Jolanda Morkel is the Head of Instructional Design at STADIO Higher Education since January 2021. During her former 20 year academic career at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, she designed, coordinated, and facilitated various transformative learning and teaching interventions employing innovative learning technologies. These blended and flexible student-centred learning interventions were designed to serve culturally diverse, non-traditional, and working students to promote access, diversity, and inclusion at the University. Her current research focuses on learning experience design, studio-based education, and design thinking for higher education. Jolanda Morkel is a Professional licenced Architect.