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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Empowering Success: Practical Accessibility Strategies to Enhance Learning and Work Environments (Fall 2025)
This webinar explores foundational technical techniques for embedding accessibility into learning experience design and will demonstrate how small, intentional changes can create more inclusive and effective materials. Participants will gain practical skills to improve access and usability in both educational and workplace settings including the physical, digital, communication, and participation areas. Accommodations The NED is committed... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series (October 2025)
Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series Featuring: Dane Seelen (Computer Science, Central Lakes College) The Teaching with AI: Show and Tell Series explores AI and equitable teaching. In each 30-minute session a featured colleague shares how they’re using AI in their teaching. You’ll see a real example in action and hear how it supports student... Continue Reading →
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Build Your RAFT: AI Prompt Engineering for Educators
Ready to explore how AI prompt engineering can enhance teaching and learning? In this interactive session, we’ll introduce RAFT, a flexible prompt engineering framework that supports thoughtful engagement with AI. You’ll learn how to craft more effective prompts, understand what AI agents are (and aren’t) good for, and explore how to use them as thought... Continue Reading →
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Reflecting on and Revising Course Design (Fall 2025)
In this webinar, Shannon Gibney, one of the facilitators of the short course "Designing Your Course for Student Learning," will explore strategies for reflecting on what's working and what could be working better in your course, and how to apply these reflections to revise your course design. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access... Continue Reading →
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Working with Pressbooks: Discovery, Imagining, Refining (Summer 2025)
This webinar will introduce you to Pressbooks, a publishing software available in both a free and professional form to residents of Minnesota. Whether you are looking for a place to... Continue Reading →
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Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery (Fall 2025)
October 27 - November 16, 2025 Short Course Description Pressbooks is an online platform designed to encourage self-publication under a Creative Commons license. It is easy to use and provides... Continue Reading →
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Time is an Issue: Accessible Materials and Where to Find Them (Summer 2025)
Most of us would like to have our materials accessible and ready to go, but simply lack time, and need some help. If you could find already captioned, already screen reader-friendly materials that you could use--you would sure look at them, right? This is an overview of some excellent resources that would come to you... Continue Reading →
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Conversations with Colleagues (October 2025)
Helping Students Navigate Educational Technology Are your students struggling to keep up with the educational technology you or campus faculty are integrating into their courses? Join us for the next... Continue Reading →
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Educational Developers Connect (Fall 2025)
As campus educational developers, our roles may include a variety of activities: Facilitating conversations about teaching, supporting course design, academic technology, and equitable pratice, coordinating or providing professional development,... Continue Reading →
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Using Strategies from Success Coaching to Support Equitable Advising (Fall 2025)
In our effort to support a diverse population of students, transactional forms of advising—those strictly limited to course selection—should be interrogated and revised where possible. A fruitful area that can offer strategies is academic success coaching, which focuses on holistic, ongoing support of students centered around the concept of goal setting and personal development. Yet... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Workshop (November 2025)
November 3 - 23, 2025 Short Course Note: Registration is now at maximum capacity (10/22/2025) 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 AI tools, and applies equitable teaching practices.... Continue Reading →
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Hacking Your Course Assessments (Fall 2025)
November 3 - 23, 2025 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 in your course and assure they effectively and equitably measure student achievement. Key topics include: Selecting assessments that align with learning objectives Applying equitable practices to... Continue Reading →
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