https://jofdl.nz/index.php/JOFDL/issue/view/55The editorial focusses on we believe are mergent themes in ODFL. There are three primary studies, from Carolyn Rood and Michael Barbour entitled ‘Virtual Learning for Māori Students’, a reflection of sensemaking in a South African context from Piera Biccard
The 30th ICDE World Conference will be held in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand from 10 to 13 November 2025. The theme for the conference is Ako: Exchanging ideas for inclusive, scalable, and sustainable education. The conference takes the Māori concept of ‘ako’ (or reciprocity in
Posted on 28 August 2024 at Open Polytechnic Open Polytechnic, a business division of Te Pūkenga, and New Zealand’s leading tertiary online learning institution, is proud to sponsor and be involved in this year’s Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ)
Final day of the 2024 Conference closed today. It was a fascinating academic programme, rich in diversity. The final session of the day explored the future of FLANZ, and President Nathaniel Louwrens facilitated an open dialogue with delegates. Collectively the
Over two and half days of the FLANZ Conference in Auckland there has been lots of conversations, meeting or minds, polite disagreements, and networking amongst delegates. We can’t claim that deals were done but there was certainly some lively discourse.
Ob3 is a reconceptualisation of dialogue and engagement around learning content. Explore this dynamic technological innovation here FLANZ was grateful for the contribution of Ob3 to this years conference.
Dr Xin Huang (Open Polytechnic) ran a fascinating, reflective and reaffirming workshop for delegates in which participants were introduced to the basics of Chinese calligraphy. It was a designed as a respite, but generated some intense conversation about cultural perspectives
Day one of the FLANZ conference kicked off with Associate Professor Rhys Jones’s keynote ‘Radical flexibility: centring relationality and justice in pursuit of emancipatory education’. Touching on pedagogies of discomfort, confronting colonialism and kaupapa Māori pedagogies. In the context of
We are delighted to announce that Anthology is a Conference Sponsor for the 2024 FLANZ biennial conference to be held at the Grafton Campus of University of Auckland from the 26-28 August. Anthology, probably best know in our community as
