Dr. Constance Blomgren
@docblom.bsky.social
Associate Professor Athabasca University, Alberta Canada & M.Ed. Director of Open, Digital & Distance Education
#OER #openpedagogy #openeducationalpractice #K12OER #sustainableeducation
Open as possible & closed as necessary
https://www.openteacherab.ca/
#OER #openpedagogy #openeducationalpractice #K12OER #sustainableeducation
Open as possible & closed as necessary
https://www.openteacherab.ca/
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"Firms that provide outsourced digital labor for big tech companies ... are often bound by legal contracts that limit what they can say, allowing tech companies to distance themselves legally and ethically from their workers, experts told Rest of World."
restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce
New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.
restofworld.org
April 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Firms that provide outsourced digital labor for big tech companies ... are often bound by legal contracts that limit what they can say, allowing tech companies to distance themselves legally and ethically from their workers, experts told Rest of World."
restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
April 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#assessment #AU #athabascau #Postsecondary Learning & Teaching
Learning conference ...learning alongside Dr. Eliana Elkhoury about equity, authentic assessment, genAI...
Learning conference ...learning alongside Dr. Eliana Elkhoury about equity, authentic assessment, genAI...
April 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#assessment #AU #athabascau #Postsecondary Learning & Teaching
Learning conference ...learning alongside Dr. Eliana Elkhoury about equity, authentic assessment, genAI...
Learning conference ...learning alongside Dr. Eliana Elkhoury about equity, authentic assessment, genAI...
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Why open?
We have 30 stories that illustrate the impact #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenEducation #OER #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship.
Download & share with your community!
sparcopen.org/impact-stori...
We have 30 stories that illustrate the impact #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenEducation #OER #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship.
Download & share with your community!
sparcopen.org/impact-stori...
Impact Stories Archive - SPARC
Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education have already resulted in significant advancements in disease prevention, economic development, crisis management, improved education, researcher career devel...
sparcopen.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Why open?
We have 30 stories that illustrate the impact #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenEducation #OER #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship.
Download & share with your community!
sparcopen.org/impact-stori...
We have 30 stories that illustrate the impact #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenEducation #OER #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenScholarship.
Download & share with your community!
sparcopen.org/impact-stori...
Learning @ U Calgary - Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching...core beliefs about assessments panel & draft principles of Student Learning
April 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Learning @ U Calgary - Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching...core beliefs about assessments panel & draft principles of Student Learning
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Fancy an OE Cafè with librarians? There's still time to register if you want to join us! tinyurl.com/OECafeS8
Do you want to know why librarians have been working on 22 language versions of the #ENOEL Toolkit? Or how they are adapting it to advocate locally? How to facilitate discussions on the Benefits of OE with the ENOEL card game? Join us! tinyurl.com/OECafeS8
March 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Fancy an OE Cafè with librarians? There's still time to register if you want to join us! tinyurl.com/OECafeS8
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"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."
Reposted by Dr. Constance Blomgren
Join us! @cogdog.bsky.social is hosting the Equity Unbound team including @mahabali.bsky.social and @miazamoraphd.bsky.social will be talking about Socially Just Distributed Care in the Open. Watch live on YouTube & be part of the conversations/ watch it later here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=doUq...
OEWeek Live! Socially Just Distributed Care in the Open with Equity Unbound
YouTube video by Open Education Global
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Join us! @cogdog.bsky.social is hosting the Equity Unbound team including @mahabali.bsky.social and @miazamoraphd.bsky.social will be talking about Socially Just Distributed Care in the Open. Watch live on YouTube & be part of the conversations/ watch it later here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=doUq...
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#OEevents #OEWeek to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a flagship in open education journal, IRRODL -the International Review of Open and Distributed Learning. IRRODL is the number one education journal in Canada, an example of the power of open publishing.
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
March 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#OEevents #OEWeek to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a flagship in open education journal, IRRODL -the International Review of Open and Distributed Learning. IRRODL is the number one education journal in Canada, an example of the power of open publishing.
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
Reposted by Dr. Constance Blomgren
#OEWeek #OEevents
Mar. 3: Retrospective on Open Access -Rory McGreal
Mar. 5: Evolution of Open & Distributed Learning - Connie Blomgren & Terry Anderson
Mar. 7: Emerging Technologies in International Education - Adnan Qayyum & Levina Yuen
Reg. not required. Click at 11am MT.
www.cideresearch.ca
Mar. 3: Retrospective on Open Access -Rory McGreal
Mar. 5: Evolution of Open & Distributed Learning - Connie Blomgren & Terry Anderson
Mar. 7: Emerging Technologies in International Education - Adnan Qayyum & Levina Yuen
Reg. not required. Click at 11am MT.
www.cideresearch.ca
CIDER: Oe Week At CIDER
CIDER sponsors a variety of professional development activities, including the CIDER Sessions, designed to increase the quantity and quality of distance education research.
www.cideresearch.ca
March 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#OEWeek #OEevents
Mar. 3: Retrospective on Open Access -Rory McGreal
Mar. 5: Evolution of Open & Distributed Learning - Connie Blomgren & Terry Anderson
Mar. 7: Emerging Technologies in International Education - Adnan Qayyum & Levina Yuen
Reg. not required. Click at 11am MT.
www.cideresearch.ca
Mar. 3: Retrospective on Open Access -Rory McGreal
Mar. 5: Evolution of Open & Distributed Learning - Connie Blomgren & Terry Anderson
Mar. 7: Emerging Technologies in International Education - Adnan Qayyum & Levina Yuen
Reg. not required. Click at 11am MT.
www.cideresearch.ca
#OEevents #OEWeek to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a flagship in open education journal, IRRODL -the International Review of Open and Distributed Learning. IRRODL is the number one education journal in Canada, an example of the power of open publishing.
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
March 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#OEevents #OEWeek to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a flagship in open education journal, IRRODL -the International Review of Open and Distributed Learning. IRRODL is the number one education journal in Canada, an example of the power of open publishing.
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
Hey there...just a reminder that Canada's Open University, Athabasca, is hiring 2 Assitant professors for the M.Ed. in Open Digital and Distance Education/ Ed Doctorate. We're a small but mighty bunch of profs that enjoy learning alongside our students. . athabascau.acquiretm.com/job_details_...
Assistant Professor, Distance Education
Assistant Professors for Open, Digital, and Distance Education (tenure-track).
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is the largest Faculty in
Athabasca University and offers a wide range of...
athabascau.acquiretm.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Hey there...just a reminder that Canada's Open University, Athabasca, is hiring 2 Assitant professors for the M.Ed. in Open Digital and Distance Education/ Ed Doctorate. We're a small but mighty bunch of profs that enjoy learning alongside our students. . athabascau.acquiretm.com/job_details_...
Reposted by Dr. Constance Blomgren
Nature-based solutions are cheap and effective, and governments have the tools to make them a reality
Nature-based solutions are cheap and effective, and governments have the tools to make them a reality
Nature-based solutions are a cost-effective means of addressing climate instability, and governments already have all the tools they need to help get these projects off the ground.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Nature-based solutions are cheap and effective, and governments have the tools to make them a reality
Athabasca University is hiring 2 Assistant professors for our MEd in Open, Digital and Distance Education. We have great students and faculty...reach out if you have questions. Please share with your networks. Application due by Dec 18. athabascau.acquiretm.com/job_details_...
Assistant Professor, Distance Education
Assistant Professors for Open, Digital, and Distance Education (tenure-track).
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is the largest Faculty in
Athabasca University and offers a wide range of...
athabascau.acquiretm.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Athabasca University is hiring 2 Assistant professors for our MEd in Open, Digital and Distance Education. We have great students and faculty...reach out if you have questions. Please share with your networks. Application due by Dec 18. athabascau.acquiretm.com/job_details_...
Just returned from OEGlobal 2024 in Brisbane with keynote speaker Robert dhurwain McLellan, Program Manager for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA). He encouraged educators to use FAIR and CARE principles when working alongside Indigenous people. #oeglobal www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish...
Data with principles: How to be FAIR, and why you should CARE | SFU Library
www.lib.sfu.ca
November 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Just returned from OEGlobal 2024 in Brisbane with keynote speaker Robert dhurwain McLellan, Program Manager for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA). He encouraged educators to use FAIR and CARE principles when working alongside Indigenous people. #oeglobal www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish...