OEGlobal Voices

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).

All of our episodes are special but this one even more so as it was recorded the day that the article Virginia Rodés co-authored with Regina Motz, Between openness and responsibility: how to make good use of Open Educational Resources was published as part of the Sharing is a Challenge series addressing the challenge of “Misuse.” See the recap of the Sharing is a Challenge Series. This multiauthor, multilingual collaboration released a new article 4 days each week during March 2026, in alignment with Open Education Week. The 16 Challenges in the series, all images are Remixes created by the UNESCO RELIA Chair based on artwork from The Greats collection shared under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Joining us in this conversation was ringleader for the project Colin de la Higuera, UNESCO RELIA Chair plus his colleague from Nantes University, Lucie Grasset, who was one of the team that coordinated the complex effort, plus OEGlobal Co-Executive Director Marcela Morales — who wrote the first article in the series on the challenge of Legitimacy. Colin and Lucie spoke about the why and how of the project, which produced in sum 17 articles in 6 languages written by 30 co-authors from 15 countries published across three web sites. And OEGlobal set up a hub on the Open Education Week site that used the feeds from all sites to dynamically list the articles as they were released plus discussion threads always open for your comments in OEG Connect. Virginia shared he she and Regina flipped the issue of “Misuse” to openness and responsibility. This comes from Virginia’s research and practice working with faculty noting the obstacles of appropriation. It has also been influenced by her thinking deeply in her current research on impact of Artificial Intelligence on open education, and how ethics should be approached not only individually but systemically. Her article for the series is cast humanly as a conversation between two educators with both a common ground of motivation for open education and differing perspectives on the rile of responsibility. Yet they come to a place of respect and understanding at the end. In the OEGlobal Voices podcast studio with (top, left to right) guests Virginia Rodés and Colin de la Higuera; (bottom, left to right) guests Lucie Grasset, Marcela Morales, and host Alan Levine. Update: The team behind the project has translated this episode’s post into French. Episode 97 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. OE Global Voices #97: Sharing Is a Challenge—Misuse, Responsibility, and the Work Behind a Global OER Series Host Alan Levine convenes Colin de la Higuera, Lucie Grasset, Virginia Rodes, and OE Global executive co-director Marcela Morales to discuss the “Sharing is a Challenge” article series published for Open Education Week and coordinated by Colin with support from Lucie and a University of Nantes team. Colin explains the series grew from reframing OER workshops around “sharing” and identifying obstacles that make sharing harder today, including AI. Lucie describes the production workflow: collecting articles from 27 authors, editing, translating (including via DeepL with review), publishing across three WordPress blogs, distributing a daily newsletter, and cross-posting to OEG Connect. Virginia discusses her article on “Misuse,” reframed as openness and responsibility amid generative AI, governance, quality, representation, platform enclosure, and provenance concerns. Marcela connects responsibility to legitimacy and the community’s need for practical guidance. 00:00 Intro Music and Highlight Quotes 00:43 Podcast Welcome And Context 01:58 Meet The Guests 05:39 Why Sharing Is A Challenge 07:27 Recruiting Authors And Topics 09:11 Behind The Daily Publishing 12:21 Threads And Early Feedback 15:33 Virginia On Misuse And Responsibility 19:13 Conversation Format And Examples 26:51 Legitimacy Meets Responsibility 29:27 Maturity Of Sharing Practices 32:28 Whats Coming Next 36:57 Hobbies And Human Side 41:38 Retirement And AI Teaching Challenges 43:03 Closing Credits And Outro (end of AI generated show notes) Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 97 So we continued working in that line saying, okay, perhaps sharing is an interesting word. We can use it in a way independently of having to explain the Five Rs and UNESCO and whatever. And it’s true. it’s a word which resonates so much with teachers– difficult to find a teacher who’s in the game for something else than sharing. They’re all in the game for sharing. So that’s where it comes from. And then little by little we understood that, it sounded nice, but it was much more difficult we thought, and that there was something like obstacles to sharing. And we then just listed the obstacles and off we went. Colin de la Higuera 23 Good Reasons for Open Education (2025) Sharing… Our challenges for 2026 Sharing… 16 challenges for 2026 (hub for Open Education Week) Sharing is a Challenge Recap “Sharing is a Challenge” : the Series Comes to an End, the Sharing Continues DeepL (used for translation) And that is the way, responsibility appears as part of approaching misuse. It’s not only a problem of ethics when you use contents that have been developed by other people. Now there is another actor in the landscape that is AI, Generative AI mostly, that take part [in] adaptations. This is one of the aspects that I see the individual perspective of ethics has to be transferred to responsibility, not only as an individual responsibility, but mostly as a problem of governance, a problem of accountability, a problem of stress. Virginia Rodés Between openness and responsibility: how to make good use of Open Educational Resources by Virginia Rodés & Regina Motz Entre apertura y responsabilidad: cómo usar bien los Recursos Educativos Abiertos Entre ouverture et responsabilité : comment bien utiliser les ressources éducatives libres Dubai Declaration on Open Educational Resources (OER) (UNESCO) Mate (drink) (Wikipedia) Nantes Université Frabrique REL Fabrique REL Quebec From Obligation to Recognition in Open Education by Luc Massou How Authors Can Make Their OERs “Discoverable” by Benedetta Calonaci & Alessandra Gammino Come gli Autori possono far “scoprire” le proprie OER (original in Italian) Usefulness: Do we still need OER in the age of AI? by Fawzi Baroud & Mitja Jermol Open Educational Resources: Is Sharing Really Time-Consuming? by Sophie Depoterre, José-Miguel Escobar-Zuniga, Paul Lyonnaz & Nadia Villeneuve Beyond Prestige: Whose Knowledge Counts in Open Education? – Legitimacy as a Barrier to Sharing by Marcela Morales The open licensed music for this episode is a track called Share Your Project by TimTaj shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist). A photo of the location of the team behind the Sharing is a Challenge series of Nantes, France included as background in the featured image for this episode is Nantes, Sud Ouest flickr photo by Arnaud Abélard shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license.

Our 2026 season opens here, an inspiring conversation with Saida Affouneh, professor, researcher, and director of the E-Learning Center at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. We got to learn about Saida via a nomination for a 2025 Open Education Award for Excellence, leading to her recognition as an awardee as an Educational Leader. Saida was a key voice on the panel discussion on the opening day of the OEGlobal Tour in October. We are honored to share with you this conversation recorded with Saida Affouneh in the podcast studio January 22, 2026. In the OEGlobal Voices podcast studio with our guest Saida Affouneh (left) and host Alan Levine (right). Episode 95 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. Navigating Education and Resilience in Crisis: A Conversation with Saida Affouneh In this episode of OE Global Voices, host Alan Levine speaks with Saida Affouneh from An-Najah University in Palestine. Saida shares her experiences and insights as an educator in a region afflicted by constant crisis. Discussing her journey from Palestine to the UK for her Ph.D., Saida emphasizes the importance of education as a tool for resilience. She elaborates on the current state of education in Gaza and the West Bank, highlighting the challenges students face and their determination to continue learning despite extreme adversities. Additionally, Saida explains the critical role of Open Educational Resources (OER) and digital literacy in crisis settings, along with her vision for culturally sensitive, low-bandwidth educational content. This episode provides a deeply personal and motivational narrative on the intersection of education, crisis, and hope. 00:00 Intro Music and Highlighted Quote 00:47 Meet Saida Affouneh 02:20 Saida’s Background and Early Life 04:50 Educational Journey and Challenges 15:51 Discovering Open Education 19:22 Teaching at An-Najah University 22:14 Research and Student Experiences 25:28 Challenges of Education in Crisis 30:01 The Importance of Open Educational Resources 45:03 Hope and Resilience 48:26 Conclusion and Final Thoughts (end of AI generated show notes) Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 95 Saida Affouneh profile (An-Najah University) Publications (ResearchGate) An-Najah National University (Palestine) Nablus (WIkipedia) Al-Quds Open University Technology-enabled social-emotional learning for University educators: a systematic review (Frontiers in Education) Adopting the GHOSHEH Model to Create Innovative Open Educational Resources Based on Rogers’ Process for Diffusion of Innovations (Sustainbility Journal) Affouneh, Saida & Khlaif, Zuheir. (2020). A Hidden Dream: Open Educational Resources. 10.1007/978-981-15-4276-3_4. Enabling Gaza Students to continue University education: UNIMED participates in the initiative launched by the An-Najah National University Sumud (صمود) (Wikipedia) Gaza’s tech workers code from rubble as Israel’s war destroys digital life (Aljazeera) Keeping Gaza Connected: Building Crisis-Resilient Internet Access (Internet Society Pulse) OER For Gaza requested via (Google Form) with these guidelines Stand alone resources that can be used in accredited courses, NOT full length credit-bearing courses Mobile optimised and/or small file sizes (below 5mb) Openly licensed and free to use Suitable for higher education students Available in English (medicine, technology, natural sciences) or in Arabic (law, education, social sciences). Offline Internet Consortium Offline Open Education, Internet w/o Internet (OEG Connect) Arabic Wikipedia About Arabic Wikipedia Discover Palestine (A-Najah Elearning Center) So there are new skills that rise up in the crisis situation that need to be developed. And this could be done through open resources, through like self-run courses with low bandwidth in Arabic, with examples from the situation here or around the area. …The second module that is needed, and I talk about it very much, is related to first aid support– first aid from medical background and first aid from psychological, mental and psychological background. Just the first steps in order to give yourself the support, is needed. The third one, which is very important is about how to be safe online because you know media and how it’s used inside the crisis. We need to raise the awareness of people how to use social media, how to use AI in crisis settings since it could be their main enemy, if they are not aware how to use it, which is very important. Saida Affouneh The open licensed music for this episode is a track called Deserts of Gaza by Ethos shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist). A photo of Saida’s location in Nablus, Palestine included as background in the featured image for this episode is Nablus panorama-cropped enhanced.jpg a photo from Wikimedia Commons by Anna Frodesiak shared under a e Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.