an Event for Canadian Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math Faculty
November 18, 2021 12 – 4PM EST
November 18, 2021
12 – 4PM EST
Are you preparing to transition your STEM courses back to face-to-face learning environments? Are you looking for new ways to deliver engaging and effective courses? If so, we welcome you to join our free virtual, interactive, all-day event, featuring one keynote and six discipline learning sessions, where Authors, Digital Faculty Consultants, and Industry Experts will walk you through how they level-up their face-to-face STEM courses using McGraw Hill’s latest and greatest digital learning solutions like ALEKS Chemistry, ALEKS Math, Connect, Connect Master, and Virtual Labs.
If this event is right for you, please feel free to sign up for one or all the sessions below. Of course, sharing is caring, so please feel free to send this invitation to your colleagues, Administrators, Deans, and Chairs so they too can experience this unique, virtual event.
SESSION RECORDINGS
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Our November 18 session recordings are now available on-demand. Are you looking for new ways to deliver engaging and effective STEM courses? If so, join our Authors, Digital Faculty Consultants, and Industry Experts as they walk you through how they level-up their STEM courses using McGraw Hill’s latest and greatest digital learning solutions like ALEKS Chemistry, ALEKS Math, Connect, and Virtual Labs.
We invite you to sign up for one or multiple sessions. Check out the session details below.
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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Bridging the Gap: How to Incorporate Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI) into Canadian STEM Courses
Presenter: Dr. Poh Tan, Director Strategic Partnership Development & Fundraising at Society for Canadian Women in Science & Technology (SCWIST)
Time: 12-12:45PM EST
Women, BIPOC, and LGBTTQQIAAP communities are underrepresented in STEM disciplines and industries across Canada. For example, in 2016, data from Stats Canada showed that only 34% of STEM bachelor's degrees and 23% of science and technology work were held by women. As educators, how do we remove barriers and consciously work towards creating safe and inclusive spaces for these traditionally marginalized voices in STEM?
To help bridge the gap, we invite you to join our keynote presentation where Dr. Poh Tan from the Society for Canadian Women in Science & Technology (SCWIST) will present research about creating teaching environments that welcome diverse perspectives and backgrounds, promotes equitable treatment of students, faculty, and staff, and ensures that participation in learning, mentoring, research, and engagement is accessible to all through a Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI) approach.
Keynote presentation is brought to you in partnership with SCWIST
About Dr. Poh Tan
Dr. Poh Tan is the CEO and Founder of STEMedge Academy Inc., where academic learning coaches work with high school students through a 1:1 personalized learning model to develop transferable life-long learning skills in STEM. She obtained her first PhD from the University of British Columbia in Experimental Medicine and is currently completing a PhD in science education from Simon Fraser University. She is a two-time TEDx speaker, a published author and scholar, and an entrepreneur.
When she’s not managing projects, Poh spends her time with her two sons, dancing hula, playing ukulele, and looking for the best spots for tidal fishing. She is the director of SCWIST’s Strategic Development and Fundraising and manages the organization’s fundraising team to build and scale innovative partnerships and fundraising initiatives, to support and empower women and girls in STEM.
Presenter: Tony St. John, ALEKS Executive Implementation Manager
Are you looking for ways to create personalized learning paths for each student in your Chemistry course? Look no further! With McGraw Hill's ALEKS Chemistry, you can finally personalize student learning paths by identifying the specific knowledge gaps each student has in your Chemistry course and provide them with the just-in-time resources and practice they need to master Chemistry.
Join Tony St John, McGraw Hill's ALEKS Executive Implementation Manager, as he discusses the learning science behind ALEKS Chemistry, what challenges Chemistry instructors typically face in first-year courses, and how the unique power of ALEKS Chemistry helps solve these challenges. We'll wrap this session up with a quick demo of ALEKS Chemistry so you can see it in action!
About Tony St. John
Tony St John is an Executive Implementation Manager for ALEKS based in the SF Bay Area. Tony has been a member of the Implementation Team since the Fall of 2018. Prior to joining McGraw Hill, Tony earned a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry from the University of Washington where he worked jointly with Karen Goldberg and Mike Heinekey. He then went on to work as an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA where he taught General and Organic Chemistry. The next stop after WWU was a tenure-track position at Skagit Valley College, in Mount Vernon, WA. While at Skagit, Tony implemented ALEKS in his General Chemistry and non-majors Chemistry courses. Through his experience using ALEKS as a faculty member, Tony was asked to become a Digital Faculty Consultant, which then ultimately led to him joining McGraw Hill full-time.
ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY
Help A&P Students Experience Active Learning with Connect for Anatomy & Physiology
Presenter: Michael Koot, Sr. Director of Digital Content
Are you looking for ways to incorporate active learning into your face-to-face A&P course? With McGraw Hill’s award-winning Connect for Anatomy & Physiology, students get the active learning experience they need to be successful in A&P by learning how to perform labs experiments, execute anatomy dissections, identify human body parts, examine histological and radiological images, and much more!
Join Dr. Michael Koot, McGraw Hill’s Sr. Director of Digital Content and Pedagogy, who will discuss what active learning is and how Connect for Anatomy & Physiology gives students the active learning experience they need to master those tough A&P concepts. This session will wrap up with a quick demo, so you can experience Connect for Anatomy & Physiology’s active learning solutions first-hand.
About Michael Koot
Michael joined McGraw Hill Education in August 2014 after spending nine years as a faculty member at Michigan State University in the Division of Human Anatomy. His role as the director of digital content is to work at the intersection of content, pedagogy, and technology with both internal and external stakeholders to develop digital products that are effective teaching and learning tools. He has played an integral role on the product teams that has designed and developed McGraw Hill Virtual Labs, Anatomy & Physiology Revealed Connect Assignment, Practice Atlas, and the 3D human anatomy models found in APR.
At MSU, Michael taught medical gross anatomy in both medical schools and was the undergraduate human anatomy course director. Before his position at MSU, he taught A&P as an adjunct faculty member at Lansing Community College. He has taught in several different formats, including traditional lectures, blended/hybrid courses, and a “flipped” classroom that emphasized engaged and active learning. He has presented at, and attended, many faculty seminars and workshops in the field of educational technology. Michael received his Ph.D. in biological anthropology from MSU with a dissertation that focused on Ohio Hopewell skeletal populations.
Presenter: Dr. Robert McKeown
Are you and your institution looking for new ways to increase student success and retention in Math? At McGraw Hill, we know that teaching diverse groups of students from a variety of math backgrounds can be challenging. With ALEKS Math, you can identify what your students know, what they don’t know, and what they are ready to learn with flexibility and ease.
Hear from McGraw Hill’s Digital Faculty Consultant, Dr. Robert McKeown (CFA), Academic Director of York University’s Math & Stats Centre, who will discuss how he uses ALEKS Math. Robert will talk about some of the challenges York University faced institution-wide before using ALEKS Math and how ALEKS Math continues to solve these challenges. This session will wrap up with a live demo of ALEKS Math so you can see this exciting digital learning solution in action.
About Dr. Robert McKeown
Dr. Robert McKeown is a CFA holder and earned his doctorate degree from Queen’s University in 2017 where his research focused on financial stability and banking. He currently holds the position of Academic Director at York University’s Math & Stats Centre. He believes that applying the quantitative research techniques of economics to the classroom can improve the student experience. In this vain, he has taken part in experiments on whether bonus marks can incentivize student performance and how an AI tutor might improve math skills. Robert is a proponent of using technology to enhance the classroom experience. For example, clicker questions facilitate memory retention and both instructor-student and student-to-student communication.
Presenter: Heidi Smith, McGraw Hill Author and Digital Faculty Consultant
Do you spend a lot of time remediating Microbiology students on basic prerequisite concepts? Do you have a hard time making Microbiology relevant to student’s everyday lives? Do you struggle with preparing students for labs? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then McGraw Hill’s Connect for Microbiology is a great solution for you. With Connect for Microbiology, you have access to:
- Microbiology Prep that places and remediates Microbiology students before they start your course;
- Relevancy Modules that help make Microbiology relevant to student’s everyday lives; and
- Connect Virtual Labs that help bridge the gap between lab and lecture.
Please join McGraw Hill’s Digital Faculty Consultant Heidi Smith, who will discuss some of the challenges she faces in her face-to-face Microbiology course and how Connect for Microbiology solves these challenges. You’ll also get a chance to see Connect for Microbiology in action with a quick demo led by Heidi herself!
About Heidi Smith
Heidi Smith is the lead faculty for microbiology at Front Range Community College (FRCC) in Fort Collins, Colorado, and teaches a variety of biology courses each semester including microbiology and anatomy/physiology. Heidi also serves as the principal investigator on a federal grant program designed to increase underrepresented student success in transfer and completion of STEM degrees at the local university. In that role, Heidi works directly with students to train them for and support them through summer undergraduate research experiences.
Student success is a strategic priority at FRCC and a personal passion of Heidi’s. She continually works to develop professionally in ways that help her do a better job of reaching this important goal. For more than 10 years, Heidi has had the opportunity to collaborate with faculty throughout the United States in developing digital tools that measure and improve student learning outcomes, such as SmartBook, Relevancy Modules, Virtual Labs, and other Connect resources. This collaborative experience with these tools has revolutionized her approach to teaching in face-to-face, hybrid, and fully online courses. The use of digital technology has given Heidi the ability to teach courses driven by real-time student data and with a focus on active learning and critical thinking activities.
Presenter: Dr. Khaled Zbeeb
Time: 3-3:45PM EST
Do you need help with getting students to think critically about Engineering? Do you find that your Engineering students struggle with reading retention and comprehension? Are you looking for ways to incorporate more application-based-activities into your Engineering course? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then McGraw Hill’s Connect for Engineering is a great solution for you. With Connect for Engineering you have access to:
- Algorithmic End-of-Chapter Problems that feature our new Free-Body Diagraming Tool and help students think critically about Engineering;
- SmartBook 2.0 that identifies student knowledge gaps and helps them with reading retention and comprehension; and
- Application-based-Activities that help students visualize how concepts they learn in class are applied to the real-world.
Please join McGraw Hill’s Digital Faculty Consultant, Dr. Khaled Zbeeb, who will discuss the common challenges he experiences in his face-to-face Engineering course and how Connect for Engineering continues to solve these problems. This session will end with a live demo of Connect for Engineering, so you can see this digital learning solution in action!
About Dr. Khaled Zbeeb
Dr. Khaled Zbeeb completed his Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University in Mechanical Engineering. His research topics include Computation Methods in Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Applied Combustion. He is currently an Associate Professor at Western Illinois University in the School of Engineering, where he teaches several courses in Engineering, including Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Graphics, Dynamics, Heat Transfer, and Thermodynamics. He is an active member of several Engineering associations, including the American Society for Engineering Education and Society for Experimental Mechanics.
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