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The impact of COVID-19 on the lifestyle of tertiary students in an NZ polytechnic
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2022-05-05)The COVID-19 pandemic altered people’s life dramatically worldwide, with major concerns in different economic, political, scientific, and public health aspects. The impact on the lifestyle behaviour of the young generation ... -
Unitec students create street furniture for an Auckland housing community during COVID
(New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA), 2022-03)A portion of the undergraduate course required students to individually design street furniture for Auranga’s Village Square. The brief required the students to utilise recycled timber offcuts found within the Auranga ... -
Pop the “maths anxiety” bubble: An approach to support nursing students to self-manage anxiety while studying drug calculation
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2021-12-16)This is a report on an informal action research undertaken between 2013 and 2014 to find solutions to support tertiary nursing students experiencing anxiety while studying drug calculation. The literature identifies ... -
Formative vs summative quizzes as regular feedback on Moodle in computer science courses: Which do students prefer?
(Unitec ePress, 2021-11-18)Deferred feedback on summative assessments can demotivate students and affect their overall learning performance, and it can change their study routines. The aim of this study is to compare and analyse students’ perceptions ... -
Puni Reo Poitarawhiti: Playing in te reo Māori
(Otago Polytechnic, 2021-11)In May 2018, the inaugural Puni Reo Poitarawhiti was held at Netball Waitäkere, West Auckland. The first Mäori language-only netball tournament of its kind, Puni Reo Poitarawhiti (PRP) was open to all schools (kura kaupapa ... -
The legitimisation of street art in visual arts education: Exploring the perspectives of five artists in New Zealand
(Education University of Hong Kong, 2021-09)Over the past decade, the phenomena known as ‘street art’ has flourished in the art world and become a prominent international art movement. This article extrapolates the fin dings from Hung’s PhD thesis from 2020, Hitting ... -
Face-to-face delivery this week; online the next: a reflection
(Emerald Publishing, 2021-08-16)PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the effects of online learning on student engagement as a result of a shift from face-to-face to online learning during the COVID-19 lockdown in New Zealand. DESIG ... -
Asynchronous instructional videos during COVID-19 emergency remote teaching: Student experiences within a New Zealand ITP
(Unitec ePress, 2021-08-02)The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for tertiary education institutions worldwide. The crisis placed enormous pressure on educational institutions as they were required to pivot suddenly to teaching fully ... -
Walking backwards into the future: Prophecy as an approach for embedding Indigenous values in tertiary education
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021-06-23)Indigenous peoples understand time differently to Pākehā (Rangiwai, 2021a). Mahuika (2010) maintains that the notion of walking backwards into the future is a common one for Māori and other people of the Pacific. Roberts ... -
Fostering group autonomy through collaborative learning in an online environment
(Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS), Chiba, Japan, 2021-03)Learner autonomy is recognised as being associated with effective and successful learning. Whilst significant scholarship has focused on individual learner autonomy, a review of the literature indicates that the interdependence ... -
An agent for change : a legacy of dance education in Aotearoa
(University of Waikato, 2021-01-21)Thirty-one years on from the founding of the National Diploma of Contemporary Dance (which is currently the Unitec Bachelor of Contemporary Dance—School of Performing and Screen Arts) this reflection celebrates the legacy ... -
E-learning and social media: Using Facebook to create an online community among applied social practice postgraduate students during a COVID-19 lockdown
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This paper will discuss the use of Facebook as a means for creating an online community to support e-learning among applied social practice postgraduate students in the School of Healthcare and Social Practice at Unitec ... -
An alternative approach to teaching architectural history: Redrawing the pedagogical boundaries between architectural history and design studio with flexible and blended methods
(Festival Architettura Edizioni, 2021)Through the presentation of a case study this paper advocates for the use of flexible and blended learning techniques to teach architectural history in a way that reinforces the connections between architectural history ... -
The Tāmaki Makaurau Associate Teacher Network
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Practicum experiences are critical to the professional journey of every student teacher as they attain their teaching qualification. It is the site of induction and mentoring, intended to support the student teacher in ... -
Are we building agile graduate capabilities to meet automotive service industry trends?
(ePress / Unitec, 2020-02-19)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can we secure the future professional competency of automotive technicians employed in the automotive service industry? ABSTRACT: The inexorable use of electronic technology and rising user ... -
清末留美 乐人考 Qing mo liu Mei yue ren kao (1900-1910) [= Chinese Students in the United States of America, 1900-1910]
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Culturally inclusive pedagogies of care : a narrative inquiry
(De Gruyter Open / University of Trnava, 2019-12-30)This paper is a reflection on culturally relevant pedagogies of care to achieve more equitable outcomes for diverse cultures within early childhood. The authors are academics at a tertiary institute in Auckland, New Zealand. ... -
Thought Space Wananga : a kaupapa Māori decolonizing approach to research translation
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2019-12-16)This paper discusses an indigenous Maori approach, named Thought Space Wānanga, for sharing knowledge and accelerating the translation of research into practical outcomes through transformational practices, policies, and ... -
Navigating learning worlds : using digital tools to learn in physical and virtual spaces
(Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), 2019-08-24)This article explores the various ways that teachers and learners can navigate different learning worlds with the support of digital tools. Increasingly, teaching and learning takes place in spaces beyond the classroom, ... -
Engaging children with educational content via gamification
(Springer Open, 2019-07-18)Gamification is the application of game mechanisms in non-gaming environments with the objective of enhancing user experience. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of gamification in an educational context, i.e. ...
