The Centre for Teaching and Learning invites you to an Open Education Speaker Series online presentation, "Open Practice in an Era of Enclosure: Is the Medium the Message? " with Dr. Bonnie Stewart, Associate Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning, University of Windsor.

Date: November 12, 2025

Time: 1:30 p.m. (Sask time) 

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

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. 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.