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.
Events
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2025 NED Teaching and Learning Conference
Save the Date! September 25-26, 2025 More information coming soon. MinnState.edu/NEDconference
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Strengths-Based Advising (Fall 2025)
A subtle but pernicious challenge to students from marginalized populations navigating higher education is the presence of deficit thinking in implicit and explicit forms. Advising, as a primary and ongoing site of personal and academic discovery for students, can be one location where deficit framing has the greatest impact. As advisors, the way we speak... Continue Reading →
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OER Unconference
OnlineOER Unconference Date: September 25, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. Location: Zoom This informal, collaborative event is open to anyone working with Affordable Course Resources, Open Educational Resources (OER), and No-Cost Library Materials. Come ready to share ideas, ask questions, and connect with others in the field! Agenda: State of OER AI & OER... Continue Reading →
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2025 NED Teaching and Learning Conference
Save the Date! September 25-26, 2025 More information coming soon. MinnState.edu/NEDconference
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Equity and Advising (Fall 2025)
September 29 - October 19, 2025 Short Course Description This asynchronous 3-week course is offered for the purpose of providing both academic and faculty advisors with the information and resources necessary to increase equity and inclusion in their work. Participants will engage in a series of activities including, but not limited to discussion, case study... Continue Reading →
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Beyond the Classroom: Defining Co-Curricular Assessment (Fall 2025)
Co-Curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. In this webinar, we'll discuss perspectives on defining what co-curricular assessment... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (October 2025)
Date October 3, 2025 In-Person Workshop Location: Minnesota State System Office (St. Paul, MN) This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants will collectively explore generative AI tools and (re-)design a learning activity or assessment that supports AI literacy, explores generative AI tools, and applies equitable teaching... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Fall 2025)
October 6 - 26, 2025 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... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice: from individual rights to collective power (Fall 2025)
Disability Justice is a framework that prioritizes disabled women, indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, gender-nonconforming and other historically excluded groups recognizing the political and social structures that work against... Continue Reading →
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Procrastination: Why Students (and We!) Do It, and How to Help (Fall 2025)
Many people struggle with procrastination: putting off the things we need to do, knowing fully the consequences of doing so, yet avoiding getting started anyway. We’ll start our time together... Continue Reading →
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OER Community Conversations: October 2025
"Bring Ideas to Life: Create, Animate, Express!" Stacey Van Gelderen DNP, MS, RNC-MNN, PHN Minnesota State University, Mankato School of Nursing Unleash your creativity in this hands-on workshop that introduces... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency: Two Weekend Hybrid (Weekend 2, Fall 2025)
Dates Oct 11 - 12, 2025 In-Person In-Person: Note, you must attend both weekends in the same semester Location: South Metro, MN This two weekend hybrid course fulfills, in part,... Continue Reading →
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