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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NED Fall 2025
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September 29 - October 19, 2025 Short Course Description This asynchronous 3-week course is offered for the purpose of providing both academic and faculty advisors with the information and resources necessary to increase equity and inclusion in their work. Participants will engage in a series of activities including, but not limited to discussion, case study... Continue Reading →
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Date October 3, 2025 In-Person Workshop Location: Minnesota State System Office (St. Paul, MN) This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants... Continue Reading →
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October 6 - 26, 2025 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 the... Continue Reading →
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Many people struggle with procrastination: putting off the things we need to do, knowing fully the consequences of doing so, yet avoiding getting started anyway. We’ll start our time together... Continue Reading →
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Dates Oct 11 - 12, 2025 In-Person In-Person: Note, you must attend both weekends in the same semester Location: South Metro, 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 is... Continue Reading →
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October 13 - November 2, 2025 Short Course Description Co-curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. This 3-week course will provide participants with strategies and resources for implementing and strengthening co-curricular assessment in departments and functional areas with a unit-level focus. The course... Continue Reading →
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In this webinar, Shannon Gibney, one of the facilitators of the NED course, "Designing Your Course for Student Learning," will take you through the elements of designing course maps: Backward... Continue Reading →
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October 20 - November 9, 2025 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... Continue Reading →
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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 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... Continue Reading →
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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 a variety of options for including media such as images and videos. This short course will introduce you to the platform, walk you through creating... Continue Reading →
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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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