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Annual Reports
- Tuia Te Hononga Tāngata, Tuia Te Hononga Ao: Taking the Pulse of Distance Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand (2023 School Year)
- Tuia Te Hononga Tāngata, Tuia Te Hononga Ao: Taking the Pulse of Distance Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand (2019-2022 School Years)
For an overview of the annual report, please review the “How To Read This Report” page.
Special Reports
In addition to the annual reports, the Tuia Te Hononga Tāngata, Tuia Te Hononga Ao: Taking the Pulse of Distance Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand project team has also written special reports on topics related to distance learning in the school sector in New Zealand. Some of these topics have been beyond the scope of content contained in the annual reports, and are released as separate documents. However, in other cases the special report was written by the project team prior to the Tuia Te Hononga Tāngata, Tuia Te Hononga Ao: Taking the Pulse of Distance Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand being formalised.
- Unbounded Learning – A Roadmap for a Future Focused Education Ecosystem in New Zealand (2025)
- Primary and Secondary e-Learning: Examining the Process of Achieving Maturity (2011)
Presentations
The results of the project has been presented in the following locations.
- Barbour, M. K., & Wenmoth, D. (2024, September). Tuia te hononga tāngata, tuia te hononga ao: Taking the pulse of distance learning in Aotearoa New Zealand [Webinar]. Education Partnership and Innovation Trust.
- Barbour, M. K., & Wenmoth, D. (2024, August). Tuia te hononga tāngata, tuia te hononga ao: Taking the pulse of distance learning in Aotearoa New Zealand [Paper]. Biennial Conference of the Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Barbour, M. K., & Wenmoth, D. (2024, August). Tuia te hononga tāngata, tuia te hononga ao: Taking the pulse of distance learning in Aotearoa New Zealand [Webinar]. Kōtuitui Online Teachers Network.
- Barbour, M. K., & Wenmoth, D. (2024, July). Tuia te hononga tāngata, tuia te hononga ao: Taking the pulse of distance learning in Aotearoa New Zealand [Webinar]. Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand.
- Barbour, M. K., & Wenmoth, D. (2024, May). Panel discussion – An exploration of distance/virtual learning in New Zealand [Webinar]. Education Partnership and Innovation Trust.
Other Publications
Finally, the authors have also published work related to this project in the following outlets.
- Barbour, M., & Wenmoth, D. (2025). Reimagining learning for Aotearoa New Zealand’s future education ecosystem: Four pillars and a potential roadmap. Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 29(1), 12-49. https://doi.org/10.61468/jofdl.v29i1.695
- Barbour, M. K., & Wenmoth, D. (2024). An exploration of the state of distance learning in New Zealand’s school sector. In Proceedings of the Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand Conference (pp. 1-13), Auckland, New Zealand. https://flanz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/flanz-proceedings-v9-spa-min.pdf
- Barbour, M. K., & Wenmoth, D. (2024). Tracing more than a century of distance learning in New Zealand schools: From correspondence to virtual networks. Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.61468/jofdl.v27i2.677