Ako Aotearoa-funded projects supporting Māori educators and learners

• National Project Fund
• Regional Hub Project Fund

National Project Fund projects

• Te Hononga Mātauranga (October 2009)
  Provides a suite of on-line audio-visual resources for Māori post-graduate students. These resources offer information on topics such as effective writing, research, ethics, Māori development, te reo Māori, reviewing literature, and cataloguing.
  > visit the project space to find out more, or
  > visit Te Hononga Mātauranga Māori Doctoral Resource Portal

Regional Hub Project Fund

• Culturally relevant peer support for Māori and Pasifika student engagement, retention and success (December 2008) - Central Hub
  Catherine Ross, Open Polytechnic
  A programme of culturally relevant peer support was trialled with first-year Māori and Pasifika students studying in degree and diploma programmes at the Open Polytechnic > find out more
• Improving participation, retention and progression of Māori learners in the Whanganui region (April 2010) - Central Hub
  Gail Harrison - Whanganui Learning Centre Trust, with George Marshall and Aroha Beckham, Tupoho Whānau Trust
  This project investigated how two Private Training Establishments could improve the participation, retention and progression of Māori Tertiary Learners in the Whanganui Region> find out more
• Integrated assessment for Māori youth learners entering tertiary education for the first time (May 2011) - Central Hub
  Hannah Hohapata, Matapuna Training Centre
  This report provides insight from an action research project using a methodology of integrated assessment with Māori youth learners entering tertiary education for the first time > find out more
• Peer mentoring of at-distance students: A resource for tertiary institutions (January 2008) - Central Hub
  Tepora Pukepuke and Simon Nash, Massey University
  This resource is a practical guide for tertiary institutions establishing a student peer-mentoring project. It focuses on the peer mentoring of at-distance students but is also relevant to on-campus student mentoring, and offers particular guidance in the mentoring of Māori students > find out more> find out more
• Persuasive and affective SMS text messaging for students’ learning (May 2011) - Central Hub
  Dr Tiong-Thye Goh & Ms Liz Rawhiti – Victoria University of Wellington, Dr Boon Chong Seet – Auckland University of Technology
  This report presents the outcome of an experimental design to investigate the impact of persuasive and affective SMS text messages on students’ self-regulated learning strategies while attending an introductory information systems course, with a focus on supporting Māori and Pacific learners > find out more
• Reflections of attending Waitangi from the lead-up to Waitangi Day 2009 (March 2010) - Northern Hub
  Robin Tarau, Yvonne Langdon, Hariata Kohunui, Delia McKinnon, Waiariki Institute of Technology
  This project was an exploration of contemporary deliberations that occurred at the Waitangi Commemorations at Waitangi 2009 > find out more