Recent items in Ako Aotearoa Northern Hub

Mobile learning with location-aware, augmented-reality business games

This project included the development of a business game which was tested by students and teachers on two campuses. It contributed to improving the practicality and accessibility of mobile learning tools which can be used to improve engagement and achievement of undergraduate students in business and related disciplines.
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Supporting Academic Success by Minority Group Students in a Private Training Establishment

This report discusses the findings of an investigation into factors perceived by a group of Early Childhood Education students that supported their learning and influenced their qualification completion.
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Supporting academic success by minority group students in a private training establishment

The project aims to identify learning and teaching strategies successful with culturally and linguistically diverse students and make recommendations for good practice to the tertiary sector.
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‘Preparing the Portfolio’ Workshops for Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards 2012

Ako Aotearoa administers the Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards.
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Rethinking assessment for the science modules in the first year nursing programme

This 2011 report presents conclusions and some recommendations about how competency-based assessment of nursing science within tertiary environments might be enhanced.
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Rethinking assessment for the science modules in the first year nursing programme

This report presents conclusions and some recommendations about how competency-based assessment of nursing science within tertiary environments might be enhanced.
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Rethinking assessment for the science modules in the first year nursing programme

This research project investigated what tools could be used to assess evidence of the development of all aspects of science-informed competence in nursing education.
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SoTL workshop at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic

Continuing the drive to promote and encourage interest in and progress an institutional culture around the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in various places throughout the region, a workshop for staff was held at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic last wee
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Private providers' regional fora

Last week NZAPEP held regional meetings in both Auckland and Tauranga.
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Whakatane Learner Benefit Workshop

Last week the Northern Hub offered a further workshop in conjunction with Ace Aotearoa around ideas for collecting evidence of learner benefit in a report prepared for Ako Aotearoa by Anne Alkema (http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/collecting
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