McMaster LibGuides: Continuing Education Instructor Toolkit: Instructor Resources

Instructor Resources

Virtual Classroom Guide

The following materials will help you to prepare your course for Virtual Classroom delivery. In addition to the brief introductory video, you are provided with a general virtual classroom guide, a template for planning your live sessions, along with additional resources on suggested activities and tools that can be used to further enhance your sessions, live session security tips, supplementary content creation, and administering tests in a virtual classroom environment. Please note that these materials offer general guidelines that should be revised and adapted to your course as needed.

Virtual Classroom Guide
Includes synchronous session plan template and list of virtual classroom activities/tools.
Security Tips for Zoom
Creating Tests & Exams for Online Courses

Zoom

As a McMaster University instructor, you have access to the Zoom video conference software to host live sessions for course-related activities.

At MCE, we encourage our online instructors to incorporate the use of this tool into their course delivery because it will allow you to:

Enhance your presence in the online learning environment
Enrich your communication with students (chatting individually or in groups, collecting immediate feedback, etc.)
Address effectively and directly unforeseen issues that may emerge during the course, whether administrative, technical, or academic.
Actively “teach” more effectively by adding additional insights, expanding on challenging concepts, or providing an explanation of specific course content or assignments.

Look for more tips and resources on how to use Zoom in the section Instructor's Guides of your course shell. For technical support or training, please see Zoom - UTS.

LinkedIn Learning - Zoom Training

If you cannot attend a training session or prefer to learn on your own time, you can use your MacID to access LinkedIn Learning courses on how to use Zoom:

Zoom Essential Training

How to Humanize Your Online Class
What you need to know about online facilitation, course design, learning domains and communities of inquiry.

Riipen

McMaster University CCE has partnered with Riipen, an online learning platform that connects students and companies via short-term experiential learning projects.

If you wish to incorporate this tool into your course, contact your Program Manager.

To learn more about experiential learning, review:

MacPherson Institute
Find here training and educational events hosted by McMaster University.
eCampus Ontario: Educator Resources Search
A number of great resources for teaching and instruction. The primary focus is online learning, but many of the resources are relevant to in-class delivery as well.
Ontario Extend
eCampus Ontario has created a series of modules that are based on the Anatomy of 21st Century Educators as described by Simon Bates (2014). It provides educators with an opportunity to explore various emerging technologies and pedagogical practices for teaching and learning effectively in an online environment.
Carlton University Open Modules
Carleton University has a free online series of modules designed for instructors about facilitating and delivering in-person and online courses. They have also curated various teaching tips and tools.
LinkedIn Learning
As an instructor with McMaster, you can access LinkedIn Learning for free using your MacID. You can complete any courses you want at your leisure, but some interesting courses to consider are as follow:
- Learning Desire2Learn 2016 (2:36 hr)
- Desire2Learn 2016: Teaching Online (1:31 hr)
- Desire2Learn: Advanced Techniques (1:05 hr)
- Educational Technology for Student Success (1:06 hr)
- Teaching Future-Ready Students (3:09 hr)
- Core Strategies for Teaching in Higher Ed (2 hr)
- Training Tips Weekly
- Teaching techniques: Making Accessible Learning (50 min)
- Learning to teach online (2:05 hr)
- Instructional Design for Adult Learners (45 min)
- Learning to run webinars (1:50 hr)
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you
collect, organize, cite, and share research.

McMaster Continuing Education is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to all types of learners. Instructors are urged to consider matters of accessibility when developing and delivering their courses.

To learn more about accessible education and what you can do to ensure that your courses are as accessible as possible, please visit the McMaster Accessibility hub at the link below.

McMaster University - Accessibility Hub

The McMaster Equity and Inclusion Office has also created a series of training modules on accessible education: FLEX Forward. All instructional staff at the university are strongly encouraged to review these resources to help enhance the accessibility of their courses. More information can be found at the following link:

FLEX Forward - Accessible Education Training for Instructional Staff