Jolanda De Villiers Morkel

Dr. Jolanda Morkel is the Head: Instructional Design at STADIO Higher Education. She has over 25 years' experience in Higher Education, including teaching, assessment, curriculation, internationalisation, academic management, recognition of prior learning (RPL) and work-integrated learning (WIL) coordination, staff development, quality assurance, and learning design. During a 20-year academic career at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa, she designed, coordinated, and facilitated various transformative learning and teaching interventions employing innovative learning technologies. These blended and flexible student-centered learning interventions were designed to serve culturally diverse, non-traditional and working students to promote access, diversity and inclusion at the University.
Prior to joining the CPUT, she taught part-time on the Master’s programme in Town and Regional Planning at the Stellenbosch University.
Jolanda regularly publishes, presents at conferences, and facilitates workshops on studio-based learning, flexible, blended and online learning, technology-mediated and work-integrated learning experiences, learning design and design-thinking for staff development. The focus of her doctoral research, supervised by Prof Johannes Cronjé, straddles architecture, education and information and communication technology (ICT). Through this work she explored the student-tutor interaction in the live online architectural design critique.
Jolanda championed the part-time blended CPUT BTech programme in Architectural Technology (Applied Design) offered in collaboration with Open Architecture, as one of the flagship transformation projects of the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA), and the first of its kind in Africa.
She is a qualified Architect, co-founder of the Radically Inclusive Studio, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Design Studio and the Archnet-IJAR Journal and the ECEL Conference Committee.