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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Discussion Boards: Integrating Choices for Modality (Summer 2026)
Discussion boards for online classes can be a powerful modality for students to strengthen critical thinking, engage in collaboration, and share different and common ideas regarding the course content. Despite the benefits of discussion boards, instructors must enhance and adjust discussion boards to ensure students not only self-evaluate and take an approach in cultural humility,... Continue Reading →
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Simplify Office Hours with Microsoft Booking (Summer 2026)
Learn how to use Microsoft Bookings to simplify how students can schedule time for your office hours. Through a guided, step-by-step demonstration, you’ll discover how to create a personal scheduling page, set availability, and share booking links with students in your D2L course—reducing endless emails. Accommodations The NED is committed to providing universal access to all... Continue Reading →
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UDL and Continuous Improvement (Summer 2026)
This webinar will introduce Universal Design for Learning as a foundation for making simple changes to your course design. The emphasis will be on brainstorming and working through some ideas for changes you might make almost immediately – perhaps you already have some in mind that you want to share with others and refine. After... Continue Reading →
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Designing Courses for Sustainability and Accessibility (Summer 2026)
This is the third webinar in a three-part series on course design using the New Content Experience (NCE) in D2L Brightspace. The session focuses on how to design effective, future-ready courses using NCE, with an emphasis on sustainability and accessibility. Participants will learn how modular organization, consistent layouts, and streamlined navigation support long-term course maintenance.... Continue Reading →
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Equity and Technology (Summer 2026)
July 6 - 26, 2026 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... Continue Reading →
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Accessible PDFs: When to Fix, Replace, or Rethink (Summer 2026)
PDFs are common in online courses, but they can also create significant accessibility barriers. This session will focus on practical decision-making: when to remediate a PDF, when to return to... Continue Reading →
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Teaching with AI Course (Summer 2026)
July 13 - August 2, 2026 Short Course This hands-on introductory workshop provides time and space for applying AI in your teaching context. Participants will collectively explore generative AI tools... Continue Reading →
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Teaching and Learning Competency and the NED – Deans, HR, and Administrators (Summer 2026, Option 2)
In this webinar, we will introduce the new course provider for the MSCF Teaching & Learning Competency, the Network for Educational Development (NED). This session is designed for Deans, Human Resources professionals, and Administrators. During the webinar, you will: Learn about the course provider for the Teaching & Learning Competency. Discover the courses offered by... Continue Reading →
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Creating Instructional Materials with AI: From Static Artifacts to Interactive Agents (Summer 2026)
This is part of a 2026 webinar series on Teaching with AI. Register for the full series. This 75 minute workshop is divided into two halves. In the first half, participants learn to prompt for the creation of traditional materials (e.g., study guides, case studies, or rubrics). In the second half, these materials are transformed... Continue Reading →
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Disability Justice II (Summer 2026)
July 20 - August 9, 2026 Short Course Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice Description In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown,... Continue Reading →
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Beyond “Allowed or Not”: Building Practical AI Literacy in the Classroom (Summer 2026)
This interactive webinar invites faculty to move beyond simple “allowed or not allowed” conversations about generative AI and toward practical, learning-centered guidance for students. Participants will practice evaluating AI-generated outputs and consider how clear expectations can help students use AI responsibly, ethically, and purposefully. Through brief examples, discussion, and a hands-on design activity, participants will... Continue Reading →
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From Historical Exclusion to Present-Day Barriers: Disability Justice, Race, and Higher Education (Summer 2026)
This webinar will examine how our own historical beliefs, institutional practices, built environments, academic policies, and cultural assumptions continue to shape barriers for disabled Black, brown, Indigenous, and people of color... Continue Reading →
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