Welcome
The Provost’s Office and the MacPherson Institute are pleased to introduce a new virtual panel series called Teaching Remotely: Shared Experiences. This series will bring together faculty, instructors and staff from across McMaster to share their experiences in developing and contributing to remote teaching.
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Session 2: Engaging Students & Creating Online Community
July 9th, 2020
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Location: Microsoft Teams (link will be sent prior to event)
Learning isn’t just about the content, it’s also about the experience. That’s why it’s important to consider how your remote teaching will work to bring students together, create engagement and build an online community in your new virtual classroom.
Join us for the second virtual panel to learn about the ways in which faculty, instructors and staff have been able to successfully use methods, tools and resources to create engaged students and online communities in their remote teaching.
You will have an opportunity to learn from each speaker about their experience and to participate in a live Q&A.
Our panelists are:
- Amanda Montague: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
- Mark Busser: Academic and Experiential Learning Coordinator, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Katie Moisse: Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Sciences
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Sashaina Singh, Office of Community Engagement
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Giancarlo Da-Re and Fawziya Isah, MSU
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Session 1: Challenges, Failures and Successes
June 25, 2020
3:00pm – 4:30pm
The first panel session looked back at the hurdles, stumbles and triumphs experienced by teaching peers across campus during the spring/summer online transition.
The panelists for our first session were:
- Aadil Merali Juma, DeGroote School of Business
- Catherine Anderson, Department of Linguistics and Languages
- Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Silvie Tan Halim, W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology