Educators today face a confusing landscape of competing pedagogical approaches – each claiming to offer the answer to effective learning. Project-based learning, competency-based education, learner agency, futures literacy – these […]
Our education system stands at a critical juncture. Despite declarations of intent to create an inclusive, learner-centred system, we remain tethered to outdated paradigms that fail our tamariki and rangatahi. […]
About This Report Characteristics of a Future-Ready Education System explores five foundational pou that can help guide the design and development of education in Aotearoa New Zealand for the years […]
About This Report The 2026 Education Environment Scan is the second edition of a resource first published by FutureMakers in 2022. It is designed to help educational leaders, policymakers, and […]
This paper provides an analysis of the responses received through submissions to an online survey posted on the FutureMakers website in early 2023. An initial attempt to design a survey […]
A toolkit for strategic resilience planning REVISED VERSION AVAILABLE – after several requests from and conversations with educators following the release of the original paper in January 2023, I have […]
This paper provides guidance for school leaders as they seek to work with their staff and communities to design the systems, structures and processes required to ensure they are able […]
Hybrid learning has emerged as a focus for many schools and education systems in the wake of the COVID-19 disruption. The benefits of pursuing such approaches go far beyond being […]
We live in an era of accelerating change, affecting every sphere of human existence. Globally we are faced with unprecedented challenges including climate change, environmental degradation, global pandemics, poverty, political […]
This paper brings focus to the work of teachers in a hybrid approach – their pedagogical practice. It provides a practical approach to considering what is required in order to […]
Getting Started With Hybrid Learning: A teacher guideThis document provides some practical advice and guidance for educators faced with the challenge of having to deal with students learning from home and in […]
Resilience Planning for Schools in an age of COVID-19 This paper provides a framework for considering what options a school might consider to be adequately prepared for this eventuality, proposing […]
This report provides a comprehensive overview of over 40 national and international research reports that were completed in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic caused schools to close and moved teaching […]
This document provides perspectives on the broader context of the work, and the digital environment that today’s and tomorrow’s students will be entering throughout their lives and careers. The paper […]
This paper presents a case for bringing initiatives such as the VLN into the ‘mainstream’ of our education system in New Zealand. The significant question that this report addresses is […]
The Virtual Learning Network in New Zealand: History and Future ThoughtsThe Virtual Learning Network has operated in New Zealand for over thirty years as a collaboration among clusters of schools […]
The Virtual Learning Network in New Zealand: History and Future ThoughtsThe Virtual Learning Network has operated in New Zealand for over thirty years as a collaboration among clusters of schools […]
Part two of a series: Leveraging the potential of digital in a post COVID-19 world. The focus of this paper began with thinking about two questions,1. what are the characteristics of […]
Part three of a series: Leveraging the potential of digital in a post COVID-19 world.The focus of this paper is on what is driving the adoption and use of digital […]
Part four of a series: Leveraging the potential of digital in a post COVID-19 world.This document provides an overview of the ways in which digital technologies are being used currently across […]
Virtual Learning as an Impetus for Educational Change. Michael Barbour and Derek Wenmoth, 2013. This document was originally published by CORE Education who supported the research that was undertaken for […]
