar)
OnlineDescription We will use empathy to understand the impact of the many conditions that have resulted in the miseducation of Latinx/Latine students. In addition, participants will learn about the multiple ways that the Latinx/Latine community has/continue to resist their unequal treatment and the resiliency that they have shown on the journey towards higher education. By... Continue Reading →
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Improving Your Online Course: Summer 2021 (2 week short course)
OnlineJuly 19 - August 1, 2021 Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the Quality Matters 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... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 19 - August 8, 2021 Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards that help... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 26 - August 15, 2021 Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this introductory course, we’ll have the opportunity to... Continue Reading →
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Humanizing Your Online Course 2: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 26 - August 15, 2021 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 applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no... Continue Reading →
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Integrating Retrieval Practice: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 26 - August 15, 2021 Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve through deliberate recall of skills and knowledge, spaced out over time, and reviewed along with other concepts. More than 100 years of educational research in both the... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Zoom: Summer 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineAugust 2 - August 22, 2021 Description You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end of this three-week course you will be able to identify and... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning for Manufacturing and Construction Faculty (3 week short course)
OnlineAugust 2 - August 22, 2021 Flyer Description Faculty members teaching within the discipline of manufacturing and/or construction are invited to join colleagues in this three-week short course to explore and apply different assessment methods to the courses you teach. How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? Examine... Continue Reading →
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Catch Up on What’s New in D2L Brightspace May – July 2021
OnlineDescription Get up to date on all the changes to D2L Brightspace that were implemented over the summer of 2021. This session will include updates that occurred from May 2021-July 2021. (The August update features will be covered in the "What's New" session on Monday, August 16). RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to... Continue Reading →
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