Kathryn Kure

Kathryn Kure is the Chapter Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, in which role she has been deeply engaged in supporting the recommendations to Parliament around sorely-needed Copyright reform in relation to the Copyright Amendment Bill and has actively advocated for tax policy changes to enable more OER resources to become available at no additional cost to the fiscus, and more recently with regard to the National Book Policy in terms of Open Licensing. 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. She has been engaged by the Commonwealth of Learning to facilitate the creation of policies on Open Education, Employability and Hybrid and Flexible Learning at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, and the design and development of Open Education Resources on an Open Source Learning Management System, looking at Gamification,  Micr0-Learning and Psychological Belonging. She has lectured at both Wits and Vega, is a trained Human Sciences Researcher, an Independent Member of the Southern African Marketing Research Association, and has engaged in using African OER resources using MoodleBox for under-resourced schools with low connectivity and intermittent electricity and has recently presented this work at a number of international conferences on Open Education, including OpenEd, and has also presented on concerns regarding AI at Creative Commons and OE Global conferences, as well as reflected on how to address “frictions” in adoption of OER .