Chief Editor: Trish Chaplin-Cheyne
Trish Chaplin-Cheyne is the director of Te Ama Ako | Learning and Teaching Development at Otago Polytechnic | Te Kura Matatini ki Otago. She is responsible for the Learning and Teaching Development service team, who are tasked with ensuring that OP programmes and courses are designed to best practice standards; that academic staff have the full range of knowledge and skills needed to facilitate learner success; and that learners enjoy an outstanding experience with Otago Polytechnic. She is involved with facilitating on the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education and enjoys being in the classroom environment. Trish joined Otago Polytechnic in 2015, as a learning facilitator involved in the Designing for Learner Success initiative. Her areas of particular interest are curriculum and assessment design.
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Email: Trish Chaplin-Cheyne (Editor) and Megan Kitching (Editorial Assistant)
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The journal Scope (Learning & Teaching) is concerned with views, critical debate and reflections on learning and teaching theory and practice. It seeks to address current topical matters in the field of tertiary and vocational education. Its focus is on building a sense of community amongst researchers from an array of New Zealand institutions with the goal of linking with a wider international community.
ISSN: 1179-951X (hardcopy), ISSN: 1178- 9528 (online).
Scope (Learning & Teaching) 16 has an open theme.
Submissions to Trish Chaplin-Cheyne (Editor) and Megan Kitching (Editorial Assistant) by 30 April 2026.
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Special Issue: Learning Design
This special issue of Scope (Learning & Teaching) aims to explore contemporary topics in the field of Learning Design. Learning Design is gaining recognition as an evolving, standalone profession, distinct from the traditional view that it is merely a task undertaken by teachers. There is rapidly growing, worldwide audience for online learning, with educational technologies and platforms becoming increasingly available, accessible and AI-enabled. Student needs for social connection and community transcend these easy offerings and have led to the exploration of complementary approaches in design for online learning, including, but not limited to, the integration of Ako and other indigenous approaches.
Submissions will focus on applied theory and case studies; Aotearoa-NZ bicultural context; examples and critique; AI and its implications; narratives of learning designers and other related topics.
ISSN: 1179-951X (hardcopy), ISSN: 1178- 9528 (online).
Submissions to Trish Chaplin-Cheyne (Editor) and Megan Kitching (Editorial Assistant) by 31 May 2026.
Scope: Contemporary Research Topics is a series of peer-reviewed open access journals published annually online by Otago Polytechnic Press, with the print edition co-published with General Editions Studio.
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