Aliya Steed

UNE is a regional university with an Australiawide and international cohort of 18,000 online students comprising 80% its total enrolment. UNE provides its students with a transformative learning experience that is enabled by a high quality, innovative and flexible learning environment. Currently, UNE is implementing a strategy of academic transformation through a radical curriculum redevelopment. As is often the case, the role of the learning designer is to articulate the voice of the students in the design process. Thus, in a change process in which the paradigm shift is to build a student-centred, flexible and personalized online learning experience which places “the student, not the subject, as the central feature of the university [learning experience]”, learning designers will take the lead.