THE CIDER SESSIONS
WEBINAR SERIES FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION RESEARCH
The CIDER Sessions are an online, open and free seminar series through which researchers or research groups can present their work to a broad audience of fellow researchers, practitioners, and students from across Canada and around the world. If you have recent research for our CIDER audience, contact Dan Wilton.
UPCOMING SESSIONS
March 3, 2026
Experiences of online faculty in using open pedagogy to support social justice
Melissa Ashman
It is often assumed that open education, by virtue of improving access to education, de facto supports social justice, but this is not the case. Additionally, online learning is generally thought to improve students' access to education because of...
Experiences of online faculty in using open pedagogy to support social justice
Melissa Ashman
It is often assumed that open education, by virtue of improving access to education, de facto supports social justice, but this is not the case. Additionally, online learning is generally thought to improve students' access to education because of...
March 18, 2026
Accountability in AI-assisted scholarship: A Goffmanian perspective
Jim O’Driscoll
The use of Generative AI to formulate text has thrown up a number of thorny questions concerning the position of authors and publishers in scholarship. To whom/what should a scholarly work be credited? Who has copyright? Who is responsible for the...
Accountability in AI-assisted scholarship: A Goffmanian perspective
Jim O’Driscoll
The use of Generative AI to formulate text has thrown up a number of thorny questions concerning the position of authors and publishers in scholarship. To whom/what should a scholarly work be credited? Who has copyright? Who is responsible for the...
September 16, 2026
Reframing Disability in the Online Writing Centre: How Photovoice and Generative AI Inform the Practice of Parasupport
Cara Violini
A higher representation of students with disabilities choose to learn online because of accessibility, flexibility, the privacy to disclose disability or not, and the affordance to schedule around interruptions in health or challenges exacerbated by...
Reframing Disability in the Online Writing Centre: How Photovoice and Generative AI Inform the Practice of Parasupport
Cara Violini
A higher representation of students with disabilities choose to learn online because of accessibility, flexibility, the privacy to disclose disability or not, and the affordance to schedule around interruptions in health or challenges exacerbated by...
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