Leveraging more than 25 years of professional excellence, Dr. Cynthia Blodgett-Griffin is well-versed in online teaching and instructional design. Currently serving as an online graduate distance education professor and a course designer at Blodgett Learning Systems, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin maintains responsibility for teaching online courses, mentoring students, and monitoring her students’ participation in forums and login analytics. In addition, she allocates time to revising courses to meet online distance education standards. Earlier in her career, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin served as an online adjunct professor and online course materials editor for the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University, which recently bestowed upon her its Outstanding Distinction Award in 2024.
Adjacent to her primary profession, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin is civically engaged in her community, having maintained affiliation with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Justice in Action, the lattermost organization dedicated to enacting change to social issues such as food and housing insecurity on a corporate level. Furthermore, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin has served as the president, lead minister and adult education coordinator with the Order of the Red Grail since 1993 and conducts prison ministry services for Wiccan inmates in Nebraska.
Dr. Blodgett-Griffin holds a Bachelor of Science in graphic communications and advertising from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. She subsequently attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and earned a Master of Arts in adult education and a Doctor of Philosophy in education and human services. While recognized as a doctoral candidate, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin overcame a traumatic brain injury, during which time her recovery efforts were spent relearning basic mathematics, rebuilding her vocabulary and reconjuring her memories. As such, she valued her sense of hard work and motivation, which subsequently inspired other adult graduate students to obtain their own degrees.
Among the many highlights of her career, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin is particularly proud of teaching students across 23 different time zones during one semester, as well as tackling a doubled workload following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased the remote and distance learning student population.
Authoring a myriad of works, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin most recently wrote the article “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Information Access on the World Wide Web” for Lambert Academic Publishing in Saarbrücken, Germany, in 2011. She previously penned her doctoral dissertation in 2008, titled “A Grounded Theory Study of the Process of Accessing the Information on the World Wide Web by People with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.” Looking toward the future, Dr. Blodgett-Griffin aims to continue teaching and expand the scope of her instruction to teaching fellow educators who wish to transition to online teaching. Likewise, she endeavors to become a tenured professor at a research university in five years’ time.
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