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 learning environments — physical and virtual — that match the way people actually learn. 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
- Independent 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, active learning spaces, 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.