Maha Bali

Equity Unbound and community building

American University in Cairo, Egypt

Maha Bali, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where she has been a faculty developer since 2003. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the co-director of Virtually Connecting and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound, and is an advisory board member of OneHE and the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project. She tweets @bali_maha and blogs at https://blog.mahabali.me.

Develop your teaching with Maha Bali

Purpose to Practice

by Maha Bali

Use the Purpose to Practice structure with students to co-develop “community guidelines” for the class.

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Thick Greetings

by Maha Bali, Mia Zamora, Autumm Caines, Laura Gibbs, Rebecca J. Hogue

Try out a slower and more deliberate opportunity for everyone to introduce themselves.

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Asynchronous & Synchronous Introductions

by Mia Zamora, Maha Bali

For students to share multiple dimensions of themselves, synchronously or asynchronously.

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Cognitive/exam Wrappers for Metacognition

by Maha Bali

Help students reflect on their exam/assessment performance in order to improve future performance in your course.

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Online Facilitation Refresher

by Flower Darby, Leigh Graves Wolf, Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Virna Rossi, Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, Mia Zamora

Getting back into the swing of online facilitation? This learning path takes you through the top tips, tools and advice offered by OneHE experts over the last year.

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Critical Uncertainties

by Autumm Caines, Maha Bali

Engage everyone in making sense of profound challenges. Use to address difficult or confusing topics.

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