30 March 2021
The biggest opportunity for the Education sector and EdTechs over the last year has probably been remote learning at scale. This goes beyond simply delivering content and classes via video conferencing tools, and flips things from the model of distance learning merely being a PlanB, to digital learning being a viable and preferred option. To … Continue reading "COVID opportunity for Xero Learn"
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23 February 2021
Techweek2021 is fast approaching. This year’s theme is “Connecting for a Better Future”. The EdTechNZ team would love to see some education technology sessions and this year’s theme is well aligned to the EdTech sector. After all, Education is the foundation on which all of New Zealand will prosper and grow! If this is of interest, head to … Continue reading "COVID opportunity for Xero Learn"
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Xero’s cloud learning solution Xero Learn is an example of a success story which has emerged from the COVID-19 crisis. Xero Learn lead Michelle Taggart tells us more: Xero has seen a significant increase in adoption of cloud learning solutions through our EdTech tool, Xero Learn, and
June 22, 2020
This is the year for EdTech. Now more than ever there is the opportunity and the imperative to reshape how we deliver education. While the New Zealand education sector has responded well to the current challenges, it also saddens me a little to think that it took a world-changing event to trigger c
May 14, 2020
A new year and a new decade always presents the opportunity to look at things through a different lens and rethink our future. Here at EdTechNZ, we think now is that time for us. As part of this, it’s timely to remind our members that you will get out of your membership, what you put in. Graem
February 26, 2020
Ngā mihi readers, Thanks to some great work from David Glover, three EdTechNZ Executive Council members met with the Productivity Commission earlier this month to discuss their current inquiry into technological change and the future of work. The EdTechNZ Digital Skills
November 26, 2019
Nga mihi, The New Zealand Productivity Commission has released their first draft report New Zealand, technology and productivity which EdTechNZ made our own submission to earlier this year. David Glover, a member of the EdTechNZ Executive Council, had this to say:&nbs
October 22, 2019
Pauline Cleaver Pauline Cleaver - Associate Deputy Secretary of Early Learning Student Achievement at the Ministry of Education – outlines how New Zealand education is adapting for the digital world. In what’s being called the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the impact of automation on fu
October 16, 2019
Nga mihi readers, Spring is the season of new beginnings and so it is for EdTechNZ too. Last week at our Annual Meeting we announced EdTechNZ’s new Executive Council (EC), which is a blend of some of the old team alongside a diverse group of newly elected council members. Five of the c
September 25, 2019
Kia ora Readers, I am excited that EdTechNZ’s first working group, the Digital Skills Working Group, is officially up and running and we are now working with external stakeholders to further our objectives. The primary purpose of the working group is to help solve the digital skills gap by de
July 24, 2019
Ngā mihi reader, It has been a busy three weeks with four diversity and inclusion events, the last of which is tonight in Christchurch. EdTechNZ has collaborated with TechWomen to take the topic of diversity on the road. I want to acknowledge Eva Sherwood for cura
June 25, 2019