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With 2026 celebrating key 25 year Open Education milestones (e.g. the founding of MIT Open CourseWare, Creative Commons, and Wikipedia) we add a rich collection of stories of the people behind the open education movement in the state of California published as Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Stories from California Trailblazers of Open Education. Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Stories from California Trailblazers of Open Education. The voices in this episode are lead author and interviewer Barbara Illowsky plus editor Judith Sebesta sharing the “story behind the stories.” It is most fitting that Barbara herself is one of the featured trailblazers for her long career effort at De Anza College where her early Collaborative Statistics OER become one of the first titles published on the plarform known widely as OpenStax. The idea for Sowing the Seeds was “planted” by James Glapa-Grossklag (in the book) Dean at College of the Canyons and previous board member of OEGlobal. Sowing the Seeds includes interviews with Cathy Casserly, Una Daly, Gerry Hanley, Barbara Illowsky, Martha Kanter, Gary K. Michelson, Lisa Petrides, and Hal Plotkin (describing all of these leaders would take too much of this post, so follow the links to read their stories). Each chapter includes the trailblazer’s “aha” moment in open education with their perspectives on both the early years of open education in California and where it has gone since. It’s worth noting how so much of the trailblazing started in the California community college system, all leading to the initial creation of the Community College Consortium for OER at Foothill-DeAnza Community College district that has evolved into the even larger reaching CCCOER organization within OEGlobal. And Judith also shared that the followup volume From Grassroots to Ecosystem: The Growth of OER and ZTC in California will be published before the end of the year. We hope you listen to and appreciate all the stories in this episode, and ignore Barbara’s overly humble statements! In the OEGlobal Voices podcast studio with left to right, guests Barbara Illowsky, Judith Sebesta and host Alan Levine. Episode 102 TranscriptDownload Listen with Transcript at Descript.com In This Episode FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by the AI “Underlord” in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices. Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Capturing California’s OER and ZTC Trailblazers In episode 102 of OE Global Voices, host Alan Levine talks with Barbara Illowsky in Cupertino, California, and Judith Sebesta in Austin, Texas, about Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement, an openly licensed OER documenting the origins of OER and Zero Textbook Cost efforts in California. Illowsky recounts her “aha” moment teaching community college students facing financial barriers, leading to co-authoring an early low-cost statistics text that became the first ADA-accessible open textbook via Rice University’s Connexions (later OpenStax), saving De Anza College students over $3 million. Sebesta, project manager for the California Community Colleges ZTC Grant Program technical assistance provider, explains how James Glapa-Grossklag initiated the project to preserve pioneers’ stories as early leaders retire. Illowsky interviewed California-centered trailblazers including Cathy Casserly, Una Daly, Gerry Hanley, Martha Kanter, Gary Michelson, Lisa Petrides, Hal Plotkin, and James Glapa-Grossklag, and Sebesta previews a forthcoming expanded history, From Grassroots to Ecosystem: The Growth of OER and ZTC in California. 00:00 Intro Music and Highlighted Quotes 01:02 Episode Introduction 02:16 Meet Barbara 03:26 Meet Judith 04:31 Workspaces and Touchstones 07:20 Barbara Growing Up 11:39 Judith Growing Up 14:13 Barbara OER Aha 17:26 From Notes to OpenStax 22:39 Impact and Responsibility 24:50 Seeds of the Book 27:53 Choosing Trailblazers 30:35 Chasing Final Interview 31:44 Discovering Hidden Histories 33:20 Why Barbara Was Perfect for this Project 35:18 Building Interview Questions 39:04 Nerves and Surprises 40:32 Why Document Now 45:07 Open Blueprint and Sequel 46:41 Giving Back Ethos 50:09 Seeds and Favorite Quotes 53:46 Life Beyond OER 57:29 Podcast Wrap Up (end of AI generated show notes) Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 102 But my life was so enriched, really so enriched by knowing that I contributed to this movement, to find out how much money at my own college we had saved. At one point before I retired, we had saved over $3 million just in elementary statistics books. And that’s the aha moment. It was like, okay, this is what I can do besides being hopefully a fabulous instructor, and making students not hate statistics, at least tolerate it. This is the little piece I can do to help people achieve their educational goals. Barbara Illowsky Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Stories from California Trailblazers of Open Education Zero Textbook Cost Program (California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office) Collaborative Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, De Anza College (2012 version, Open Textbook Library) Collaborative Statistics (First Connexions version, Internet Archive) Introductory Statistics 2e (2023, OpenStax) Barbara Illowsky 2013 Open Education Award for Excellence as an Educator (OEGlobal) Robert Maxfield (Wikipedia) ROLM Corporation (Wikipedia) Connexions, Rice Univresity founded 1999 (Wikipedia) OpenStax history Charles Sidney Burrus (Rice Unicersity) Open Textbook Proof-of-Concept via Connexions by Judy Baker, Joel Thierstein, Kathi Fletcher, Manpreet Kaur, and Jonathan Emmons (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2009) Community College Open Textbook Project Community in ning (Internet Archive) Marshall S. Smith, former dean at Stanford GSE, dies at 85 (Stanford Report) Michelson 20 Million Minds Barbara was a perfect person to do this because she was doing similar work. You’re being very modest, Barbara, as a trailblazer of open education. So I think had an inside understanding of the types of things that work required, as well as the rewards. Repeatedly in these interviews, the interviewees highlight the joys and the rewards of this very grassroots work that they were doing. They make it clear that it’s hard work, but it also kind of highlights that anyone– that, a faculty member, a staff member, or just about anyone with the right passion and then surrounding themselves, I think, with the right people and resources can engage in this very, very impactful work. Judith Sebesta When you listen to Barbara in this episode describe herself as an “old lady” keep these photos in mind that she shared with us! Barbara Illowsky hiking up Mt Kilimanjaro, photo used with her permission. The open licensed music for this episode is a track called Plant A Seed by Brentin Davis licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist). Photo of field in Central California coast used in background of the featured image for this episode is Field of Greens flickr photo by kla4067 shared under a Creative Commons (BY 2.0) license.

It took us a long time to get from Episode 100 to 101 but this one is worth your listen. We bring you a globe-crossing conversation recorded back in June with Amy Cicchino in Orlando, Florida and Kristina Hoeppner in Wellington, New Zealand. In this show you will learn how Amy, director of the University Writing Center at the University of Central Florida and Kristina, project lead at Catalyst IT for the open source portfolio platform Mahara have been part of a large multi-institutional task force that has created a remarkable guide called Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios. This work has been accomplished as part of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL), the international professional development organization for ePortfolio practitioners and researchers. The relevance of our conversation is not only that the Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles has been published under an open license and that of of the 10 principles is Respect for Author Rights and Re-Use Permissions, but that all 10 ethical principles are applicable to other domains. In the OEGlobal Voices podcast studio with left to right, guests Amy Cicchino, Kristina Hoeppner and host Alan Levine. Amy Cicchino, PhD, is associate professor and director of the University Writing Center at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, USA. Her work focuses on writing curriculum and pedagogy, especially digitally enhanced and online writing instruction and writing as experiential education, and high-impact practices. In addition to her involvement with the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force, she holds leadership positions in the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) and the Society for Experiential Education (SEE). She is the Editor-in-Chief for the Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education journal. Kristina Hoeppner, MA, is the project lead for the open source portfolio platform Mahara, working at Catalyst IT in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. She enjoys supporting and working with the New Zealand and worldwide community of educators, learning designers, and education innovators in both formal and informal learning settings to create positive and supportive learning environments. She has been a member of the AAEEBL Task Force on Digital Ethics in ePortfolios since 2019 and a member of the Executive Committee of FLANZ (Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand) since 2021. Episode 101 TranscriptDownload Listen with Transcript at Descript.com In This Episode FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by the AI “Underlord” in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices. Digital Ethics Principles for ePortfolios (AAEEBL) with Amy Cicchino and Kristina Hoeppner In OEGlobal Voices episode 101, host Alan Levine talks with Amy Cicchino (University of Central Florida Writing Center) and Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT, Mahara) about AAEEBL and their ongoing project to publish Digital Ethics Principles for ePortfolios, recorded June 25, 2026. They describe AAEEBL as an international community of ePortfolio practitioners and researchers spanning disciplines and roles, and explain how 2019 conference discussions on issues like end-user license agreements, consent, privacy, and reuse sparked a task force that brainstormed ~30 ideas and refined them into 10 principles. The current version includes Support, Promote Awareness, Practice, Evaluation, DEIBD, Accessibility, Technology and Usability, Responsibility, Respect for Author Rights and Reuse Permissions, and Visibility of Labor, emphasizing practical guidance, scenarios, and recognizing ePortfolios as labor for students, educators, and staff. They discuss ongoing work, including an AI-focused paper and workshops. 00:00 Intro Music and Highlight Quotes 01:19 Podcast Welcome And Guests 02:58 Meet Amy In Orlando 04:12 Meet Kristina In Wellington 05:45 School Memories And Learning 10:51 What Is AAEEBL 16:19 Who Joins The Community 19:34 Why Digital Ethics Principles 26:41 The Ten Principles Explained 29:41 Favorite Principles Spotlight 36:53 Author Rights And Reuse 40:52 What Comes Next Including AI 47:19 Off Duty Hobbies And Wrap Up 51:54 Credits And Next Episode (end of AI generated show notes) Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 101 I’ll just add the idea behind this structure– we talked a lot about audience when we were developing the first version of the principles, and we wanted these principles to be accessible, to educators, to administrators, but then also to students because students are the ones often doing this work. They’re intentionally concise, and they’re intentionally accessible, with the ideas that you could use then the resources to jump off into to research supporting these principles. Amy Cicchino Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) AAEEBL Board of Directors AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Task Force AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles Support Promote Awareness Practice Evaluation Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization (DEIBD) Accessibility Technology and Usability Data Responsibility Respect for Author Rights and Re-Use Permissions Visibility of Labor The Field Guide to ePortfolio (AAEEBL and AAC&U, Association of American Colleges and Universities) North American ePortfolio Labor Mapping Phase 1 Report A Profoundly Disruptive Technology, on first AAEEBL (Campus Technology) AAEEBL Annual Meeting 2026 (indianapolos) AAEEBL Symposium (online) AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR) (magazine) AAEEBL YouTube channel AAEEBL Shark Tank (pitch your portfolio idea for feedback) And for me DEIBD, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization is a favorite principle because we interviewed a whole bunch of people from these areas. And we also interviewed non-portfolio practitioners because we are not creating the principles necessarily for the people that are in the field but as Amy said, for the students as well. So we wanted to make sure that we also get a perspective from people that are not involved in portfolio practice. And that’s why this one is one of my favorite really because it’s also so rich in the strategies and covers a lot that we want to achieve with portfolios: That students have ownership; that students create portfolios; that students bring in themselves so that they see they belong; that they see that it’s included; that we see the diversity in the answers and not just, ‘oh, everybody’s going through a multiple choice test and it gives the same answers.; Kristina Hoeppner ePortfolios Australia ePortfolio Ireland ePortfolios Across the Disciplines (2023) High-Impact Practices and Third Spaces: Connecting across Disciplines Gresham, M., Mize, M., & Zurhellen, S. Podcast ‘Create. Share. Engage (Mahara podcast hosted by Kristina) Amy Cicchino, McKenna Slaughter, Nghi Chau: Students support students in creating portfolios Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labour Some thoughts on portfolios over the last 15 years Kristina’s photos of benches (Flickr) Open Benches kiwipycon (Python conference) Kawaiicon (Infosec conference) FLANZ Conference 2026: He Tāngata (Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand) The open licensed music for this episode is a track called Im Labor Pt.1 by 4di licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist). Photos of Amy’s location Orlando and Kristina’s location on Wellington are combined and included as background in the featured image for this episode are Orlando Skyline rawpixel public domain photo CC0 and Wellington flickr photo by US Embassy New Zealand shared with no copyright restrictions using Creative Commons Public Domain Mark (PDM)

Here in Episode 100 we cross an OEGlobal Voices podcast milestone of triple digits and very fitting it is for a conversation with Amanda Coolidge who has traversed an impressive expanse of landscapes in Open Education. Amanda was recognized in 2025 with an OEGlobal Board Award of Excellence for Compassionate Leadership. In the journey of this conversation, we learn about Amanda’s journey starting with helping develop the first open education repository for teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa, then into the open education scene at universities in British Columbia, ultimately to supporting the ground breaking open textbook projects at BCcampus and eventually serving as Executive Director of the organization. Amanda shares her influences as well as her insights and perspectives in being a leader driven by an ethics of care for her colleagues. We also hear about her new role as Vice President of Strategic Engagement and Growth at Pressbooks some hints at new projects she is leading there, the strong collaborative spirit that exists in the organization, and a concept of “No Meetings Tuesdays”. Tune in as well to hear how she does all this work while living and traveling across Canada in an RV from a base on Vancouver Island. We could not have had a more perfect guest for episode 100. In the OEGlobal Voices podcast studio with our guest Amanda Coolidge (left) and host Alan Levine (right). Episode 100 TranscriotDownload Listen with Transcript at Descript.com In This Episode FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by the AI “Underlord” in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices. Episode 100: Compassionate Leadership and Open Education with Amanda Coolidge In episode 100 of OEGlobal Voices, host Alan Levine marks the milestone with Amanda Coolidge, VP of Strategic Engagement and Growth at Pressbooks and a recent Open Education Award for Excellence recipient recognized as a Compassionate Leader. Speaking from Victoria, British Columbia on WSÁNEĆ First Nations land, Coolidge describes living full-time in a 42-foot RV with her family, working remotely while traveling. She traces her path into open education from a 2006 project in Nairobi with the African Virtual University, BBC, and Open University UK to build an open repository for Sub-Saharan African teacher education, reflecting on access challenges and global differences in open practice. Coolidge discusses influential mentors, her career through BCIT, Royal Roads, BCcampus, and consulting, and her leadership approach emphasizing listening, boundaries, and recognition. She shares her work at Pressbooks, including a micro-credential authoring platform pilot with Maricopa Community College, and reflects on concerns about budget cuts alongside optimism for broader intersections across open movements. 00:00 Intro Music and Highlight Quote 00:50 Episode 100 Introduction 02:19 Meet Amanda Coolidge 03:11 Life in an RV 05:44 Growing Up Globally 07:55 Finding Open Education 09:38 Access Beyond Repositories 11:01 Hilltop Physics Story 12:42 Key Influences and Mentors 14:52 Career Stops to Pressbooks 16:12 What Compassionate Means 18:01 Modeling Boundaries at Work 20:33 Building at Pressbooks 23:15 Inside Pressbooks Culture 26:01 State of Open Education 29:06 Why Recognition Matters 32:24 Everyday Gratitude Practices 34:37 Hobbies Books and Basketball 36:01 Closing Thanks and Outro (end of AI generated show notes) Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 100 Coolidge Collaborative, Inc (consulting web site) Follow Amanda Coolidge (LinkedIn) From Lost to Belonging by Amanda Coolidge – OpenEd 2019 Keynote (YouTube) Growing Up Open, with Amanda Coolidge (Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast) The Instructional Use of Learning Objects (2000, David Wiley) Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, TESSA Siavula Farewell Amanda! (BCcampus) Strengthening the Open Agenda by Connecting Opens (Paul Stacey, Vanessa Proudman, and Paola Corti) Amanda Coolidge, Marcela Morales, and Maren Deepwell on “The Small Things” (OEGlobal Voices Episode 82) Hat Tip as Gratitude & Micro-recognition (Remixer Machine) Başak Büyükçelen (Pressbooks CEO) Why We’re Writing About Skills, Badges, and Trust This Fall (Amanda Coolidge, Pressbooks blog) I would say it is absolutely true that the majority of Open Education work happens off the side of people’s desk. I think that the only way that the work can be on somebody’s desk or can be continued to be funded or to continue to be that budget line on someone’s budget is the act of recognition. When you nominate someone at your institution or in your organization or someone even outside of your organization who you’re seeing does great work, it adds to both their recognition and for them realizing that the work that they’ve been doing is important to the world. But it also signals to their organization or to their institution that the work that they’re doing is important for the world. It really goes a long way in terms of being able to continue to support and advocate for Open Education. Amanda Coolidge on the importance of recognition The open licensed music for this episode is a track called Back on the road by TRG Banks placed into the public domain under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist). A photo of location near Amanda’s home base on Vancouver Island included as background in the featured image for this episode is File:Mystic Beach, Vancouver Island, Canada 01.jpg Wikimedia Commons photo by Michal Klajban shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Our podcast has been quiet for a while but we are excited to turn the sounds back on with a trip to Lagos, Nigeria for conversation with linguist, folklorist, artist, and storyteller Adéṣínà Ayẹni. Recognized in 2025 with an Open Education Award for Excellence as a Leader, Adéṣínà shares an insightful perspective into the richness and complexity of language in a country that counts more than 500 of them spoken, the cultural importance of localization to ones such as Yoruba. Enjoy our conversation that ranges from the language we think in to learning via music and puppets to the limits of Artificial Intelligence for translation of languages the large corporations are not including in models to the role of mentorship. Our recording on June 15 was intended to highlight Adéṣínà’s achievements recognized by the OEAwards as nominations were still open at the time. And in the time since, as a previous awardee, Adéṣínà’ was generous to serve as a member of the review committee for the 2026 Awards. Also listen closely to this episode’s musical intro track. In the OEGlobal Voices podcast studio with our guest Adéṣínà Ayẹni (left) and host Alan Levine (right). Episode 99 TranscriptDownload Listen with Transcript at Descript.com In This Episode FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by the AI “Underlord” in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices. Preserving Nigeria’s Languages and Oral Traditions Through Open Education: A Conversation with Adésinà Ayeni Host Alan Levine previews an OEGlobal Voices conversation with Adésinà Ayeni (Omo Yoruba), a Lagos-based creator and 2025 Open Education Award for Excellence winner, recorded June 15. Ayeni discusses Nigeria’s linguistic diversity (over 500 languages), the roles of Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, English, and Nigerian Pidgin, and concerns about minority language decline amid urbanization and education policy favoring English. He argues people think first in their mother tongue, citing a Yoruba-vs-English teaching study, and emphasizes translation/localization as essential for inclusive education and Open Education. Ayeni describes projects translating stories, children’s oral literature using puppetry and music, and archiving Yoruba folklore as elders and oral “libraries” pass away. He critiques AI translation for lacking African-language data and promotes creating indigenous-language datasets and mentoring advocates via conferences and large WhatsApp groups. 00:00 Intro Music and Highlight Quote 00:59 Podcast Welcome 02:00 Meet Adesina Ayeni 03:24 Growing Up Lagos 05:42 Culture Sparks Linguist 08:08 Nigeria Language Landscape 11:25 Pidgin English Examples 14:07 Mother Tongue Thinking 16:12 Translation for Education 20:06 Stories Music Puppetry 23:11 Oral Tradition Folklore 27:39 AI Translation Limits 36:08 What Open Education Means 38:45 Mentoring Language Advocates 40:35 Closing Credits Music (end of AI generated show notes) Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 99 Adésinà Ayeni (web site) 2025 Open Education Award For Excellence as a Leader (OEGlobal) Yobamoodua Cultural Heritage Global Voices in Yorùbá Kultur River (Keeping African Heritage Alive) TermLog (Nigerian term database) Nigerian Pidgen English (Wikipedia) Nigerian English (Oxford English Dictionary) Nigeria scraps mother tongue education policy (Global Voices) History of The Six-Year Primary Project in the Use of Yoruba as the Medium of Primary Education (Yoruba Studies Review) StoryWeaver (Childrens Story in their Mother Tongue Stories in Yoruba African Storybook Nigerian Institute of Translators and Interpreters ÌMỌ̀Ọ́ D’ÒYE: A Literacy Resource On Climate Change for Non-English Speakers Of Yorùbá Origin (project completed for Open Education for a Better World,OE4BW) National Open Education University of Nigeria Nigeria Open Education (OER World Map) Nigerian Languages Data & Sci-Tech Conference Firebird Research Nsibidi (Wikipedia) And I have two WhatsApp groups, where I have over eight hundred linguists where I mentor them, on how to be language advocates, how to be cultural heritage promoters, so as to ensure that what I started, continues. Even when I’m no more, there are still people handing on the baton, like that. So yes, it continues. Just like I was talking about, cultural heritage and folklore. I’m a folklorist and almost everything I do is about folklore, because you get the folktale from someone, then you pass it on. So they too become folklorists in the long run. Adésinà Ayeni Join us September 2 for the revealing of the winners of the 2026 Open Education Awards for Excellence, who are likely to be future guests on the podcast. The open licensed music for this episode is a track called Conga Adepro created and shared by our guest Adésinà Ayeni that he has shared under a Creative Commons Attribution License. A photo of the Adésinà‘s location in Lagos, Nigeria included as background in the featured image for this episode is Wikimedia Commons image Aerial view of Victoria island in Lagos, Nigeria by Ayorinde Ogundele shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Para este episodio viajamos a Barranquilla, Colombia, para conversar con Ana Michelle Tellez Ferrer, cofundadora de AlmaFuerte Lab. Ella describe cómo, a través del arte, la creatividad y el bienestar, este laboratorio de aprendizaje está creando oportunidades, especialmente para mujeres y personas con discapacidad, para que crezcan como aprendices y líderes. Reconocida en 2025 con el Premio Open Education a la Excelencia como Educadora, la dedicación y la sólida formación pedagógica de Ana Michelle están teniendo un impacto impresionante en toda Sudamérica, llegando también a comunidades latinoamericanas en Estados Unidos. Junto a su hermana Alexandra, produce el podcast Dos Voces, Un Alma que reúne las historias de científicos, líderes y otros agentes de cambio que dan visibilidad a voces a menudo marginadas. ¡Nos encanta escuchar podcasts con otros podcasters! En el estudio del podcast OEGlobal Voices con la invitada Ana Michelle Tellez Ferrer (izquierda) y el presentador Alan Levine (derecha). Como parte in our Spanish language series, este episodio de OEGlobal Voices ha sido un experimento, ya que el presentador Alan Levine solo habla inglés y Ana Michelle habla español. Se utilizó traducción de texto, subtítulos en directo durante la grabación y el editor de audio Descript AI para generar la voz de Alan en español. Cabe mencionar que esta publicación ha sido traducida automáticamente al español. Agradecemos la disposición de Ana Michelle para participar en este experimento. Esperamos que disfruten de este programa para conocer mejor a Ana Michelle y el Laboratorio AlmaFuerte. Además, es muy oportuno, ya que están abiertas las nominaciones para los 2026 Open Education Awards for Excellence. Escuchen la voz alentadora de Ana Michelle, quien los invita a considerar la posibilidad de crear este reconocimiento para otra persona. Transcripción del episodio 98Descargar Episode 98 Transcript (English)Download Escuchar con transcripción en Descript.com En este episodio Para su información: En aras de la experimentación y el espíritu de transparencia, este conjunto de notas del programa fue generado únicamente por la IA “Underlord” en el editor Descript que utilizamos para producir OEGlobal Voices. Ana Michelle Téllez Ferrer y AlmaFuerte Lab: educación abierta, narrativas y formatos para empoderar voces marginadas En el episodio 98 de OEGlobal Voices, Alan Levine presenta a Ana Michelle Téllez, cofundadora de AlmaFuerte Lab (Colombia) y ganadora en 2025 del Premio Open Education a la Excelencia como educadora, en una entrevista grabada el 8 de mayo de 2026 con un formato experimental apoyado por traducción, subtítulos y una voz en español generada con IA. Desde Barranquilla, Ana explica cómo AlmaFuerte Lab impulsa programas de bienestar, cultura y escritura, usa tecnologías e IA para cerrar brechas y trabaja con estudiantes y organizaciones de distintas latitudes. Describe su pódcast “Dos Voces, Un Alma” y un formato de streaming en colaboración con una comunidad latina en Filadelfia para visibilizar voces discriminadas. Menciona desafíos de crecimiento sin financiación, su experiencia en el Laboratorio de Vanguardia Pedagógica en Perú, metas de llegar a un millón de estudiantes y un llamado a postular a los Premios de Educación Abierta. 00:00 Música de introducción y cita seleccionada 00:36 Bienvenida y formato experimental 02:45 Barranquilla y el premio 04:10 Infancia y crítica al sistema 06:03 De logística a la docencia 07:34 Educación abierta en AlmaFuerte 09:46 Origen y programas del Lab 12:15 Estudiantes globales y STEAM 13:18 Storytelling y humanidad docente 17:32 Historias de éxito estudiantil 19:00 Desafíos y alianzas sin fondos 19:48 Experiencia en Perú con LAVA 23:11 Metas del año y open class 24:11 Invitación a los premios OER 28:50 Aficiones y mensaje final 30:31 Cierre y créditos del podcast (Fin de las notas del programa generadas por IA) Enlaces y citas adicionales para el episodio 98 Y lo vuelvo a decir, porque hay muchas formas de enseñar y, y de entender la enseñanza, de educar, de ver la enseñanza como un puente. Y realmente, dentro de Alma Fuerte generamos programas tanto de bienestar como culturales, como escriturales, y es abierto a docentes, creativos, escritores. Y obviamente, muchos de estos programas están pensados para hacer la práctica más individualizada, más cercana, más humanizada, más de que las personas se sientan seguras en nuestros espacios, pero también puedan sentirse acompañadas. También acompañamos, eh, proyectos, eh, personas, proyectos de aula. Eh, también ayudamos a crear, eh, diseñamos y facilitamos espacios también para que las personas puedan aterrizar sus ideas, puedan generar como ese espacio para volver a sí mismos también. Ana Michelle Tellez Ferrer 2025 OEAwards Individual Award Winner Ana Michelle Téllez Ferrer (OEGlobal) Alexandra María Téllez Ferrer (LinkedIn) Almafuerte.com Almafuerte Lab (Instagram) Dos Voces, Un Alma (podcast, Spotify) Laboratorio de Vanguardia Pedagógica (LAVA Perú) Centro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra (CIMMT, Philadelphia) La música de este episodio, con licencia libre, es una pista titulada Bring Peace de Ketsa compartida bajo una licencia Creative Commonss Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional. Al igual que la mayoría de la música de nuestro podcast, la encontramos en el Free Music Archive (consulta nuestra lista de reproducción completa de FMA). Una foto de la ubicación de Ana Michelle en Barranquilla, Colombia, incluida como fondo en the featured image for this episode es Barranquilla – Barrio El Golf flickr photo by fejorca compartido bajo una licencia Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0).