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.
Spring 2026 | Summer 2026 | NED Course Catalog | NED Resource Site
Events
Calendar of Events
|
Monday
|
Tuesday
|
Wednesday
|
Thursday
|
Friday
|
Saturday
|
Sunday
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
0 events,
|
2 events,
May 28 - June 16 Short Course Description Not only can improving online assessments more accurately capture what students know, but it can also increase learning, deter student cheating, and save you time over the long term. In this short course, you’ll examine and apply principles of validity & reliability and writing effective quiz and... Continue Reading →
Free
-
This webinar will present an overview qualitative and quantitative data and how to use data to answer Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) questions. This is the webinar associated with... Continue Reading →
Free
|
3 events,
May 29 - June 16, 2024 Short Course Description Whether you are new to online teaching and learning or an experienced user of D2L Brightspace, you can use the pre-formatted HTML Templates and Course Template as starting points when designing a new course or re-designing an existing course. The templates provide you with example materials... Continue Reading →
Free
-
Description To better grasp what disability justice is, we’ll cover critical moments in disability history that everyone should know. We’ll examine how the past persists in current policies and attitudes... Continue Reading →
Free
-
This webinar explores the critical relationship between learning outcomes and assessments. Participants will learn to design assessment tools that accurately reflect and measure the educational objectives, ensuring that what is taught aligns with what is assessed. Learning Outcomes: Understand the principles and importance of aligning assessments with learning outcomes. Apply techniques to develop assessments that... Continue Reading →
Free
|
1 event,
-
The Media Library tool offers a simplified method for creating and storing video and audio recordings directly in your D2L course. Media Library includes a Record Video feature, and an... Continue Reading →
Free
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
3 events,
June 3 - June 23, 2024 Short Course Description Participants will review Scholarship of Teaching (SoTL) premises to generate an inquiry question and a study outline grounded by consideration of equity and ethics. In doing so, participants will review what counts as valid and reliable data and two major approaches to make sense of different... Continue Reading →
Free
June 3 – August 4, 2024 (Break 7/1 – 7/7) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences for their students, and deans evaluate online experiences from a student perspective. Participants will learn about quality standards in online course design and the basic principles of backwards design... Continue Reading →
Free
June 3 – August 4, 2024 (Break 7/1 – 7/7) Long Course The Foundations of Teaching Online long course will help faculty build well-designed online experiences for their students, and deans evaluate online experiences from a student perspective. Participants will learn about quality standards in online course design and the basic principles of backwards design... Continue Reading →
Free
|
1 event,
-
Professional fluency is a concept we’ve been consciously working on at Lake Superior College in one form or another since 2014. As we have emerged from the pandemic, we are... Continue Reading →
Free
|
2 events,
-
Description We will discuss the compound impact of intersections between racism and ableism within US society and why this intersect is so rarely discussed in social justice. We’ll hear from... Continue Reading →
Free
-
Dive into the backward design framework to strategically plan curriculum that starts with the end goals in sight. This webinar guides educators through the process of defining clear objectives, determining... Continue Reading →
Free
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
2 events,
June 10 - June 30, 2024 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 practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). In this introductory course, we’ll have... Continue Reading →
Free
June 10 - June 30, 2024 Short Course Description You may have used Kaltura MediaSpace as the quickest way to record your screen for a lecture, or as a place to store your recordings. You may have used Zoom as the quickest way to record a lecture or try to replicate a synchronous discussion. Now is the time to... Continue Reading →
Free
|
0 events,
|
1 event,
-
Description People often talk about disability in outdated ways because they have never had to question it. Such ableist language, however, is rooted in the ongoing trauma experienced by many... Continue Reading →
Free
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
1 event,
-
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the June 2024 release (version 20.24.06) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, June 20. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
Free
|
1 event,
-
The course syllabus is, as William Germano and Kit Nicholls note in their subtitle of their 2020 book Syllabus, “The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything.” So, it’s the summer,... Continue Reading →
Free
|
0 events,
|
1 event,
-
Description This workshop aims to teach the audience about the richness and variety in the lived disability experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities (and of their families). We will... Continue Reading →
Free
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
3 events,
-
Description This practical workshop will introduce innovative approaches and tools, such as person-centered thinking and human-centered design, that can be used to improve access and meaningful inclusion of people with... Continue Reading →
Free
-
The Assignments folder in D2L is the place where students can turn in written work, most commonly essays. In this interactive webinar, we’ll look at the Assignments tool and the... Continue Reading →
Free
-
This webinar will demonstration how to check (and fix!) the accessibility of your HTML Content pages in D2L Brightspace. While the pre-formatted HTML templates provide a starting point for creating... Continue Reading →
Free
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
