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
Equity and Technology (Spring 2025)
Equity and Technology (Spring 2025)
March 24 - April 13, 2025 Short Course Description Learn to apply an equity lens to your teaching with technology. This course is an introduction to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as an equity framework. Explore ways to design courses that address access, accessibility, as well as equitable learning outcomes. In this... Continue Reading →
A Formula for Teaching Math Corequisites (Spring 2025)
A Formula for Teaching Math Corequisites (Spring 2025)
Short Course March 24 – April 13, 2025 Registration Closes December 10 NED + Math Pathways The NED has partnered with Math Pathways staff to offer educational development opportunities tailored to support Minnesota State mathematics and statistics faculty. View the flyer. Description This short course is designed for educators seeking to enhance their teaching strategies... Continue Reading →
Minnesota State REFLECT 2025 Applications Due
Minnesota State REFLECT 2025 Applications Due
Faculty Learning Community 2025-2027 Cohort The Minnesota State REFLECT program brings together faculty from across disciplines, institutions, and experience to participate in a 2-year Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) faculty learning community. Minnesota State REFLECT scholars are supported as they develop, implement, and present research results at a conference. Participants will meet for a... Continue Reading →
Monday, March 24, 2025
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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March 25, 2025 -RSI 1: Regular and Substantive Interaction: Communication Strategies and Tools for the Online Classroom (Spring 2025)
RSI 1: Regular and Substantive Interaction: Communication Strategies and Tools for the Online Classroom (Spring 2025)
In our face to face classes we have relatively simple ways to regularly communicate with our students – we can greet them by name as they enter class, we can talk with them after class, we can make classroom announcements. All of this is possible in the online classroom as well, but to do this... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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March 26, 2025 -From the Margins: Session One (Spring 2025)
From the Margins: Session One (Spring 2025)
Examining Military Service From the Margins Veterans, active service members, and civilians are invited to contribute to the “Examining Military Service From the Margins” virtual discussion series. Facilitated by pairs of Discussion Leaders, each session will use guiding questions, and a set of core-shared resources like oral histories and films, to better understand how race,... Continue Reading →
Thursday, March 27, 2025
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March 27, 2025 -Exploration and Development of Non-Traditional Grading Methods: Session Two
Exploration and Development of Non-Traditional Grading Methods: 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 Awards for Excellence Educators of the Year through the opportunity... Continue Reading →
Friday, March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025 -Teaching with AI Workshop (March 2025)
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March 28, 2025 -OER Project Showcase: 1
Teaching with AI Workshop (March 2025)
Date March 28, 2025 (Registration is now closed) 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 will collectively explore generative AI tools and (re-)design a learning activity or assessment that supports AI literacy, incorporates or resists generative... Continue Reading →
OER Project Showcase: 1
Since 2018, Minnesota State faculty have been participating in the OER Learning Circles program, where they collaborate with colleagues from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around OER and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate course material costs for students. OER are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools,... Continue Reading →
