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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Creating an Accessibility Strategy for Your Online Courses (Fall 2025)
As faculty prepare their online courses for the upcoming semester, ensuring accessibility is not just a legal requirement—it’s a commitment to inclusive education. This one-hour session will guide instructors through the process of developing a practical and sustainable accessibility strategy tailored to their course design. Participants will explore key principles, tools, and workflows that support... Continue Reading →
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Accessible Course Documents (Fall 2025)
August 25 - September 14, 2025 Short Course Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course will introduce participants to basic techniques for using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint. Additionally,... Continue Reading →
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Regular and Substantive Interaction (Fall 2025)
September 2 - 21, 2025 Short Course Description Enhance your teaching toolkit with this 3-week course focused on regular and substantive interaction (What is regular and substantive interaction?). You'll apply equitable practices and technology tools to support student-instructor interaction. Whether you teach online, or you’d like to bring more interaction into your in-person courses, this... Continue Reading →
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The Importance of Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom (Fall 2025)
You can leverage the power of instructor presence to strengthen relationships with students and enhance communication and engagement in your online courses. The efforts that we make to connect with our students in our online courses can increase student success. In addition, instructor presence in online courses is also central to a set of federal... Continue Reading →
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Teaching By Name: Tools for Student Empowerment
When we ask, “What’s in a name?” in the teaching and learning context, the answer is simple: everything. We know instinctively as teachers that remembering student names is an important part of creating a lively and engaging classroom environment. It’s also important that we get those names right and encourage students to learn each other's... Continue Reading →
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How to be Happy: Building Community in your First Year
Education Developers Connect is an opportunity for educational developers at various Minnesota State System institutions to come together and collaborate on building shared knowledge and resources on teaching and learning and providing support for faculty. In Spring 2025, educational developers across Minn State collaborated on creating educational development resources on different substantive areas for new... Continue Reading →
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Designing Your Course for Student Learning (Fall 2025)
September 8 - 28, 2025 Short Course Description In this course, we will review and enhance the design of your course to support student learning. We will focus on the key strategy of alignment. Alignment ensures that course content, activities, and assessments are directly connected to the learning objectives. This approach assures that students have... Continue Reading →
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NED Partnership: Accessibility Core Competencies – IAAP Cohort (Fall 2025)
What’s this about? As a Minnesota State faculty or staff member, you get a free membership to the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). This includes access to the Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) prep course. You don’t need to take the CPACC exam to benefit from this course. It’s a great way... Continue Reading →
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Say Hi to AI: Getting Started with Copilot (September 2025)
Say Hi to AI: Getting Started with Copilot Join us for a short, 30-minute session to learn about Microsoft Copilot—an AI tool available to everyone at Minnesota State. You’ll get a quick overview of how Copilot can help you work smarter. We’ll show you how to sign in with your StarID, give tips for writing... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency: Two Weekend Hybrid (Weekend 1, Fall 2025)
Dates Sept 13 - 14, 2025 In-Person: Note, you must attend both weekends in the same semester Location: Hilton Garden Inn Eagan, MN This two weekend hybrid course fulfills, in part, the Teaching and Learning Competency requirements. The requirements apply to Minnesota State college faculty completing the System Procedure 3.32.1, Part 8. Each hybrid intensive... Continue Reading →
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Self-Inquiry and Inclusive Teaching FLC (Fall 2025)
September 15 - November 9, 2025 Faculty Learning Community Description In this course, faculty will come together in community to explore culturally responsive teaching practices. CRP is grounded in evidence-based strategies that: Draw on the knowledge and skill our students bring to the classroom, Create supportive relationships that allow students to take learning risks, and... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with H5P Series (September 2025)
Teaching with H5P Series Featuring: Emily Houghton (Sports Management, Minnesota State University, Mankato) 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 accessible and equitable... Continue Reading →
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