LTED | Office of Learning, Teaching and Educational Design

LTED is a central AUT service with a team of experienced and dedicated learning designers, educational video specialists and learning technologists. Our team supports strategic priorities in learning and teaching at AUT and the nature of our work is highly collaborative - building relationships with academic practitioners, professional staff and students.

We cover a broad range of educational practices including:

  • Innovative pedagogy
  • Curriculum design
  • Assessment
  • Digital learning
  • Educational video
  • Scholarship

Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu | Adorn the bird with feathers so it may soar

Our whakatauki reflects the idea that a bird can’t fly without feathers, but if you give the bird what it needs, it can thrive. For us, this embodies the belief that as staff become more enabled and empowered, they will soar to great heights and be successful in their own way.

Our philosophy is to support staff to do as much for themselves as they can, working as their partner in learning, offering them choice, encouraging their leadership, and modelling the AUT values of tika, pono and aroha. These become the feathers they will use to spread their wings and a korowai to protect them.

LTED staff

Nell Mann
Director of LTED

John Davies
LTED Senior Manager

Mercy Tolentino
Executive Assistant

  • Sally Eberhard
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Helen Andreassen
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Nawal Chanane
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Jason Cui
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Ross Cunningham
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Lynne Petersen
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Annemie Winters
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Debra Grayson
    Learning Designer
  • Jenny Lawn
    Learning Designer
  • Nuskiya Razeek
    Learning Designer
  • Lisa Simperingham
    Learning Designer
  • Shen Zhang
    Learning Technologies Manager
  • Jawyei Wong
    Senior Learning Technology Application Consultant
  • Benny Liu
    Learning Technology Application Consultant
  • Samirah Ali
    Learning Technologies Coordinator
  • Sonia Gurung
    Learning Technologist
  • Metti Lampinen
    Learning Technologist
  • Tanya McCullagh
    Learning Technologist
  • Asif Rayhan Rasha
    Learning Technologist
  • Na Zhao
    Learning Technologist
  • Jin Hong
    Digital Media Team Leader (Video)
  • Nadia Ahmed
    Digital Media Developer
  • Reza Mohammad Yari
    Digital Media Developer

Feedback from the AUT whānau

“I wanted to express a huge thank you to the team, for the excellent support and work provided, both to the faculty, but also on some of the very important work across the university, such as the assessment principles. It has been an absolute pleasure working alongside the team, and the progress the team has made this year is really evident – and you should all be very proud! The work supporting colleagues really makes a difference”
Feedback from an Associate Dean, Academic

Contact us

To find out more about our work, get in touch with our team:

If you’re outside of AUT:

Email lted@aut.ac.nz

If you’re AUT staff:

Visit the LTED page on TUIA

More about our work

Find out more about some of the work the LTED team has been involved in: