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9:00am EST

Welcome McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

9:15am EST

Keynote Presentation by Katarina Mårtensson McMaster Innovation Park AtriumKatarina Mårtensson

10:35am EST

Break (Refreshments in Atrium) McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

11:00am EST

Highlights of a National Survey on the Impact of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship Program Meeting Room BArshad Ahmad • Ron Smith • Denise Stockley Using Discourses of Community to Achieve Curricular Change: A Case Study of Cross-campus Initiatives at OCAD University Meeting Room DCary DiPietro Digital Humanities to the Rescue! Pedagogy, Practice and Politics Meeting Room CMarie Vander Kloet • Devon Mordell TrAcademic: Gamified Practicals for Computer Science Meeting Room ABrian Harrington

11:30am EST

Developing Communities of Pedagogical Innovation Meeting Room BPhilippa Carter • Thomas Doyle • Julia Evanovitch • Nancy Fenton • Mandeep Malik • Nikolai Penner • Leeanne Romane • Sarah Symons • Olive Wahoush Providing Support for Business Statistics Course: Collaboration Between Faculty and Library Services Professionals Meeting Room DFouzia Baki • Vivek Jadon • Ines Perkovic Surveys and Poetry and Feminist Identity, Oh My! A Workshop on Comparing and Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods in SoTL Meeting Room COrsolya Csaszar • Veronica Ward Opening Doors for More Authentic Undergraduate Research Experiences Meeting Room AKimberley Dej

12:00pm EST

Lunch McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

1:00pm EST

Implementing a University-wide Learning Technologies Coaches Program Meeting Room BD'Arcy Norman Building a Sense of Belonging: The Impact of a University-wide Exam Prep Initiative Meeting Room ASherry Fukuzawa • Jackie Goodman • Chad Jankowski Cultivating Collaborative University-Community Partnerships: Using the IMPACT (Interdisciplinary, Meaningful/Mentorship, Practice, Applied, Collaborative/Community, Transformative) Project Educational Model of Teaching... Meeting Room 2Megan Dodd • Robert Fleisig • Lovaye Kajiura • Brenda Vrkljan Dialogue (2-hour workshop) Meeting Room 5Michelle MacDonald • Felicia Vulcu Teaching and Assessing Skills in Academic Research and Writing, Critical Thinking, and Information Literacy (2-hour workshop) Meeting Room DColleen Burgess • Lise Doucette The Role of Peer Reviews in the Evolution of SoTL (2-hour workshop) Meeting Room CDr. Nancy Chick • Gary Poole

1:30pm EST

Using Technology to Create a Positive Feedback Approach to Procedural Learning Meeting Room BMichelle Belton • Nicole Campbell • Jay Loftus • Sarah McLean ACT in the University Classroom: An Investigation of Academic and Social Impacts Meeting Room ASarah Kupferschmidt • Heather Poole • Wanda Smith

2:00pm EST

The Question of Labs: Questions that the Possibility of Online Laboratories Raise for Accreditation and the Role of the Lab in STEM Education Meeting Room BCarly Van Egdom • Greg Van Gastel • Ayse Turak Blanket Fort Pedagogy: Playing with Mad Culture to Foster Accessible, Welcoming, and Fun Learning Communities Meeting Room AAlise de Bie • Becky Idems

2:30pm EST

Using a Classroom Response System in the Spanish Classroom: Instructor and Student Experiences Meeting Room BAnna Limanni The Impact of Violence on Learning: Cultivating a Caring Academic Community Meeting Room AConnie Guberman

3:00pm EST

Break (Refreshments in Atrium) McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

3:20pm EST

Fostering Creativity Within and Amongst Disciplinary Communities Meeting Room AAlex Liu • Elizabeth Marquis • Kaila Radan Interdisciplinary and Disciplinary Specific Programming: Graduate Student Perspectives and Relevance for Teaching Development Meeting Room DErin Aspenlieder • Katherine Bishop-Williams • Kaitlin Roke • Meagan Troop Crafting Indigenous - Settler Alliances for Social Work Education Meeting Room BBonnie Freeman • Sandra Preston

3:50pm EST

Picturing Wellness: From Adversity to Resilience Meeting Room ANicole Knibb • Michael Obeda • Margaret Shkimba • Christine Wekerle • Dena Zeraatkar Formation and Evaluation of McMaster's New Teaching and Learning Certificate Program Meeting Room DDr. Erin Allard • Rayna H. Friendly • Rebecca Lee Social Networks: The Invisible Boundary of Education Meeting Room BWinnie Lo

9:00am EST

Welcome McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

9:15am EST

Keynote Presentation by Mavis Morton McMaster Innovation Park AtriumMavis Morton

10:35am EST

Break (Refreshments in Atrium) McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

11:00am EST

Teaching Squares: Building Community One Square at a Time Meeting Room CMonica Vesely Students' Motivation and Engagement Does not Influence Their Retention of Knowledge in a Subsequent Term Meeting Room BStefanie Bronson Collaborative Assessment: Research and Implementation Across Faculties at McMaster Meeting Room ARobert Cockcroft • Kevin Dunn • Joe Kim • Sabrina Kirby • Andrew LoGiudice • Terry McCurdy • Kim Volterman

11:30am EST

The Globalization of Medical Education: Creating Partnerships to Introduce the Professional Competencies Curriculum into an Indian Medical University Meeting Room CPalika Kohli • Karen Trollope-Kumar mindJig: An Evidence Based Framework for Fostering Collaborative Communities in Large Classrooms Meeting Room BAakriti Kapoor Student Engagement Through the Use of a Novel Assessment and Instructional Strategy Meeting Room ACristian Altobelli • Michael deBraga • Nicole Laliberte

12:00pm EST

Lunch McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

1:00pm EST

Women Transforming the World/Students and Instructors Transforming the Curriculum: Student Activism and Community Engaged Learning in Level One Women's Studies at McMaster University Meeting Room AKaren Balcom • Julie Gouweloos • Katherine Killam How Do Students' Perceptions of SCIENCE 1A03 Compare Over Time? Meeting Room BRobert Cockcroft • Kaitlyn Gonsalves • Susan He Action Learning Sets: How to Cultivate a SoTL Research Community (2-hour workshop) Meeting Room 5Mandy Frake-Mistak • Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier • Celia Popovic Learning Before Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral Collaboration (2-hour workshop) Meeting Room 2Patricia Regier Teaching and Learning through Social Arts: Creating Relational Spaces of Community Within the Classroom (2-hour workshop) Meeting Room DCathy Paton Why Do It Alone?: Finding and Collaborating with a Teaching Community (2-hour workshop) Meeting Room CSasha Kovacs • Robin Sutherland-Harris

1:30pm EST

Students: Building Links Between Communities and Higher Education Meeting Room AKaren Kus The Impact of Peer Mentoring on Mentors in a Novel Course at McMaster University Meeting Room BLori Goff • Zeeshan Haqqee • Keeyeon Mark Hwang • Kris Knorr

2:00pm EST

Teaching Real Research through Experience: Undergraduate Learning in Hamilton Community-based Environmental Projects Meeting Room APhilip Savage Do Student-led Tutorials Translate Across Student Years? Meeting Room BAnnie Lee

2:30pm EST

Supporting Student Research through the BHSc Research Ethics Mentors Meeting Room BKristina Trim

3:00pm EST

A New Approach to Evaluating Information: A Reflection on RADAR (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumKim McPhee • Kevin Tanner Clarifying Uncertainty About Uncertainties: Exploring a Threshold Concept of Error Analysis in Introductory Physics Courses (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumRobert Cockcroft • Tiffany Shi • Harrison Winch Community Engagement & Student Development: A Case Study in a 2nd Level Clinical Neuroscience Course in the Faculty of Science at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumAyesha Khan • Mirella Mazza • Paul McNicholas • Cristina Tortora • Deanne Wah • Urszula Zoladeski Comparing differing perspectives on a shared experience: University administrators’ and faculty members’ perceptions of quality in Canadian higher education (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumDanielle Gabay • Lori Goff Cultivating diverse communities: Equity and diversity in Canada’s teaching and learning centres (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumDanielle Gabay • Alex Liu Demystifying Science Education: Developing a Conceptual Model (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumLori Goff • Parvathy Krishna Krishna Pillai Sathidevi Direct Observation Tools for Clerks - A Literature Review (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumJudy Baird • Romesa Khalid Helping Science Students with the High School-to-University Transition (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumChelsea Bodoe • Robert Cockcroft • Patricia Kousoulas Leveraging Resources Across Units and Universities to Address Academic Literacies and Research Skills in Ontario Graduate Students (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumMelanie Mills • Elan Paulson MCYU in the City: An outreach model for conducting Community Engagement (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumJulia Evanovitch • Beth Levinson • Danielle Martak • Sandeep Raha One Week, Many Ripples: Measuring the Impacts of the McMaster Fall Break on Student Stress Physiology (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumMichael Agnew • Bismah Basharat • Elliott Beaton • Sean Beaudette • Nathan Cooper • Ayesha Khan • Arpa Modi • Heather Poole • Jeremy Sandor • Signy Sheldon • Joshua Wiener Small steps into the sky: Introductory astronomy students’ knowledge prior to planetarium education (Poster) McMaster Innovation Park AtriumRobert Cockcroft • Ian Fare Poster Session with Wine & Cheese McMaster Innovation Park Atrium

3:50pm EST

Closing Remarks and Adjourn McMaster Innovation Park Atrium