Ako Aotearoa Synthesis reports
What are our Synthesis reports?
These resources aim to demonstrate the impact that Ako Aotearoa’s work has achieved, and, to share the vision for our future.
Ako Aotearoa is committed to improving teaching and learning within the tertiary sector in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our goal is to enhance teaching practice across the tertiary sector and to achieve the best possible educational outcomes for learners.
To ensure our services improve the way people deliver high-quality tertiary teaching, we get independent experts to review the impact of our work.
The resources on this page each review targeted areas of Ako Aotearoa funded work, and have been used by us to check the work we’re doing with the tertiary sector is bringing about lasting change in tertiary teaching and enhancing learner success.
Outcomes and learnings from these reports help us make informed decisions for our future work.
Key Points to Note:
Ako Aotearoa has a unique position in the tertiary education sector. We provide advocacy and leadership on all aspects of better teaching theory and practice. Our goal is always to encourage and enable excellent teachers to support the growth of capable and skilled learners who can contribute to society and the economy.
We support educators, teams and organisations to frame all that they do around the success of their learners, including in workplaces, universities, wānanga, institutes of technology and polytechnics, independent tertiary enterprises, and in adult and community education.
Understanding how we add value to Aotearoa New Zealand’s tertiary education sector through the work we have already undertaken is critical to our success in the future, and to the success of those we work with.
Promoting excellence, sharing good teaching practice and collaborating on good teaching and learning ideas have always been the key drivers of our activities. But supporting learner success in any tertiary sector or context is why we exist.
This report presents highlights and key findings from Ako Aotearoa funded projects that focused on supporting and developing Māori learner success.
- 10 October 2017
A research report prepared by Ako Aotearoa and Synapsys.
(PDF, 1.94 MB, 32-pages).
- 1 August 2018
A research report prepared by Martin Eadie, Chris Knol and Brigid Thorns. Published June 2010.
(PDF, 1.1MB, 74-pages).
- 1 June 2010
This report has been prepared to further the debate for the introduction of professional standards across the tertiary education sector in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- 14 February 2019
A report that presents highlights and key findings from projects that have been funded and co-funded by Ako Aotearoa to do with bridging education.
- 30 October 2017
This report provides a synthesis of the outcomes from thirty eight Ako Aotearoa projects engaging with the diverse implications of technology for New Zealand tertiary education.
- 28 February 2016
Synthesis report
Educating health practitioners | What works
This report provides a summary of Ako Aotearoa-funded projects that explore approaches to educating and assessing health practitioners.
- 30 May 2016
Synthesis report
Learning in and for work | Highlights from Ako Aotearoa Research
This report provides a summary of the factors that make for successful workplace learning for learners/trainees, their tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and their workplaces.
- 30 October 2014
This report provides a summary of the recurrent themes on what leads to improved outcomes for Pasifika learners in tertiary education, from research undertaken through Ako Aotearoa-funded projects between 2008 and 2013.
- 30 March 2014
A summary of two reports on the impact of Ako Aotearoa’s co-funded projects.
- 30 July 2017
This report aims to demonstrate the impact that Ako Aotearoa’s work has achieved over the past ten years, and, to share the vision for our future.
- 30 October 2017
Ako Aotearoa holds a vital place in Aotearoa New Zealand’s tertiary education sector. We are an agent of change for quality teaching and learner success.
Informing improved ways of teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand.