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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Automated Closed Captioning: When to Bot and When to Not (Webinar)
OnlineAutomated or machine-generated closed captioning is a game changer for media accessibility. Learn about the pros and cons of automated captioning and transcripts and how to best utilize this developing technology. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this... 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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Captioning Beyond Accommodation (Webinar)
OnlineDescription Learn about the myriad benefits closed captioning offers to all students and why it’s critical that captioning be made available for all course videos. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar. Data Use: Campuses want... Continue Reading →
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Is Time an Issue? Finding Accessible Materials
OnlineDescription You want to teach with accessible online materials, but don't really know where to look. Here's a chance to see some options, and to share with others something that you have found! There are some wonderful online materials out there. We will explore just a few, and give you ideas of where you might... Continue Reading →
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UDL: Quick Tips to Enhance Learning Experiences
OnlineDescription Design accessibility, access, and equity in your courses – Universal Design for Learning is a framework that can help us address every students’ unique learning needs! This webinar is... Continue Reading →
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Creating Accessible Course Documents: Fall 2021 (3 week short course)
OnlineOctober 25 - November 14, 2021 Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course will introduce participants to basic techniques for using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint. Additionally, participants will... Continue Reading →
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Universal Design for Learning: Quick Tips to Enhance Learning Experiences 2
OnlineDescription Design accessibility, access, and equity in your courses – Universal Design for Learning is a framework that can help us address every students’ unique learning needs! This webinar is an overview of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines plus some simple ways to apply UDL in your online teaching and learning experiences. Outcomes:... Continue Reading →
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Universal Design for Learning: Quick Tips to Enhance Learning Experiences – January 2022
OnlineDescription Design accessibility, access, and equity in your courses – Universal Design for Learning is a framework that can help us address every students’ unique learning needs! This webinar is... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice: Why It’s Everybody’s Business
OnlineDescription To better grasp what disability justice is, we’ll cover critical moments in disability history that everyone should know. We’ll examine how the past persists in current policies and attitudes... Continue Reading →
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Universal Design for Learning: Quick Tips to Enhance Learning Experiences – February 2022
OnlineDescription Design accessibility, access, and equity in your courses – Universal Design for Learning is a framework that can help us address every students’ unique learning needs! This webinar is an overview of the Universal Design for Learning guidelines plus some simple ways to apply UDL in your online teaching and learning experiences. Participants will... Continue Reading →
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Racial Justice and Disability Justice: Working Together to Free Our Minds and Bodies
OnlineDescription We will discuss the compound impact of intersections between racism and ableism within US society and why this intersect is so rarely discussed in social justice. We’ll hear from... Continue Reading →
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Automated Closed Captioning: When to Bot and When to Not
OnlineDescription Automated or machine-generated closed captioning is a game changer for media accessibility. Learn about the pros and cons of automated captioning and transcripts and how to best utilize this... Continue Reading →
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