Educational strategy & planning
Align your goals with current tech + pedagogy.
Consulting
Realigning learning design teams for the AI-assisted paradigm.
25+ years in higher ed and ed-tech. I work with universities, L&D teams, and edtech companies to update their systems, processes, and people for a world where AI is part of the workflow, without the hype.
Flagship
Learning design for the AI era
What you get
- A clear audit of where AI fits into your current design process.
- Playbooks and workflow updates your team can actually run.
- Hands-on sessions to upskill your designers and educators.
Why it matters now
- AI is already in the classroom, with or without a strategy.
- Teams that realign fast ship better learning faster.
- Doing nothing is a decision, and it gets more expensive each term.
Consulting
Learning space design
Designing and evaluating physical learning environments that support active and collaborative learning. Grounded in the Seven Principles for the design of learning spaces from the SKG project, and refined across more than a decade of work with universities, architects and government.
What I bring
- Pedagogy-led briefs that get architects building for teaching, not around it.
- Post-occupancy evaluation: did the space deliver the learning outcomes it promised?
- Workshops with academic staff to translate space into practice.
- A research base going back to the SKG project and published widely in the field.
Selected projects
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Spaces for Knowledge Generation (SKG)
ALTC-funded research project (2008–2011), co-led with La Trobe, Charles Sturt, Apple and Kneeler Design Architects. Produced the Seven Principles framework, a survey instrument, and an evaluation toolkit, still in use across the sector.
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PS3 Adaptive Reuse Project, La Trobe University
PSG member on a $18.7M project to redesign the PS3 building, creating a range of interactive lecture theatres and flat-floor active learning spaces.
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Higher Education Active Learning Spaces (HEALS)
Co-chief investigator on an international research collaboration under the IRU–MRUN Collaborative Research Programme (2015–2017).
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Learning Space Catalogue, University of Tasmania
Consulted with senior stakeholders including the Provost and Pedagogy Steering Group to produce a Learning Space Catalogue aligned to the University's pedagogical strategy (2019).
Consulting
Edtech advisory
Cut through the noise. The edtech market is loud and vendors are expensive. I help institutions, programs and product teams pick the right tools, sequence them sensibly, and avoid the well-trodden pitfalls.
What I bring
- An independent, expert perspective. I don't sell anything except advice.
- 25+ years of seeing what works (and what doesn't) across HE, schools, and corporate L&D.
- Procurement, integration and rollout planning, grounded in pedagogical fit.
- Strategic reviews of existing edtech stacks: keep, kill, consolidate.
Recent & past clients
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Curtin University, First Nations Rangers program
Senior educational technology advisor for the program, helping it select, sequence and integrate the right tools for its learners and context.
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Apple
Multiple speaking engagements on learning design, personalised learning, and the use of technology in higher education.
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Curio Group, Director of Learning Experiences (2020–2023)
Four years leading advisory and learning-design work for clients including Heriot-Watt Online, London School of Economics & Politics, Keele University, RMIT Online, Curtin University, and Edith Cowan University.
Other engagements
Technology-enhanced learning
Blended and online learning, built to scale.
Qualitative research
Understand your learners, properly.
How a project usually goes
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30-min intro call
Free. No pitch.
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Scope + proposal
Clear deliverables, fixed dates.
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Do the work
Together, with your team.
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Handover
You own it. I can stay available.