Nokuthula is currently undertaking full-time PhD study in Education, in the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, researching academic staff development for blended learning approaches to curriculum design and pedagogy. She is also part of the UCT Project Team on Redesigning blended courses through Universal Design for Learning. Nokuthula is on study leave from the University of Eswatini, Institute for Distance Education, serving in an Instructional Design and Development portfolio. She contributed to the Southern African Teaching and Learning Forum (SAULT) research project on rurality and technology in higher education. Further, she co-created a Commonwealth of Learning course on Quality Assurance for Blended Learning.