Kathryn Kure
Kathryn has demonstrated her mastery of open licensing by successfully completing the Creative Commons (CC) Certificate Course. As Chapter Lead of the South African Chapter of Creative Commons, she has been deeply engaged in supporting recommendations to Parliament to the relevant committee regarding sorely-needed Copyright reform in terms of the Copyright Amendment Bill, and she actively advocates for tax policy changes in terms of 18A to enable more Learning and Teaching Support Materials resources to become available at no additional cost to the fiscus while enabling South Africa’s commitment to UNESCO in line with the Recommendation on OER.
Globally, she has worked on policy recommendations relating to the Ethics of Open Sharing, and together with the Wikimedia Foundation, initiated discussions, and edit-a-thons to improve the quality and quantity of information on Wikipedia relating to OER and the CC License Suite and Public Domain Tools. The Commonwealth of Learning have engaged her to facilitate the creation of policies on Open Education, Employability. and Hybrid Flexible Learning at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, and she continues consultancy there with regard to the design and development of Open Education Resources on an Open Source Learning Management System, looking to incorporate Gamification, Micro-Learning, Co-operative Learning practices into the design in relation to educational affordances, with a strong focus on an adapted 6 C’s premised on the importance of Psychological Safety. She has presented a wide range of papers at peer-reviewed international conferences in Open Education, from the Creative Commons, OpenEd and OE Global – the problems of the Global South’s indigenous languages having on a small corpora of texts and this impact in terms of Generative AI to the piloting of the MoodleBox in under-resourced areas.
