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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Events
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Collaborate + Create: AI Agent in a Day Workshop (Fall 2026)
October 23, 2026 In-Person Workshop Location: Minnesota State System Office (St. Paul, MN) Join us for a one-day, in-person workshop (8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.) at the Minnesota State system office in... Continue Reading →
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AI: Strategies for Instructors
Are you noticing changes in student engagement, wondering how AI is showing up in student work, or questioning whether your activities still align with course outcomes? In this practical session, a team of Minnesota State educators shares four concrete ways to use Microsoft Copilot to address these challenges while saving time and preserving academic rigor.... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Course (Fall 2026)
October 26 - November 15, 2026 Short Course 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, incorporates or resists generative AI tools, and applies equitable teaching practices. At the end... Continue Reading →
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OER Basics and Beyond (Fall 2026)
October 26 - November 15, 2026 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to help faculty understand, evaluate, and effectively integrate Open Educational Resources (OER) into their teaching... Continue Reading →
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy/Open Educational Pedagogy (Fall 2026)
Both Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality education. CRP advocates that education utilize student’s lived experience; OEP advocates that education empower students as partners in the creation of course materials and disciplinary knowledge. When we understand these as two... Continue Reading →
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Hacking Your Course Assessments (Fall 2026)
November 2 - 22, 2026 Short Course Description How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you will examine the assessments... Continue Reading →
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Filling Potholes: Creating Assessments that Matter
Creating a powerful learning experience that aligns with equitable teaching practices involves assuring students believe they matter: that they matter in the class community itself and that they are completing work that matters. In this webinar, participants will learn how mattering aligns with authentic assessment practices and the process for creating an authentic assessment. Outcomes... Continue Reading →
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AI: Humanizing the Thought Partner
AI: Humanizing the Thought Partner focuses on how instructors can help students use Copilot not as a shortcut, but as a critical companion that strengthens thinking, learning, and integrity. As AI tools become easier to access, students often default to asking for answers or full drafts—reducing productive struggle, originality, and meaningful engagement with ideas. In... Continue Reading →
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Classroom Reflection to Classroom Inquiry (Fall 2026)
November 9 - 29, 2026 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... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with H5P Series (November 2026)
Teaching with H5P Series Featuring: Chris Large (Information Technology, Anoka Technical) What is H5P? H5P is a tool for creating interactive online learning content and activities. There are many interactive types: practice questions, drag and drop, image hotspot, timeline, virtual tour, branching scenario, and more. The Teaching with H5P Series explores equitable teaching methods and H5P. ... Continue Reading →
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What’s New in D2L Brightspace: November 2026
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the November 2026 release (version 20.26.11) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, November 19. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we'd like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so you can fully... Continue Reading →
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Creating Instructional Materials with AI: From Static Artifacts to Interactive Agents (Fall 2026)
This is part of a 2026 webinar series on Teaching with AI. Register for the full series. This 75 minute workshop is divided into two halves. In the first half, participants learn to prompt for the creation of traditional materials (e.g., study guides, case studies, or rubrics). In the second half, these materials are transformed... Continue Reading →
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