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.
Fall 2026 | Spring 2027 | NED Course Catalog | NED Resource Site
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3 events,February 1 - April 25, 2021 Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the opportunity to examine... Continue Reading →
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Description The webinar is for people who are taking, or thinking of taking, the Minnesota State short course "Creating Accessible Course Documents," and functions as an introduction to this course. ... Continue Reading →
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Description The webinar will look at how to use Kaltura MediaSpace (or other video creation software) to assist in your teaching. Various kinds of videos can be used to add... Continue Reading →
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In collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and... Continue Reading →
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Rubrics in D2L Brightspace can be utilized as both a valuable evaluation tool and a meaningful communication tool. It saves faculty time evaluating and grading while providing quality and objective... Continue Reading →
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Spring 2021 Book Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. New this year - the first... Continue Reading →
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Description: In this webinar, host Karen Pikula will answer questions that were commonly asked in OEN Webinars, Koffee with Karen, and the OER Learning Circles. Time will be allotted toward... Continue Reading →
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2 events,February 8 - February 28, 2021 Description This three week short course provides faculty and staff and opportunity to practice make 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, participants will... Continue Reading →
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February 8 - April 11, 2021 Course Learning Objectives Construct a course schedule, template, or outline that includes at least one learning objective for each module for your course. Create an alignment map with your learning objective(s), assessment tool, learning activities, and materials. Develop one assessment tool that will measure or evaluate your intended learning... Continue Reading →
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Description Explore the versatility of the Assignments (formerly called Dropbox) tool in Brightspace. We'll walk through the various types of assignments that can be set up and managed, and show... Continue Reading →
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Learn how to make the most of Rubrics to engage learners in all stages of assignments and discussions from start to finish. This webinar builds on the "Rubrics for Beginners"... Continue Reading →
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June 2019, we set a critical goal: By 2030, Minnesota State will eliminate the educational equity gaps at every Minnesota State college and university. It is a staggeringly ambitious goal and one that will require both intentional systems and culture change and innovation as well as advocacy and leadership with partners and stakeholders across the... Continue Reading →
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Description Virtual spaces still provide opportunities to personalize and humanize the learning environment. When facilitating sessions outside of a traditional setting, we need to be aware of techniques to share... Continue Reading →
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Topic: Student-centered Learning Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) launched a peer cohort designed to increase student-centered teaching practices in the online, hybrid, and/or technology-rich classroom. Seventy-five faculty participants are engaging in... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will focus on new features and changes in version 20.21.02, the February release, that you’ll see in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, February 18. RSVP Required Use the... Continue Reading →
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In collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Educational Innovations unit within Academic and Student Affairs, three Equity and Inclusion Coordinators are assisting with aligning, developing, and... Continue Reading →
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Description Both Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can offer us insight and support as we shift to bring students quality and compassionate education during the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
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February 22 - March 7, 2021 Description The “Improving Your Online Course” workshop explores the QM Rubric and provides a framework to improve the quality of online courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan. The content is based on the essential Specific Review Standards... Continue Reading →
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February 22 - March 14, 2021 Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course design. The course is online and asynchronous. Although there are no... Continue Reading →
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Description This webinar will look at how to search for accessible materials, including links to options both within libraries and through the general internet. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool... Continue Reading →
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Make use of the groups tool in Brightspace to facilitate small group discussion and group projects for face-to-face or online courses. Discover various ways to leverage the tool to allow... Continue Reading →
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Topic: Equity and the Digital Divide: Student Access to Technology Join us for a thoughtful conversation with the Rochester Community and Technical College community. They will briefly talk about their... Continue Reading →
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