Ranga Auaha Ako | Learning and Teaching Design Team

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Ranga Auaha Ako works in partnership with faculties and other professional service units to purposefully plan and design high quality, inclusive learning experiences.

About us

Ranga Auaha Ako is part of the University’s Education Office. We are a cross-functional team of learning designers, application specialists, software developers and educational technologists who believe in the value of designing for learning. We work at different scales – on projects at the university and faculty-level, on programme and course design and on smaller projects that might involve redesigning an element of a course. From 2023 onwards much of our work will be focussed on supporting the Curriculum Framework Transformation project.

TeachWell Consult

We talk teaching! If you would like to explore:

Assessment design
Making digital learning decisions
Course design
Relational learning strategies
Writing learning outcomes
Accessibility or Canvas baseline practices
Other aspects of your teaching practice

We offer up to three hours of consultation time with an experienced learning designer from Ranga Auaha Ako. Consider using this time to explore ideas and potential in your current teaching practice.

Our Learning designers can partner with you as a critical friend or supportive colleague to delve into your current teaching challenge.

How does it work?

Raise a service request through the TeachWell Consult portal.
One of our team will be in touch within 48 hours to book an initial chat so that we can better understand your context and specific requirement.
From there, we can arrange further meetings as required, up to a total of three hours.

Contact us

Ranga Auaha Ako
The University of Auckland
Level 3, Fisher International Building
18 Waterloo Quadrant
Auckland 1010
New Zealand

Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand

We also partner with faculty’s Curriculum Development Managers on large scale strategic projects.

Curriculum Development Managers

Arts – Dr Bettina Schwenger
Business School – Una Lightfoot
Creative Arts and Industries – Richard Durham
Education and Social work – Dr Lawrence (Larry) May
Engineering – Dr Claire Donald
Law – Oriel Kelly
Medical and Health Sciences – Ashwini Datt
Science – Dr Marion Blumenstein and Te Kahuratai Moko-Painting

Our approach is

Collaborative

We will work alongside you and guide you through a design process to co-create rewarding, inclusive and sustainable student learning experiences. We will ask supportive and sometimes challenging questions about your approaches to teaching. Through building reciprocity, will help you get closer to achieving your teaching and learning goals.

Design-led

We will help you to design new and existing programmes and courses, according to your needs. Through relationship-building and whanaungatanga, we will discuss your pedagogical intentions and explore how learning design can make impactful changes to the staff and student experience. We will focus on Universal Design for Learning principles, which include making plans for a diverse student community through:

Creating opportunities for active and relational learning.
Designing authentic assessments and new approaches to feedback.
Exploring how technologies can create rich blended learning experiences.

Evidence-informed

We maintain awareness of emerging trends and good practice in education and curriculum design. We will help you incorporate evidence-based approaches into the design and development of your programme or course. We can also link you to resources and networks for further professional development.