Miriam Reynoldson CV

Professional experience

  • 2024–NOW

    Education and Design Projects
    Contracts and consulting


    What I do

    I’m a learning design specialist, educator and design facilitator, open to project opportunities in higher ed, VET and professional learning. I can support you with end-to-end course design and project management, curriculum development, digital accessibility, learning technology integration, and evaluation. Some of my recent projects include:

    • Digital-physical experience design of blended healthcare programs (TAFE)
    • Cross-institutional co-design of a tech toolkit for learning designers (HE)
    • Research and reporting on developments in education and technology
    • Design and deployment of microcredentials for climate and sustainability
  • 2024–NOW

    Doctoral Candidate
    RMIT University | Social Equity Research Centre


    What I do

    I’m currently completing a PhD within RMIT’s Social Equity Research Centre, exploring the value of digitally-mediated learning across the life course. I research and write about education, sociology and philosophy.

  • 2022–NOW

    Academic Teacher, Education
    Monash University | Monash Online


    What I do

    I teach and assess within the Graduate Certificate of Educational Design. Subjects include educational design, pedagogical and technological innovation, digital content design, collaborative learning and interaction

    I received the Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

  • 2021–NOW

    Board of Directors
    The Sunflower Foundation (Australia)


    What I do

    The Sunflower Foundation awards grants to power grassroots girls’ education programs in developing countries. We seek individual and corporate donations to fund the education of young women in low-resource environments.

    My role is focused on communication and fundraising efforts, including maintenance of the website and campaigns to boost partner profiles.

  • 2024–2025

    Lead, Learning Experience Design
    RMIT Online | Strategic Workforce Development


    What I did

    Strategic advice, design, development and project management of custom learning programs for workforce development. Projects included government, corporate and education professional learning programs.

  • 2022–2023

    Senior Learning Experience Designer
    RMIT Online


    What I did
    • Led the design of online course development, including postgraduate, undergraduate, professional and career development programs.
    • Led and implemented all phases of the design process, from scoping and concept design to team leadership to quality assurance.
  • 2020–2021

    Senior Digital Learning Designer
    Deakin University | Organisational Development


    What I did
    • Stakeholder relationship management across academic, research and professional portfolios to secure endorsement and drive co-design of strategic organisational development initiatives
    • Digital transformation of face-to-face staff capability programs during the rapid transition to remote practice
    • Collaborative design and development of digitally-enriched capability program for 200+ leadership staff
    • Design and development of digital courseware for staff learning
    • Leading implementation of streamlined training suite for all academic and professional staff
    • Data wrangling for efficient and accurate program reporting, for both online and blended learning programs
    • Member of Deakin’s Digital Accessibility Steering Committee
  • 2018–2019

    Manager, Learning Design and Professional Development
    Pearson Australia


    What I did
    • Led teams of learning designers and digital media developers to produce online courseware
    • Established design standards and systems for design team
    • Successfully delivered commercial learning projects
    • Initiated a professional development curriculum for academics new to wholly-online teaching
    • Led design on professional development courseware for both digital and face-to-face delivery
  • 2017–2018

    Product Development Lead
    Chisholm Institute | Chisholm Online


    What I did
    • Led the learning design team to develop online courseware, with a focus on innovative assessment, program structure and learning technology implementation
    • Built industry partnerships to create real work-ready learning experiences for Chisholm Online students
    • Managed implementation of software solutions for learning experience design, e-facilitation, digital storage, project management, team collaboration and workflow management
  • 2017–2017

    Learning Designer
    Swinburne University of Technology


    What I did
    • Developed practical trades assessments and interactive learning objects for mobile-enabled apprenticeship
    • Trained and coached the team in learning design and authoring software
    • Authored processes for courseware development
  • 2016–2017

    Instructional designer
    Pearson Trueman & Associates


    What I did
    • Corporate and government L&D projects
    • Training Needs Analysis for 100+ members of a national leadership team
    • Accessibility review and technical refinement of elearning courseware
    • Training delivery to L&D staff (instructional design techniques and software)
  • 2014–2016

    Instructional designer
    Chisholm Institute | Chisholm Online


    What I did
    • Designed digital learning and assessment resources for online vocational courses, in collaboration with SMEs, VET trainers and other stakeholders
      Development and implementation of learning design style guide and courseware templates
    • VET quality assurance of assessment and courseware resources

Education

2024–2027
Doctor of Philosophy, Global, Urban and Social Studies
RMIT University

2020–2022
Master of Education, Equity, Diversity and Social Change
University of Melbourne

2020–2021
Graduate Certificate in Evaluation
University of Melbourne

2015–2016
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40110)
Chisholm Institute

2010–2011
Master of Publishing and Editing

Monash University

2006–2008
Bachelor of Arts, Professional Writing, Film and Video
Deakin University

2006
Film & Television Foundations
Victorian College of the Arts


Recent publications

Reynoldson, M. & Farago, A. (In press). Shut Up And Write Online: affective atmospheres and postdigital pedagogies of care. In N. Lemon, A. Bolzle, M. Santa Cruz, & R. Saunders (Eds.), Shut Up and Write: Cultivating Wellbeing in Academic Communities. Routledge.

Reynoldson, M. (2025). Class of 2025: a speculative biography of university graduate futures. Learning, Media and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2516509

Reynoldson, M. (2025, March 25). Game changers: Can a return to playfulness help rewrite society’s rules? The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.ljrv2057  

Reynoldson, M. (2025). Narrative value theory: an educational biography as an iterative theory-of-self. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 44(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2024.2394543

Reynoldson, M. (2023). Making education count: How a focus on quantitative metrics threatens the very purpose of learning, Sociological Review Magazine, Numbers. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.ezjn5777

Reynoldson, M. (2023). Marketing micro-credentials: An analysis of actors, voices and messages in educational innovation discourse. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 60(6). https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2022.2083657


Recent presentations

Reynoldson, M. (2025, February 21). Wild Web: Lifelong learning and teaching in times of digital ubiquity [Conference Presentation]. Education After the Algorithm: Co-designing critical and creative futures. Dublin City University, Dublin.

Reynoldson, M. (2024, December 1). From third space to shared space: A speculative renovation of university role architecture [Conference Presentation]. ASCILITE Third Space Symposium 2024. University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

Abramson, P. & Reynoldson, M. (2024, December 1). Beyond the binary: Third space allyship and equity in the academy [Conference Presentation]. ASCILITE Third Space Symposium 2024. University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

Reynoldson, M. (2024, July 16-17). Wilde Uncertainty: on knowing where we are going [Poster Presentation]. #ShrugCon 2024 “In Search of a Pedagogy of Abundance: Preparing Students for an Uncertain Future”. Ontario, Canada. 

Reynoldson, M. & Nottingham, A. (2023). Enhancing the assessment experience at RMIT Online [Conference Presentation]. RMIT Teaching & Learning Festival 2023: It takes a village. RMIT University, Melbourne.

Reynoldson, M. (2022, October 26). Lifelong learning narratives: ePortfolios for sensemaking and storytelling [Conference Presentation], ePortfolio Forum 2022, University of Melbourne.