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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