Hi, I'm Deniese
I research, create, and delivery every bit of this myself.
That includes doing the hands-on research, so you don't have to.
I came to education after a career in the resources industry, starting in vocational training and workplace L&D in 2012. For more than a decade since, I've worked directly with educators and learners to find out what actually keeps people engaged in their learning, and what quietly loses them.
It began with an uncomfortable finding from my doctorate: every educator I studied carried a gap between the practice they believed in and the practice they could actually deliver. I've spent the years since helping close that gap for educators, and their learners, with tested, practical strategies that hold up in real classrooms and real online courses, not just on paper.
Why it's just me you see, and why that matters
When you work with me, you get me. The same person who does the research walks your courses with your team, presents the videos and runs the live sessions. Your team is never handed between rotating facilitators, and I record every video myself.
But “just me” doesn’t mean small. Behind the scenes I run my own in-house research team, testing strategies with control groups and real validation before any of it becomes advice. My work has been commissioned by national bodies including NCVER and ASQA, and my professional development has supported more than 12,000 educators across vocational education, higher education and workplace L&D. TAFEs across the country are now into their third and fourth year with me.
In short, you get the trust and consistency of one expert, with the rigour and reach of a serious research operation.
Dr Deniese Cox is an award-winning researcher and one of Australia’s leading authorities on learner engagement and online education. She has taught learning design at master’s level and presented one of Australia’s first Bachelor of Education subjects on online pedagogy, before the pandemic made that expertise urgently necessary across the sector.
Since 2020 she has focused on investigating what does and doesn’t work for today’s adult learners, and she draws on that work to deliver tested, practical strategies with real impact. She holds a PhD from Griffith University in vocational education in online contexts, an MBA and a Master of Learning and Development, and her professional development has supported more than 12,000 educators across Australia. She is the creator of the Intentional Learning Framework™.
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PhD in online education
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Masters in Learning & Development
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MBA (Hon)
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2023 ODLAA award for VET research
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Top-rated presenter at NVC, multiple years
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Creator of the Intentional Learning FrameworkTM
Working across many courses or teams?
An 'ongoing review partnership' gives you a set amount of my time across the year, used stage by stage as your priorities evolve.
