NED Events Calendar

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.

Summer 2026  |  NED Course Catalog  |  NED Resource Site

  • Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning

    Online

    What is humanizing? How can we infuse our courses with empathy through humanizing strategies? During this webinar, we'll have an opportunity to explore practical ideas for humanizing your course, with... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • D2L: Improving Instructor-to-Student Interaction

    Online

    February 13 - March 5, 2023 Short Course Description By the end of this three week short course, you will be able to use D2L Brightspace tools (including Content, HTML Editor, and Release Conditions) to improve the instructor-to-student interaction. You will be provided with efficient ways to create and add existing content materials in the... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Classroom Inquiry and IRB

    Online

    February 13 – March 5, 2023 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of equity and ethics. In doing so, participants will review what counts as valid and reliable data and two major approaches to make sense of different... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Empathy, Compassion, and Rigor

    Online

    What's the difference between empathy and compassion? How can we balance compassion and academic rigor? During this webinar, we'll have an opportunity to explore ideas discuss how to balance flexible,... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Equity 101

    Online

    February 21 - April 2, 2023 Short Course Description This six week short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Conversations with Colleagues: February

    Online

    Topic: Accessible and Inclusive Event Planning Want to transform your meetings and events? Fully inclusive meetings and events consider all people -  placing access and inclusion on the forefront of... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • D2L: Create assignments

    Online

    There are multiple options for collecting student work for assessment. The Assignments tool in D2L Brightspace offers a single location for different types of assessment, including traditional file submissions, media... Continue Reading →

    Free

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