Maha Bali, PhD
@mahabali.bsky.social
Equity/care. Open connected educator. @bali_maha 🐦. Mahabali@mastodon.social
Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice 🇵🇸 #EduSky #highered
Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo
Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice 🇵🇸 #EduSky #highered
Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo
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Maha Bali, PhD
@mahabali.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Join us for the Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) Series this year from 15 April to 6 May, 2025 📅.
Read more and register here: bit.ly/ieh-2025
If you are at AUC or Kean University, register here: bit.ly/ieh25-auc-kean
#ieh25
Read more and register here: bit.ly/ieh-2025
If you are at AUC or Kean University, register here: bit.ly/ieh25-auc-kean
#ieh25
Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) Series. 15 April - 6 May, 2025
Join us for a three week reflection on facilitation, including three live sessions, and asynchronous activities throughout the experience.
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Join us to experience and explore together equitable facilitation.
Facilitated by @miazamoraphd.bsky.social , @nadinneabou.bsky.social Irene Maweu, Therea Destrebecq & Yasser Tamer
Details below via @equityunbound.bsky.social
Facilitated by @miazamoraphd.bsky.social , @nadinneabou.bsky.social Irene Maweu, Therea Destrebecq & Yasser Tamer
Details below via @equityunbound.bsky.social
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AMEN, @mahabali.bsky.social
You were quite restrained but so on point in this.
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You were quite restrained but so on point in this.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind?
Podcast Episode · Learning Curve · 09/02/2025 · 1h 10m
podcasts.apple.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
AMEN, @mahabali.bsky.social
You were quite restrained but so on point in this.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
You were quite restrained but so on point in this.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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“Sunsetting: How Universities Naturalize Ideologically Motivated Cuts and Closures,” forthcoming from a university press probably on its way to being sunsetted
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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I'm arguing for all the reasons I think AI should not be embraced in K-12 schooling here (if you agree, plz vote no here):
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Debate: Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it? - Generative Revolution Insights
generativerevolution.ai
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I'm arguing for all the reasons I think AI should not be embraced in K-12 schooling here (if you agree, plz vote no here):
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
For the life of them, students (mine anyway) cannot manage their time. I give them 3 weeks to do an assignment, coz u know, it can take that long, and they all get started on it 2 days before the deadline. Will break it up into 3 submissions next time!!!
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
For the life of them, students (mine anyway) cannot manage their time. I give them 3 weeks to do an assignment, coz u know, it can take that long, and they all get started on it 2 days before the deadline. Will break it up into 3 submissions next time!!!
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Agentic AI is here: What does it mean for online education?
This was a stimulating conversation with John Nash and Jason Johnston of the Online Learning Podcast.
Note: agentic AI browsers do way more than the custom chatbots sometimes called agents.
www.onlinelearningpodcast.com/e/ep-37-agen...
This was a stimulating conversation with John Nash and Jason Johnston of the Online Learning Podcast.
Note: agentic AI browsers do way more than the custom chatbots sometimes called agents.
www.onlinelearningpodcast.com/e/ep-37-agen...
EP 37 - Agentic AI is here. What does it mean for Online Education? A conversation with Anna Mills. | Online Learning in the Second Half
In EP 37, John and Jason talk to Anna Mills about Agentic AI and
See complete notes and transcripts at www.onlinelearningpodcast.com
Join Our LinkedIn Group - *Online Learning Podcast (Also feel free ...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Agentic AI is here: What does it mean for online education?
This was a stimulating conversation with John Nash and Jason Johnston of the Online Learning Podcast.
Note: agentic AI browsers do way more than the custom chatbots sometimes called agents.
www.onlinelearningpodcast.com/e/ep-37-agen...
This was a stimulating conversation with John Nash and Jason Johnston of the Online Learning Podcast.
Note: agentic AI browsers do way more than the custom chatbots sometimes called agents.
www.onlinelearningpodcast.com/e/ep-37-agen...
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
I'm not recommending agentic AI browsers, but I think educators need to understand what they are and how they can affect learning in digital spaces.
In this free webinar for OneHE, I'll explore possible student and teacher uses and abuses of these systems. onehe.org/event/uses-a... #EduSky
In this free webinar for OneHE, I'll explore possible student and teacher uses and abuses of these systems. onehe.org/event/uses-a... #EduSky
Uses and Abuses of AI Agents in Education – OneHE
onehe.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'm not recommending agentic AI browsers, but I think educators need to understand what they are and how they can affect learning in digital spaces.
In this free webinar for OneHE, I'll explore possible student and teacher uses and abuses of these systems. onehe.org/event/uses-a... #EduSky
In this free webinar for OneHE, I'll explore possible student and teacher uses and abuses of these systems. onehe.org/event/uses-a... #EduSky
Join the #generativerevolution
Should schools use AI or forbid it?
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Should schools use AI or forbid it?
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Debate: Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it? - Generative Revolution Insights
generativerevolution.ai
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Join the #generativerevolution
Should schools use AI or forbid it?
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Should schools use AI or forbid it?
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
"when decision-support systems are highly but not perfectly reliable, users become over-trusting, leading to a 12 percent increase in commission errors (e.g., accepting incorrect AI suggestions) and slower detection of rare anomalies." cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/10/seve...
Seven Myths about AI and Productivity: What the Evidence Really Says
Meta-analytic evidence finds no robust relationship between AI adoption and aggregate productivity gain.
cmr.berkeley.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"when decision-support systems are highly but not perfectly reliable, users become over-trusting, leading to a 12 percent increase in commission errors (e.g., accepting incorrect AI suggestions) and slower detection of rare anomalies." cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/10/seve...
Recently, the wonderful @tbertramgallant.bsky.social recorded a podcast interview with Hoda Mostafa & myself. Tricia's podcast is named after her book, "The Opposite of Cheating" and we focused on our perspective from Egypt #AIinEducation
www.theoppositeofcheating.com/post/episode...
www.theoppositeofcheating.com/post/episode...
Episode 38: Maha Bali & Hoda Mostafa
"The issue I have is honestly that AI itself is a thief of ideas and doesn't really attribute where it got it from." "When you disclose, you're unpacking your thinking and you're making your thinking ...
www.theoppositeofcheating.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Recently, the wonderful @tbertramgallant.bsky.social recorded a podcast interview with Hoda Mostafa & myself. Tricia's podcast is named after her book, "The Opposite of Cheating" and we focused on our perspective from Egypt #AIinEducation
www.theoppositeofcheating.com/post/episode...
www.theoppositeofcheating.com/post/episode...
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I always feel lucky when I get to share space with @mahabali.bsky.social, who has taught me so much over the years about making open education and our classrooms more hospitable to more learners. This episode is a joy and I hope you’ll enjoy listening as much as I did recording it.
In a new episode of Community of Praxis, Brenna interviews Maha Bali about her edited collection Open at the Margins and the ways open education is not always already equitable. @brennacgray.bsky.social @mahabali.bsky.social On your favourite platform or at
www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I always feel lucky when I get to share space with @mahabali.bsky.social, who has taught me so much over the years about making open education and our classrooms more hospitable to more learners. This episode is a joy and I hope you’ll enjoy listening as much as I did recording it.
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I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!
linkletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
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🎉 We’re thrilled to share some amazing news with you… MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! 🎉
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
2025 Open Practices Awards
Open Practices are collective behaviors and techniques that open up access to educational opportunities. These practices promote and support the use of open educational resources, technologies, and so...
awards.oeglobal.org
October 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🎉 We’re thrilled to share some amazing news with you… MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! 🎉
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20...
Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social
Honored for @equityunbound.bsky.social to be among the shortlisted nominees for the OE Global Awards on "How We Share" alongside the work of Mays Imad
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
2025 Shortlist of Finalists
The annual Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary Individuals, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and inn...
awards.oeglobal.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Honored for @equityunbound.bsky.social to be among the shortlisted nominees for the OE Global Awards on "How We Share" alongside the work of Mays Imad
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
awards.oeglobal.org/2025-finalis...
I find it interesting (but not frustrating or upsetting) that my non-peer-reviewed writing (on blogs or similar) get cited more often than my peer-reviewed articles. The issue is of course that academia counts/rewards the citations of the peer-reviewed ones only. Not the usefuleness of all of it.
October 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I find it interesting (but not frustrating or upsetting) that my non-peer-reviewed writing (on blogs or similar) get cited more often than my peer-reviewed articles. The issue is of course that academia counts/rewards the citations of the peer-reviewed ones only. Not the usefuleness of all of it.
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To be honest, I only made it through about a paragraph or so of Paul LeBlanc before I skipped ahead to @mahabali.bsky.social‘s insightful critique. We are supposed to see the launch of their LE-1 this month, so I guess we will see what they are overhyping right now…
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
To be honest, I only made it through about a paragraph or so of Paul LeBlanc before I skipped ahead to @mahabali.bsky.social‘s insightful critique. We are supposed to see the launch of their LE-1 this month, so I guess we will see what they are overhyping right now…
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
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Not to constantly refer to one of my own translations, but Saitō's use of André Gorz's distinction between open and locking technologies is very pertinent here -- generative AI is locking tech masquerading as open tech
September 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Not to constantly refer to one of my own translations, but Saitō's use of André Gorz's distinction between open and locking technologies is very pertinent here -- generative AI is locking tech masquerading as open tech
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Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
Brood Parasites
Humans have always invested great meaning in birds. No surprise, what with the feathers, the flight. Each week, when I look at all the stories that've been told about education and technology and try ...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/brood-parasi...
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“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
A Letter to Letters — Grow Beyond Grades
In this letter, Subhiksha Sreeram breaks up with grades, recalling how letters once ruled her worth and turned learning into a numbers game. She shares how chasing A’s left her anxious, perfectionisti...
growbeyondgrades.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest.
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
Reposted by Maha Bali, PhD
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Ep 2 of Learning Curve just dropped! This one looks at a new model for teaching with AI proposed by Paul LeBlanc, former president of SNHU, plus some reaction from longtime teaching expert Maha Bali. Can AI bots be part of teaching w/o cutting off human connection?
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
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#ICYMI, last week we spoke with @mahabali.bsky.social on #digitalliteracy and #AI in the classroom. Tune in at: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
August 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#ICYMI, last week we spoke with @mahabali.bsky.social on #digitalliteracy and #AI in the classroom. Tune in at: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
In this podcast episode, I respond to Matter & Space and critique their claims to transform edu with AI
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
What If College Teaching Was Redesigned With AI In Mind? | Learning Curve
A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...
learningcurve.fm
September 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
In this podcast episode, I respond to Matter & Space and critique their claims to transform edu with AI
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
learningcurve.fm/episodes/wha...
Would love to hear what you think
I'm giving a keynote today on Cultivating socially just care in academia today via SLU, starting 1.15pm Sweden time, 11.15 GMT, 2.15pm Cairo, and way early ET 7.15am
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SLU Education Conference Day 1 Keynote: Dr. Maha Bali. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Keynote talk will start at 13:15 and will be streamed from Loftets hörsal i Ultuna.
slu-se.zoom.us
August 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm giving a keynote today on Cultivating socially just care in academia today via SLU, starting 1.15pm Sweden time, 11.15 GMT, 2.15pm Cairo, and way early ET 7.15am
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here if interested:
slu-se.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🎧 New Episode: AI in the Classroom w/ @mahabali.bsky.social
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech
AI in the Classroom: Power, Bias and Opportunity with Maha Bali
Podcast Episode · Educating to Be Human Podcast · 08/19/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🎧 New Episode: AI in the Classroom w/ @mahabali.bsky.social
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech
exploring how #AI shapes power, equity & relationships in education - and why questioning tech is crucial in today’s world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
#AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #CriticalPedagogy #FutureOfLearning #EdTech