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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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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Teaching and Learning Competency: Weeklong Intensive (Summer 2026)
Dates June 22 to June 26, 2026 In-Person: You must attend all week, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday Location: Central Lakes College Brainerd, MN This weeklong intensive course fulfills, in part, the Teaching and Learning Competency requirements. The requirements apply to Minnesota State college faculty completing the System Procedure 3.32.1, Part 8.... 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 for Learning (UDL) as an equity framework. Explore ways to design courses that address access, accessibility, as well as equitable learning outcomes. In this course,... 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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Summer 2026: Philosophy of Community and Technical College Education
Registration Mar. 15 - July 30 Course opens May 15 Course Terms The following table illustrates course term and registration dates. They will occur the same dates each year. You... Continue Reading →
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Grade Smarter Not Harder (Summer 2026)
August 3 - 23, 2026 Short Course Description Improving your assessments can do more than just measure what students know. It can also boost learning and save you time in... Continue Reading →
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