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
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Empathy by Design: Zoom Meetings
OnlineHow can you design your next Zoom meeting to create a caring, compassionate, empathetic experience for your students? In this webinar, we will demonstrate and discuss leading, evidence-based practices for designing your next Zoom meeting to maximize your presence, empathy, and awareness of your student's needs. You won't need to become a different person or... Continue Reading →
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A framework for antiracist praxis: Summer 2022
OnlineThis webinar will introduce antiracist pedagogy and the continuous cycle of antiracist praxis. 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. Campuses may want to know if their faculty are using the educational... Continue Reading →
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Applying the D2L Course and Page Templates: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 11 - July 24, 2022 Short Course Description Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or an experienced user of D2L Brightspace, you can use the pre-formatted HTML Templates and Course Template as starting points when designing a new course or re-designing an existing course. The templates provide you with example materials... Continue Reading →
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Aligning Instructional Strategies with Kaltura MediaSpace: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 11 - July 31, 2022 Short Course Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. Now is the time to reflect and identify the instructional objective first and consider the best tool for the job. By the end... Continue Reading →
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Creative Commons Basics
OnlineAre you interested in sharing your work with the world as an open educational resource? Have you heard about Creative Commons licenses but want to learn more about how they supplement federal copyright law and allow you to manage your intellectual property? Established in 2001, Creative Commons helps educators address the restrictions of copyright law... Continue Reading →
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Introduction to Antiracist Pedagogy: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 18 - August 7, 2022 Short Course Course Learning Objectives Through engaging in the work of the training, faculty will be able to: Define antiracist pedagogy as an individual and community process, and why it is important Learn strategies for sustained critical self-reflection as a foundation for antiracism work Begin applying antiracist pedagogy to... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 18 - August 7, 2022 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) that will help participants establish a basis for turning reflection into SoTL inquiry. Module 1 provides an overview of SoTL, including its history and process. Module 2 integrates participants’ reflection on teaching and... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: July 2022 (20.22.07)
OnlineThis webinar will focus on new features and changes in the July 2022 release (version 20.22.07) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, July 21. 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... Continue Reading →
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Creating a Culturally Responsive Syllabus
OnlineThe course syllabus is, as William Germano and Kit Nicholls note in their subtitle of their 2020 book Syllabus, “The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything.” So, it’s the middle of the semester, but it’s never too soon to be thinking about how you might consider elements within the syllabus that can remove barriers to... Continue Reading →
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Empathy by Design: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course (This short course was previously titled Humanizing Your Online Course) 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... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2022
OnlineJuly 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course 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... Continue Reading →
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