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SUMMARY:OEWeek Live! Socially Just Distributed Care in the Open with Equity Unbound
DESCRIPTION:How MYFest and Intentionally Equitable Hospitality manifest to promote socially just care in the open \nWe are delighted to offer this open conversation with a fantastic team of representatives from Equity Unbound– the  movement started in 2018 focused then on “equity-focused\, open\, connected\, intercultural learning curriculum for teaching digital literacies to educators and co-learners in diverse educational contexts.”  \nWe will learn how this has evolved and grown to now in 2025 for an open discussion on the How Mid-Year Festival (MYFest) and Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) manifest to promote socially just care in the open. As we are all witnessing\, this current time is a call for much more acts of care. \nHow can you be part of Equity Unbound and their mission “Making Borders Meaningless”? Learn more about IEH and as well what is in store for the next round of MYFest starting in June 2025. \nJoining in the conversation are: \n\nMaha Bali (American University in Cairo\, Equity Unbound Co-Founder)\nMia Zamora (Kean University\, Equity Unbound Co-Founder)\nYasmine Abulfadl  (American University in Cairo\, Equity Unbound)\nNadine Aboulmagd (American University in Cairo\, Program Manager Equity Unbound)\n\nWatch live in YouTube and be part of the conversations are see it later: \n\nNote the format of our OEWeek Live conversations are strongly inspired by the early efforts many here were involved with via Virtually Connecting – its spirit lives on here. \nMore information\n\nEquity Unbound https://equityunbound.org/\n\nEquity Unbound ONEHE Community Building Activities https://onehe.org/equity-unbound/\n\n\nMYFest (Mid Year Festival) 2025 https://myfest.equityunbound.org/ \n\nExpress Interest in MYFest25 https://forms.gle/CtXFsvSAGC5WwCXY6 \n\n\nIntentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) https://equityunbound.org/events/intentionally-equitable-hospitality-ieh/ \n\nBali\, M.\, & Zamora\, M. (2023). Designing and Adapting for Community with Intentionally Equitable Hospitality. Learning Design Voices. University of Cape Town.\nBali\, M.\, Station\, G.\, Zamora\, M. (2022\, August 24). Online Does Not Mean Isolated. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/24/building-community-online-conferences-events-opinion\nBali\, M.\, & Zamora\, M. (2022). The Equity-Care Matrix: Theory and practice. Italian Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.17471/2499-4324/1241 \nBali\, M.\, Caines\, A.\, Hogue\, R. J.\, DeWaard\, H. J.\, & Friedrich\, C. (2019). Intentionally equitable hospitality in hybrid video dialogue: The context of virtually connecting. eLearning Mag. Retrieved from https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=3331173 \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/equity-unbound/
LOCATION:Online from Multiple Locations
CATEGORIES:Equity and Access,Social Justice
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SUMMARY:OE Week Reflection with Alan Levine & Equity Unbound Community
DESCRIPTION:We will host a post-OE Week reflection session\, with Alan Levine. This will be an open conversation and reflection using the posts from the Padlet we will be collecting and curating reflections\, thoughts\, ideas throughout OE Week.  \nThis session will take place on Monday 17 March at 9 pm Cairo | 7 pm UTC | 3 pm EDT. If you’d like to join us for that\, please register using the registration link below.
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/oe-week-reflection-with-alan-levine-equity-unbound-community/
LOCATION:Online from Multiple Locations
CATEGORIES:Equity and Access,Open Educational Practices,Social Justice
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SUMMARY:Designing With\, Not Around\, Disabled Learners: A Screen-Reader Demo Experience
DESCRIPTION:This session from Equity Unbound will demonstrate why screen-reader access is important when designing learning materials\, especially Open Educational Resources. Have you ever wanted to know how people who are visually impaired or totally blind access your content? Come to this session and I\, a visually impaired screen-reader user and an accessibility expert myself\, will demonstrate for you the experience of a blind person navigating websites and digital materials. \nWe will begin with a TRIZ Liberating Structures activity in which participants will intentionally design the worst possible experience for someone using a screen reader. As we name common mistakes and exclusionary practices first\, we will surface the barriers that disabled users encounter every day. \nThrough screen-reader demonstrations on JAWS\, NVDA\, and Voiceover\, participants will experience how everyday design choices shape who can participate fully in learning spaces and who is required to work harder to feel “included” because the design was not made accessible from the beginning. Participants will see concrete examples of inaccessible practices\, such as poorly structured documents\, missing alt text\, cluttered layouts\, and excessive emoji use\, and how these choices interfere with learning and participation. \nThe session will connect these examples to the four principles of accessibility: perceivable\, operable\, user-friendly\, and real. We will also discuss reasonable accommodations and why accessibility must be built into course design rather than added later. Throughout the session\, participants will be invited to reflect\, ask questions\, and rethink their own materials. By the end\, they will leave with practical strategies for creating learning spaces that are genuinely inclusive for screen reader users. \nRecording Now Available\n\nSee also the presentation slides  and an anonymized chat log from this session
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/designing-with-not-around-disabled-learners/
LOCATION:Cairo\, Egypt\, Cairo\, Egypt
CATEGORIES:Equity and Access,Open Education Resources,Open Educational Practices,Open Source Platforms,Social Justice
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SUMMARY:Centering Humanity and Compassion in Our Approach to AI
DESCRIPTION:We would like to invite you to a session offered by the Wellbeing Higher Education Network (WHEN)\, in collaboration with Equity Unbound. \nThis online gathering will feature a spotlight session titled Centering Humanity and Compassion in Our Approach to AI\, led by Equity Unbound co-leads Maha Bali and Mia Zamora. \nIn light of our current reality and the growing presence of AI in higher education\, this session will offer a space to reflect together on how we can stay grounded in humanity\, care\, and compassion in the ways we engage with these tools. We hope you can join us.
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/centering-humanity-compassion-ai/
LOCATION:Cairo\, Egypt\, Cairo\, Egypt
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence
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