Lecturer and Head of Interior Design
Qualifications
Research interests
Biography
Maretha Geyser is the Head of Interior Design at IIE Emeris Vega School and a researcher specialising in design pedagogy and curriculum innovation. She holds a BSc in Interior Architecture, a BInterior Design Honours, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education and is currently completing a Master of Education in Information and Communication Technology at the University of Johannesburg. Her dissertation, Reimagining Online Interior Design Studio Pedagogy: Postdigital Design Principles for South African Higher Education, critically responds to the growing demand for online design programmes following the COVID-19 pandemic. While interior design education is traditionally rooted in studio-based, constructivist, and learning-by-doing approaches, emerging literature highlights the risks of simply replicating face-to-face studio models online. Maretha’s research addresses this gap by exploring how postdigital theory can inform online studio pedagogy while preserving its collaborative, socio-material and process-oriented nature.
Her current research interests also include microlearning and cognitive apprenticeship, postdigital frameworks for responsive and disruptive assessment and authentic approaches to curriculum design in creative disciplines. She recently presented at DEFSA and developing a Postdigital Responsive Assessment Framework to support equitable, future-ready learning in design higher education.
Lecturer and Head of Interior Design
Qualifications
Research interests
Biography
Maretha Geyser is the Head of Interior Design at IIE Emeris Vega School and a researcher specialising in design pedagogy and curriculum innovation. She holds a BSc in Interior Architecture, a BInterior Design Honours, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education and is currently completing a Master of Education in Information and Communication Technology at the University of Johannesburg. Her dissertation, Reimagining Online Interior Design Studio Pedagogy: Postdigital Design Principles for South African Higher Education, critically responds to the growing demand for online design programmes following the COVID-19 pandemic. While interior design education is traditionally rooted in studio-based, constructivist, and learning-by-doing approaches, emerging literature highlights the risks of simply replicating face-to-face studio models online. Maretha’s research addresses this gap by exploring how postdigital theory can inform online studio pedagogy while preserving its collaborative, socio-material and process-oriented nature.
Her current research interests also include microlearning and cognitive apprenticeship, postdigital frameworks for responsive and disruptive assessment and authentic approaches to curriculum design in creative disciplines. She recently presented at DEFSA and developing a Postdigital Responsive Assessment Framework to support equitable, future-ready learning in design higher education.
An educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education
Formed by the strategic evolution of The IIE's Varsity College, IIE MSA, Vega and
the School of Hospitality and Service Management, uniting under the Emeris name.
Emeris is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd which is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997 (reg. no. 2007/HE07/002). Company registration number: 1987/004754/07. View certificate here.
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