Leigh and Xavier Middleton launched Mellivora Educational (previously Middleton Educational) as a way to support fellow lecturers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in producing quality content for their courses.

This initially took the form of using blended learning techniques, screencasts and taking full advantage of the respective institutions' Learner Management System (LMS) (e.g. Blackboard and Moodle).

During the fees-must-fall protests, it became clear that the future of tertiary education will hinge on a fine balancing wire between providing quality education, facing the challenges of our students and exploring new and exciting ways to provide our content and courses to our students.

Our desire to explore new ways to teach has been strengthened during the Covid-19 epidemic. During the Covid-19 lockdown, we explored with providing mobile-orientated content to our students (in other words, being mindful of m-learning techniques).

One example is through our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/PaleoXav) where our videos are of a reasonable length (between 5 - 10 mins), and lower-resolution and mobile-optimised versions (<20 Mb) are hosted on a Learner Management System.