2025 Posters

This poster explores student leadership and partnership in the development and implementation of the 2025 McMaster Textbook Affordability Survey. Co-developed with an undergraduate student, the survey gathered responses from 2,757 McMaster undergraduate students about their experiences with the costs of textbooks and other required course materials. Findings highlight the financial burden of course materials, including…

This session presents a practical and adaptable approach to open education that places students’ identities, experiences, and cultural knowledge at the centre of learning. Building on classroom cases from both K–12 and postsecondary contexts in China and Canada, the session explores how identity-based, exploratory tasks can support motivation, engagement, and adaptation among multilingual learners in…

The EduWiki Hub is a global initiative of the Wikipedia & Education User Group that supports educators, volunteers, and institutions in integrating Wikimedia projects into teaching and learning. This poster highlights how the Hub strengthens open education by providing structured support through mentorship, capacity-building sessions, thematic working groups, and a global newsletter that connects practitioners…

The aim of Crafting Magic is to create a magic effect, successfully perform the effect, and, finally, to produce a Grimoire that encodes the crafted magic in such a way that others may successfully perform the effect. Working in two cults, players craft forms of ‘everyday magic’, their origin myths, their technologies of enchantment and…

This session presents a practical and adaptable approach to open education that places students’ identities, experiences, and cultural knowledge at the centre of learning. Building on classroom cases from both K–12 and postsecondary contexts in China and Canada, the session explores how identity-based, exploratory tasks can support motivation, engagement, and adaptation among multilingual learners in…

AI in Higher Education Innovation Exchange (2025) is a transdisciplinary project that culminated in the recently published open-access book of the same name—an edited collection of case studies from educators experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI) across diverse teaching and learning contexts. The project originated from an innovation event at the University of Calgary that brought…