Speaker - Ash Barber

Ash Barber is the Senior Coordinator, OER Collective at the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL). Throughout her career in university libraries, her work has had a keen focus on the promotion and integration of open educational practices and development of inclusive open educational resources. Ash is driven by lifelong learning (AKA insatiable curiosity) and empowering others through equitable access to information. Ash is the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Open Education Conference (#OpenEd), a Co-Convenor of the ASCILITE Australasian Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group (OEP SIG) and was awarded a Fellowship by the Libraries of the Australian Technology Network to develop the website EmpoweredOER which provides practical tools for embedding equity in OER. You can find Ash @AshTheLibrarian on LinkedIn, Bluesky and Mastodon.au.