Join us for an online presentation with Dr. Bonnie Stewart: Open Practice in an Era of Enclosure: Is the Medium the Message?

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Please join us for an online Open Education Speaker Series presentation, "Open Practice in an Era of Enclosure: Is the Medium the Message?" with Dr. Bonnie Stewart, University of Windsor

Date: November 12, 2025

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Sask time) 

Location: Zoom (You will receive the link when you register)

Register at: https://uregina.libcal.com/event/3930912

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Abstract

How do open practitioners navigate the weaponization of the platforms that support open educational pedagogies? How do we make sense of the current forces attempting to shape what learning and knowledge mean in our classrooms? How do we distinguish between tools of power and tools of knowledge? This talk will provide an overview of a decade of digital enclosure and the hype surrounding GenAI in higher education, and offer practical pathways for fostering agency, belonging, and participatory educational values.

Presenter Bio

Dr. Bonnie Stewart is a longtime educator and digital researcher whose work in participatory learning has spanned all eras of the web. As Associate Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning in the University of Windsor's Faculty of Education, Bonnie explores the implications of digital information ecosystems for institutions and society. Bonnie was an early MOOC researcher and ethnographer of Twitter as an academic environment, and currently investigates what it means to know, to learn, and to belong - at the human level, with agency - in an era increasingly marked by digital automation and weaponization.

 

Shuana Niessen, M.Ed.

Open Education & Publishing Program Manager

AH 105.26 Center for Teaching and Learning

Regina SK S4S 0A2

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