Upcoming Events – MacPherson Institute

Partners in Learning: How the Student Success Centre Can Help Instructors

May 11, 2021
9:30AM to 10:30AM

You will learn how the Student Success Centre (SSC) can partner with you to support student learning inside and outside the classroom. This session will provide an overview of the SSC and highlight specific services and resources you can integrate or use to complement your teaching and curriculum development.

7 Core Skills of Accessibility

May 12, 2021
1:00PM to 2:30PM

Attendees will learn how to apply the 7 Core Skills of Digital Accessibility to the McMaster ecosystem, including Microsoft Office 365 products (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook). Time will be allocated for Question and Answer discussions and facilitate how to build an inclusive online community.

Creating Accessible Content in Avenue

May 12, 2021
10:00AM to 11:30AM

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) are the ISO-recognized criteria for creating accessible web content referenced in the AODA information and communications standard. In this workshop, we will review the guidelines relevant to the materials you teach with and discuss how to apply them to create more accessible course content.

TA Drop-In Session with an Educational Developer

May 12, 2021
10:00AM to 11:00AM

These sessions will be an opportunity for McMaster University Teaching Assistants to connect with Educational Development Fellows, and experienced peer Teaching Assistants, to ask any teaching- and learning-related questions they may have as they start their Winter term TA positions.

Building Empathy and Support for Greater Inclusion in Online Courses

May 12, 2021
1:00PM to 2:30PM

This webinar uses collaborative tasks to explore the values and motivations associated with inclusion and exclusion. It also asks participants to consider ways in which they might support people who want to be included in various situations.

Building a Data-Driven Organizational Culture

May 13, 2021
12:00PM to 1:00PM

This event is a part of a series of leadership talks from McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences Program for Faculty Development.

Course (re)Design Workshop

May 10, 2021 to May 13, 2021
10:00AM to 3:30PM

Back by popular demand, this workshop aims to engage and support faculty and instructional staff in the new design or redesign a course. The 3-day workshop includes facilitated sessions on course design topics, including constructive alignment, learning outcomes, and assessment.

What's this peerScholar all about?

May 13, 2021
3:00PM to 4:00PM

McMaster is piloting peerScholar, a formative peer-assessment technology that can supercharge your activities, deepening the content learning they provide while also giving students exercise using core skills of success like critical thought, creative thought, effective two way communication and metacognitive awareness.

TA Drop-In Session with an Educational Developer

May 14, 2021
10:00AM to 11:00AM

Improving the Usability of Your Avenue Course

May 17, 2021
10:00AM to 11:30AM

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn and apply techniques to improve the usability of your Avenue course.

LinkedIn Learning as a Teaching Resource

May 17, 2021
12:00PM to 1:00PM

LinkedIn Learning is an online platform that offers more than 15,000 modules. Current faculty/instructors, staff and students have access to LiL. Come learn more about how to support student learning using LinkedIn Learning (LiL)

Introduction to H5P Workshop

May 17, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

Interested in learning how to use H5P to create an OER for your course? Participate in this hands-on introduction workshop, where you will learn about what H5P is and the content types available.

Pivoting and Changing your Research Program and Scholarly Identity

May 18, 2021
12:00PM to 1:00PM

This event is a part of a series of leadership talks from McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences Program for Faculty Development.

AI-Enhanced Discovery Tools to Help You Stay Current: Leveraging Scitrus and Meta

May 18, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

This practical session will orient you to two cutting-edge currency awareness tools that leverage artificial intelligence to customize your feed according to your research interests.

PressBooks 101: Learn how to Create, Adapt & Publish Open Content

May 19, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

Looking to create and self-publish web-hosted content in an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, accessibility and flexibility with publishing formats? PressBooks may be right for you!

Library Resources Update: One Year into the Virtual University

May 19, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

The presenters will take you behind the curtain to talk about your information needs, and how the library can respond.

Applying Universal Design for Learning Guidelines in Avenue

May 19, 2021
10:00AM to 11:30AM

Put universal design for learning (UDL) principles into practice! In this workshop, we provide an overview of CAST’s UDL guidelines and demonstrate examples of how to implement them in Avenue in the design of content, activities and assessments.

Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Symposium

May 20, 2021
8:00AM to 1:30PM

McMaster Program for Faculty Development & the Department of Medicine Presents the 1st Annual McMaster FHS Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Symposium

Collaboration & Productivity Showcase

May 21, 2021
10:00AM to 12:00PM

This showcase and discussion will present various use cases, highlighting key collaboration and productivity technologies that enabled remote/online teaching and learning, a variety of educational events, and working from home. The creative use of these technologies provided new possibilities.

MCYU Lecture: "Frederick Banting: Discover The Man You Thought You Knew"

May 22, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

Join us for a Q&A and Maltman’s lively stories about Banting. Discover the man you thought you knew.

Academia Disrupted: Innovations & Dilemmas prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic

May 25, 2021
12:00PM to 6:00PM

14th Annual Day in Faculty Development 2021

The ACE Framework

May 25, 2021
1:30PM to 3:00PM

This webinar will examine options for increasing Adaptability, Connection, and Equity of your courses for uncertain times. The focus is not on the design of activities or on educational technologies, but rather on structural elements of online courses.

Connecting Experiential Learning to Employability

May 26, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

Join this interactive workshop designed to enhance your in-class experiential learning teaching practice, as we focus on ways by which reflection assignments can be aligned with course learning outcomes related to employability skills.

Framing Success: Enhance Student Learning with the Framework for Information Literacy

May 26, 2021
10:00PM to 11:30PM

The Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education is North America’s most widely used model for information literacy education. This session, presented by three McMaster University Librarians, will begin with an introduction to the model and progress through activities related to each of the foundational pillars of the Framework. Participants can expect to leave the workshop with strategies to identify opportunities to integrate information literacy in their interactions with students.

Accessibility in Online and Technology-Enabled Learning

May 27, 2021
10:00AM to 12:00PM

In this session, you will be introduced to the newest chapter addition to McMaster’s “Forward with FLEXibility” resource on accessible education, which will focus on Accessibility in Online and Technology-Enabled Teaching and Learning.

2021 President's Retreat

Jun 2, 2021 to Jun 7, 2021
12:00AM to 11:59PM

The 2021 President’s Retreat will bring together a dynamic community of McMaster teaching and learning award recipients and senior academic leadership to explore the themes of McMaster’s first-ever Teaching and Learning Strategy.