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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Week of Events
Classroom Inquiry and IRB (Spring 2025)
Classroom Inquiry and IRB (Spring 2025)
February 17 - March 9, 2025 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 →
Monday, February 17, 2025
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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February 18, 2025 -Teaching with H5P Series (February 2025)
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February 18, 2025 -What’s New in D2L Brightspace: February 2025
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February 18, 2025 -Making Zoom Sessions More Accessible and Inclusive (Spring 2025)
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February 18, 2025 -Agency in Action: Inside and Outside the Classroom: Session Two
Teaching with H5P Series (February 2025)
Teaching with H5P Series 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 equitable teaching methods and H5P. What to expect? Each session will feature... Continue Reading →
What’s New in D2L Brightspace: February 2025
This webinar will focus on new features and changes in the February 2025 release (version 20.25.02) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, February 20. RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.... Continue Reading →
Making Zoom Sessions More Accessible and Inclusive (Spring 2025)
We might be used to using Zoom in our work, but not all of us, especially our students, are. In this session, we’ll look at Zoom reactions, annotations, and the whiteboard along with the benefits and barriers of those tools when meeting in Zoom. We’ll also talk about community agreements and how to create norms... Continue Reading →
Agency in Action: Inside and Outside the Classroom: Session Two
Minnesota State is filled with incredible faculty who are doing amazing work focused on their teaching craft. The purpose of the Network for Educational Development (NED) Excellence in Teaching Series is to continue honoring and showcasing the experience and expertise of the Board of Trustees (BOT) Awards for Excellence Educators of the Year through the... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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February 19, 2025 -PressbookEDU Office Hour
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February 19, 2025 -OER Community Conversations: February
PressbookEDU Office Hour
Pressbooks is an open-source book publishing tool that allows you to publish content to the web and in a variety of export formats from a single source. Pressbooks is used widely in OER programs for remixing, creating, and adopting open content, but it can also be used to make other materials like syllabi, dissertations or... Continue Reading →
OER Community Conversations: February
Description This session, Fran will be sharing OER-related projects that she is involved with at the system office, including the Open Textbooks Pilot project and the Zero-Textbook Cost Transfer Pathways (Z-TP) initiative. She will also touch on the importance of collaboration and the need for developing OER that is accessible, culturally responsive, and rooted in... Continue Reading →
Thursday, February 20, 2025
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February 20, 2025 -Teaching with AI Workshop: Part 3 (February 2025)
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February 20, 2025 -Beyond the Classroom – Defining Co-Curricular Assessment (Spring 2025)
Teaching with AI Workshop: Part 3 (February 2025)
February 20, 2025 4-Part Virtual Series Workshop registration is full, join the waiting list to be notified of open spots. 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, incorporates or... Continue Reading →
Beyond the Classroom – Defining Co-Curricular Assessment (Spring 2025)
Co-Curricular assessment of student learning continues to be a hot topic in the higher education assessment and accreditation landscape. In this webinar, we'll discuss perspectives on defining what co-curricular assessment means in the context of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and other professional organizations. Attendees will also have opportunities to share examples from their own... Continue Reading →
Friday, February 21, 2025
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