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Dr. Tawnya Means is the Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation and Chief Learning Officer at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. With more than 20 years of experience in higher education, course design, and educational consulting, Tawnya has led teaching and learning teams and taught residential, online, and blended courses in entrepreneurship, strategy, technology, and leadership in remote teams. Her research interests include online and blended learning, active learning, learning space design, technology innovation in teaching, access to digital learning resources, generative AI for education, and faculty preparation to teach.

Tegan has been part of the award-winning Learning Design team at OES for the last six years. In her current role as Lead Learning Designer, Tegan draws on research, data analytics and user experience to achieve best practice learning experiences through innovative solutions. Tegan brings a wealth of experience, from teaching across secondary, tertiary and TAFE contexts in Australia, to designing immersive, interactive online and blended courses for OES's partners, and previously leading OES's simulations and virtual reality services. Tegan is passionate about designing learning experiences that work not only for the learners but for academic and professional staff as well.

Haanim Galvaan was a Learning Architect and a valued member of the OES Learning Design team, having driven learning design projects for prestigious institutions such as the University of Michigan and Georgetown Law. She holds a bachelor's degree in Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Town. Haanim specialises in program development, learning architecture, and strategy.

In his role as Lead Learning Designer at OES, Jesse leverages his knowledge of online pedagogy for adult learners and technical capabilities of LMS systems to drive best practices for online learning, most specifically in the postgraduate space. Jesse comes from a teaching background specialising in International Education, ESL, and Learning Design having assisted tertiary education institutions in four countries. Jesse enjoys having a strong influence on assessment design and content development through workshopping best practices based on the most up-to-date research on online pedagogy and constantly trying out new technologies to increase student engagement.