Upcoming Events – MacPherson Institute

Designing Collaborative Online Tasks for Various Contexts

Mar 1, 2021
1:30PM to 2:30PM

Are you an instructor or TA who wants to incorporate purposeful collaborative online tasks in their courses to foster active learning? This webinar will include collaborative activities and serve as a model for participants to use or adapt in their courses.

What are the Behaviours that Cause Exclusion?

Mar 2, 2021
1:30PM to 2:30PM

This webinar uses collaborative online activities to examine why equity and inclusion must be increased in higher education. We will examine specific actions and scenarios that lead to exclusion.

Calling All Instructors & TAs: Create Interactive Elements for your Course!

Mar 3, 2021
2:00PM to 4:30PM

Set aside one afternoon to learn H5P, an easy-to-use open software to create interactive elements for your course. After an overview of H5P options and examples from McMaster instructors and teaching assistants, you’ll have an opportunity to apply what you’ve learned in a work session.

Collaborative Online Tasks that Increase Equity and Inclusion

Mar 4, 2021
1:30PM to 2:30PM

Collaborative online tasks will focus on techniques and tasks to foster the formation of equitable and inclusive classes in a variety of contexts. The aim is for you to leave the webinar with ideas to adapt your courses to improve the learning experience of all of your students.

Showcase: Teaching in the Open at McMaster

Mar 5, 2021
12:00PM to 1:00PM

Interested in how instructors are incorporating open education into their teaching? Hear from the 2020-2021 OER Grantees as they update us on their awarded projects.