Janet manages the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) learning design unit. She has an Adult Education MPhil and has worked in educational design for 15 years. She is passionate about widening access and creating effective opportunities for learning. She leads the Redesigning Blended Courses Project (2021-2023) which integrates the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into models of blended learning. With other CILT colleagues, she ran the UCT MOOCs project which created 23 Massive Open Online Courses between 2015- 2019, and has been part of collaborative research on MOOC-takers living in Africa.