Upcoming Events – MacPherson Institute

Teaching Remotely: Blended Pedagogical Environments

Apr 22, 2021
12:30PM to 2:00PM

Join us to explore what blended pedagogical environments and spaces have been implemented across a range of disciplines and courses. Our panel of instructors will share their experiences and answer questions during a live Q&A.

Get To Know Echo 360: Fundamentals

May 3, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

This workshop is good for new and beginner Echo 360 users. Taking place over Zoom, it will incorporate presentation, demonstration, and time for a question-and-answer workshop.

Problem Based Learning Bootcamp Series: Advanced PBL

May 4, 2021
3:00PM to 5:00PM

A team of inter-professional experts have worked together to produce an updated series of PBL tutorial facilitation faculty development that address the needs of new tutors, virtual tutors, and experienced tutors.

Ready to Go Mobile? Creating Your First App

May 5, 2021
5:00PM to 7:00PM

This workshop will introduce how you can actually build and use your first mobile application. Using MIT Mobile App Inventor, you will design and develop a mobile application ready to use in your personal mobile device.

Echo 360: Managing Media

May 5, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

Dig Deeper into Echo 360 media. This workshop will explore multiple ways to share content in Echo 360, how to edit transcripts, how to edit videos and how to add polls to videos.

Improving the Usability of Your Avenue Course

May 5, 2021
11:00AM to 12:00PM

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

Library Resources Update: One Year into the Virtual University

May 5, 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.

The Secret Ingredients of Engaging Course Design

May 7, 2021
12:00PM to 1:00PM

Join this webinar to discover the secret recipe for creating engaging learning experiences (online, virtual, in-person). Together we will walk through ingredients and create a blueprint that will pave the way for developing an aligned course based on the type of content you teach.

Echo 360: Instructor Course Features and Settings

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

Each Echo 360 course offers tools to promote and measure student engagement. This workshop will demonstrate how to use course Q&A, Polling and Analytics pages, as well as exploring settings that instructors can lock and unlock.

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
10:30AM to 12:00PM

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.