This is the first of our series of episodes highlighting winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence. Appropriately, we start with an award winning student, Yasser Tamer, a student in comparative literature plus minors in education and linguistics at the American University in Cairo. For his dedicated work as an open advocate for students with disabilities, researcher of artificial intelligence, and open education facilitator, Yasser was recognized in 2023 with an Individual OE Award in the Student category.

In this conversation, Yasser shares his passion for learning and research, constructively helping to grow their awareness and understanding of accessibility, and how he applies these practices in both social media and as a co-facilitator of the faculty development programs of Equity Unbound. Listen in to our conversation and you will come to expect to see one day Yasser with his PhD leading teaching and research in higher education.

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In this podcast episode, host Alan Levine speaks with Yasser Tamer, a student award winner from the Open Education Global. Yasser shares his journey as a blind student in Egypt, who aims to become an educator and normalize the presence of educators with disabilities. Discussing his academics, his activism on Twitter, his views on using AI in education, and his love for football, Yasser paints a vivid picture of multifaceted growth and determination. He touches on the important role that Open Education plays in impro