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Featured Session 1, Tertiary Education and Skills Minister

Morning Tea

Setting the Scene / Exhibitor Turbo Pitch

We are inviting all exhibitors to promote their brand directly to our conference delegates with a 45-second ‘turbo presentation’. This is based on the PechaKucha style of presenting by showing 3 slides, with a 15 second commentary for each slide, totalling 45 seconds.

Featured Session 2, Tertiary Education Commission - Chief Executive

Breakout Session: Where is your leadership anchored?

There are a plethora of leadership models and courses available to us. They can focus on personality and behaviour, dealing with different situations, and getting your team aligned. At the ITENZ session, we're going to dig a bit deeper and explore foundational assumptions and mis representations about what business really is and how your conscious and unconscious beliefs about this influences the way you lead. You'll be encouraged to explore your own north star and create a ballast to stabilize your decisions and make leadership less stressful.

Breakout Session: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool in Course Content Design

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming nearly every industry, education is no exception. The education sector faces a dual challenge: educators and providers must navigate the changes, improvements, opportunities, and risks AI presents, while ensuring that education remains relevant, meets industry needs, and equips graduates with future-ready skills. This session will explore the critical role of AI in curriculum and course content design. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of AI technologies and their implications for education, examining how AI can revolutionise teaching and learning processes. The presentation will introduce various AI tools available to the education sector, offering a comparative analysis of their functionalities and benefits.

Breakout Session: Going online! The process of strengthening tertiary teaching qualifications with online learning.

Even before COVID-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle forced a seismic change in the landscape of tertiary education in Aotearoa, a diminishing number of learners were able to commit to the traditional classroom model of education and training. People Potential recognised that in order to increase enrolments, engagement and course completion, they needed to embrace blended learning to augment their traditional teaching provision, and turned to Pipi Learning for support and guidance. The process of developing online content for the newly updated NZ Certificate of Adult Tertiary Teaching (NZCATT) began by working together to identify the drivers behind the move online and creating a project framework: 1. Outcome: What is the eLearning for? 2. Audience: Who is the eLearning for? 3. Inclusivity: How can we include the most people? 4. Design: How can we engage the most people? 5. Accessibility: How can we reach the most people? Pipi helped People Potential to create an outline for the number of modules to support each section of the course, along with the content of each module. Pipi then used the project outline to create the first module iteration using Articulate 360. Each module had a three-stage review process, enabling both Pipi and People Potential to add, remove, rearranged or rewrite content to suit the course structure and content. Gaps in content could easily be identified and rectified as each module was developed, but it soon became clear that imagery was key to creating the vision for this suite of modules. Inclusivity was paramount for People Potential, and they embraced the opportunity to reflect the culture of their organisation in the images used throughout the modules.

Lunch

Featured Session 3, Sliding Doors: Education and Productivity

The system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. ConCOVE is changing the game and helping education shape a better future.

Breakout Session: Incorporating Generative AI into Education: Lessons Learned and Best Practices

Mission Ready has integrated generative AI in its Tech Career Accelerator education program since 2023. In this session, Alan provides an insightful exploration into the best practices and key learnings gained from the integration. Alan will detail the strategic deployment of generative AI tools within course curricula, focusing on identifying and leveraging AI to enhance learner engagement, and foster creative problem-solving. He will also discuss essential mindset shifts that educators can adopt to maximise the benefits of AI in education. Additionally, the session will deliver the latest updates on advancements in generative AI, ensuring that educators and management remain at the forefront of technological innovation. This part of the presentation is crafted to arm attendees with cutting-edge tools and knowledge, empowering them to effectively strategise the incorporation of these innovations into their educational environments.

Breakout Session: Leveraging technology to simplify compliance

The presentation will outline the current compliance obligations common to PTEs in New Zealand. We will then focus on the areas that QED has identified as either taking up significant amounts of internal resources for its clients or where the data is not recorded with sufficient detail or frequency to fully meet the regulatory requirements. We will then outline how a typical PTE might have a few key people using a manual system to deal with compliance and show the risks in this approach, especially in relation to capability building and business continuity. This will then be analysed to show the possible financial impact of the compliance regime on PTEs under normal and stressed scenarios, highlighting some of the risks that PTEs may be unaware of. We will look at how technology can be used to - Simplify manual processes - Reduce risk - Lower costs; and - Improve insights and process improvement Finally, we talk about our case study with Professional IQ College and how we brought QED’s expertise to bear to implement a comprehensive, digitised Compliance Assurance Programme (CAP), and what this meant for PIQ and how this can benefit other PTEs.

Breakout Session, Staying Ahead of the Curve: Agile Strategies for Rapid Market Response in the PTE sector

This is a dynamic panel discussion designed to share good practice and empower Private Training Establishments (PTEs). This event will explore actionable strategies PTEs can control and innovate to remain competitive in a fast-evolving market. Our expert panel will share insights highlighting practical approaches to enhancing adaptability, fostering innovation, and optimizing operations.

Afternoon Tea

Breakout Session: Tahatū – helping you to help your learners make informed career decisions

The TEC team will present a live demo of Tahatū, the new interactive careers website which TEC is developing in consultation with the education community, careers practitioners, students and whānau. Tahatū is the next generation of the current careers.govt.nz website, refreshing the best of its content, tools and functions. The team will walk participants through the new careers planning tool ‘Inspire me’ and introduce the suite of kaupapa Māori career ideas, where te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and mātauranga Māori are at their centre. The team will highlight the value of Tahatū in the current tertiary environment and how it connects NCEA subjects, qualifications and career ideas in one place to help learners make informed career decisions and discover the best way to get there.

Breakout Session: Te Wao Toi Whānui (The Toi Whānui Forest) - incorporating industry voice into digital workforce training

Toi Mai Workforce Development Council has released the first vocational workforce development plan for the digital technologies sector, Te Wao Toi Whānui. The plan, developed with qualitative engagement with industry, peak bodies, and consultation with providers, and supported with quantitative data, sets out two main actions and two main recommendations which have wide implications for training, particularly PTEs, who currently teach 50% of learners in the sector. The plan highlights the lack of diversity in the sector, the need for alternative training pathways, the need for more work-based learning opportunities, and alignment with industry demand. The actions include: 1. Toi Mai will review existing qualifications and develop new products to promote opportunities for work-based learning, foundation skills and flexibility in provision. 2. Toi Mai will set progressive workforce targets and improve quality of data sources to enable workforce mapping The recommendations include: 1. Facilitate growth of a diverse workforce through work-based learning and new delivery options. 2. Improve coordination of training and industry initiatives to achieve better outcomes. The presentation will discuss the findings and insights of the plan, and how Toi Mai will engage and work with providers to incorporate the insights as technology qualifications are reviewed.

Breakout Session: Work Integrated Learning: the key to vocational skills transformation and why this is not sufficiently valued by many educators, providers and policy makers.

The work integrated learning spectrum. The evolution away from work integrated learning in New Zealand tertiary provision and comparison with benchmark countries. Why work integrated learning is not 'arranging training' and thoughts on why much of the old industry training system was neither. Why the RoVE emphasis on work-based learning was on the right track and the risks in any significant policy reset. Personal observations on effective work integrated learning practice. Why do educators, providers and policy makers seem to find work integrated learning so hard? Some thoughts on how leaders and policy makers can overcome these barriers.

Featured Session: Ako Aotearoa, Driving lasting impact for and with our stakeholders to advantage Aotearoa New Zealand

Offsite Networking and Awards function