LTED | Office of Learning, Teaching and Educational Design

LTED is a central AUT service with a team of experienced and dedicated learning designers 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

Sally Eberhard
Operational Senior Manager

Mercy Tolentino
Executive Assistant

  • Helen Andreassen
    Senior Learning Designer
    Away on secondment at the Faculty of Business and Law in 2025
  • Jenny Lawn
    Senior Learning Designer
  • Angela Tsai
    Learning Designer
  • Debra Grayson
    Learning Designer
  • Dennis Yeung
    Learning Designer
  • Jennifer Kirby
    Learning Designer
  • Lisa Simperingham
    Learning Designer
  • Nuskiya Razeek
    Learning Designer
  • Asif Rayhan Rasha
  • Metti Lampinen
  • Samirah Ali
  • Sonia Gurung
  • Annemie Winters
  • Jason Cui
  • Lynne Petersen

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:

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