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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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (3 week short course)
OnlineJuly 6 – July 26 Description This 3 week short 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... Continue Reading →
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Improving Student-to-Content Interaction (3 week short course)
OnlineAligning Effective Instructional Strategies with Academic Technologies: Improving the Student-to-Content Interaction using D2L Brightspace Tools July 6 – July 26 Description The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to support student-to-content interaction in courses: Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed. Monitoring learning outcomes based on student interaction with content. Improving... Continue Reading →
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Kaltura MediaSpace Webinar: Using video to support learning strategies like retrieval practice and elaboration
OnlineDescription Video as often used as a method of delivering content in order to “get information into students’ heads.” There is no doubt that this form of instruction is critical to supporting student learning, but delivering content is not learning. To see student learning, we need to provide opportunities to “get information out of students’... Continue Reading →
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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 Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you reminder emails as the event date gets closer,... 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 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 scheduled... 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 time over the long term. In this short course, you'll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz and test questions.... 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 tool below to register. Reminders Coming: We use the email address you provided to send you reminder emails as the event date gets closer, but we suggest... 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 students and faculty about resources, research, citations, and digital literacy. This webinar will showcase librarian D2L work from across Minnesota State at various stages and 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 pandemic. Both CRP and TRP understand that when we are marginalized or overwhelmed, our learning capacity is severely compromised. Further, both advocate that we intentionally... 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 been separated from one another through physical distance came together online to share ideas and learn from one another. We would like to sustain this... Continue Reading →
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