Educators & Staff
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Educator Enhancement Certificate of Completion Program
Register for the seminars and workshops offered through MacPherson’s Educator Enhancement Program to improve an aspect of your teaching. If you complete several seminars you can earn a certificate of completion!
Instructional Skills Workshop
The Instructional Skills Workshop is offered within a small group setting and is designed to enhance the teaching effectiveness of both new and experienced educators.
Avenue to Learn
Avenue to Learn is McMaster University’s Learning Management System, or LMS. It provides a secure, online space where instructors can share their learning resources, administer quizzes, conduct online discussions, collect assignment submissions and serve as an online hub for their course.
Course Development or Redesign
We take a collaborative approach by tapping into your teaching experience to give evidence-based guidance on how to leverage educational technologies, produce engaging digital media and best frame activities and strategies to craft a quality learning experience.
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Feedback (Course Refinements, Course Observations)
We have two services that you may be interested in if you want to collect feedback on your teaching
(before the end of term student evaluations).
MacPherson Supported Technology Tools
We provide systems, pedagogical, and software support for technology tools on campus. Each of these tools enable instructors to teach in more flexible ways and offer students opportunities to cultivate digital literacy skills.
Teaching and learning Networks
TLNs are groups of educators who have a shared interest or passion for a topic and increase their knowledge in this area through regular informal discussions and shared experiences. These networks enable educators across McMaster to connect, develop their teaching skills, and enhance the effectiveness of student learning experiences.
Video Production + Studios
The MacPherson Institute offers expertise and support with video production which includes well equipped studio space.
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International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP)
IJSaP is an open access, online, English-language, peer-reviewed journal which is committed to enacting the principles of partnership in the way it operates.
Current Research
We lead and collaborate on scholarship that informs and enhances our efforts to support teaching and learning
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
Teaching and learning scholarship can take many forms, and attracts a wide range of scholars and practitioners. As such, we aim to offer flexible, responsive programming that supports individual scholars and projects, enables collaboration and partnership, and contributes to the development of scholarly communities.