Built for the world your students are entering.
The systems universities run on were designed for a different era - content delivered, completion recorded. Madgwick was built for this one: students who need capability they can prove, and learning AI can't hollow out.
Designed for the questions universities are asking now.
How do you teach when AI can do the assignments?
Every lesson is underpinned by Earned Learning - the published pedagogy that keeps productive friction in place, so capability is built, not bypassed.
How do you prove learning actually happened?
Layered, non-invasive assurance - an auditable evidence trail your boards and regulators can stand behind. No surveillance.
How do you keep degrees relevant and affordable?
Content that moves with the field, learning shaped to every student, and AI absorbing the cost of scale.
Built by academics, on a published pedagogy.
Earned Learning is a formalised research framework, led by academics and shaped by teaching staff across a university: remove the friction that blocks learning, preserve the friction that builds it. Not to make learning easier - to make the right parts harder to bypass.
Students reason, explain, defend and apply. The AI never hands over the answer.
Read more on Earned Learning →It winds the clock back for academics.
When education scaled, the relationship was what it cost. AI makes it possible to turn that back: the repetitive load moves to the machine, and academics return to what they were always meant to do - think with students, challenge them, mentor them, know them.
The model is designed to increase academic time spent in direct engagement with students. That is not a feature. It is the point.
A degree that moves with the world
AI surfaces what's new, academics review and approve. The credential and standards don't change - the learning underneath stays alive.
Start anytime, finish anytime - if you decide
Progress is tied to demonstrated capability, not calendar time. The platform supports the model; the university sets the policy.
The business case is belonging.
Belonging is the strongest predictor of persistence in online learning: students who feel isolated leave, students who feel connected stay. The Commons weaves connection through every unit - live sessions, peer learning, academic guidance - with intervention triggers that flag disengagement before it becomes withdrawal.
Personalisation at scale reaches every student - not just those who can pay for the advantage.
A platform born from a decision to protect equity students is, unsurprisingly, built to retain them.
White-label, modular, at your pace.
Deployed under your brand, governed by your academics. Start with a pilot unit, a short course or a bridging program - or a whole-of-institution partnership. It meets you where you are.
Madgwick is developed by LabNext70 at the University of New England, Australia - and it is live, delivering the first university units now - evidence first, expansion second. Real students, real academics, real governance. Only a university could have built this.
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