The report outlines the services, events, and support we provided to the diverse tertiary education and training sector of Aotearoa New Zealand in the past year.
Rapidly moving beyond the impact of Covid-19 and responding to increasing demand, 2022 proved an extremely busy and successful year for the Ako Aotearoa team. This was the third year of our three-year business plan focused on five strategic goals that aligned the Centre’s key priorities to the Tertiary Education Strategy:
“While we set challenging goals, it is testament to the strength of our partnerships, networks and experts working alongside the Ako Aotearoa team, that we were able to fulfil many of our ambitions for the sector in 2022,” says Tumuaki/Director Helen Lomax.
Highlights include the following:
PLD participants
Participants of our General PLD programme increased by 31% to 2,435. The ‘top performer’ of the programme was the ‘Te Tiriti o Waitangi a visual history’ workshop.
Manako PLD participants
The Manako PLD programme saw an 86% increase in participants (from 702 in 2021 to 1,308 in 2022).
Digital badges
964 Ako Aotearoa Digital Badges were awarded for PLD course completion, which is a 97% increase on 2021. These micro-credentials add value to the PLD experience as they help participants exhibit verified skills and share their achievements with wider networks online.
Te Whatu Kairangi
The Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards were redesigned and relaunched as Te Whatu Kairangi, the Aotearoa Tertiary Educator Awards. The new Pacific Award – Le Moana Mua – was also launched in December 2022.
First DFQM ceremony
We hosted our first online ceremony to award the first six tertiary organisations with the Dyslexia-Friendly Quality Mark. Two more organisations gained the DFQM later in the year.
Tuia Te Ako
The Tuia Te Ako online hui “Tuia Te Tiriti” had 627 attendees across its two-day programme and reached 3,237 additional listeners. This was successfully achieved for the first time as livestream broadcast via Radio Kahungunu across the iwi-based radio community.
Communities of Practice
The combined memberships of our Manako, Neurodiversity and Online together CoPs increased by 15% compared with the previous year (from 1,150 in 2021 to 1,322 in 2022). These spaces have been important for relationship building and sharing of valuable teaching and learning practice and information.
We are enormously proud to be continuing our work to support the sector in 2023.
Find out more about Ako Aotearoa’s work in 2022 in the Our Publications section of our website.