About me
As Chapter Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, she has been deeply engaged in recommendations to Parliament regarding sorely-needed Copyright reform in terms of the Copyright Amendment Bill, and she actively advocates for tax policy changes in order to enable more open educational 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.
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 has consulted 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 lectured at both the University of the Witwatersrand and at Vega, is a trained Human Sciences Researcher, an Independent Member of the Southern African Marketing Research Association, and through STEAM Foundation NPC, piloted a MoodleBox Project (The Moodle LMS ported to a Raspberry Pi) for an under-resourced school with low connectivity and intermittent electricity. She has presented at a number of international conferences on Open Education, from the potential impact of Generative AI on The Commons in terms of CC’s concept of “better sharing” to the piloting of the MoodleBox.