NetNZ is a community of schools from across New Zealand who work together to provide online learning opportunities for their students based on the New Zealand Curriculum.

There are a number of ways of obtaining enrolment places in our programmes.

Ashburton College principal Ross Preece, explains the positive differences he encounters using NetNZ as opposed to other distance learning models.

Deputy Principal of Ashburton College Jono Hay explains the reciprocal relationship between Ashburton College and NetNZ.

Anne William's from Ashburton College overviews how they use NetNZ

Hi everyone, my name is Elise. I am Year 12 at Wakatipu High School in cold-old Queenstown and this is my second year in NetNZ’s philosophy course.

Kia ōra, my name is Tayla. I am a Year 13 student at Fiordland College in Te Anau, and this is my third year in NetNZ’s Economics course.

Our L3 Psychology teachers, Zara and Ange work together to meet the needs of over 40 students. There are no walls online so why create them?

NetNZ has been working with Chris Clay and We Create Futures to fully explore future possibilities so that we place ourselves in an sustainable and influential position. This involves scanning our current context to ensure we have a thorough understanding of what is emerging. The trends and patterns. The challenges and opportunities.

I decided to do online Art History in year 13 because nothing else would fit in my timetable. I had never taken it before and was prepared for it to be dry and hard to engage with. Instead, it was one of my favourite subjects – and the learning was all online.

Are we missing the point when we extol the virtues of online learning?

Roslyn McLean tells us about her experience of learning Art History online with NetNZ (Art History provided by Westland High School).

Anne Williams, edean at Ashburton College explains how Ashburton College supports its online learners.

We have learnt so much from our recent experience(s) in lockdown, but have we fully grasped all possiblities?

"We know the rules of community; we know the healing effect of community in terms of individual lives. If we could somehow find a way across the bridge of our knowledge, would not these same rules have a healing effect upon our world?

Ashburton College Art History teacher, Nicky Lewis explains what teaching with NetNZ is like.

NetNZ Students at Ashburton College describe the experience

Kia ora my name is Oak. I am a year 11 homeschooler, and this is my first year studying with NetNZ online, I am enrolled in NetNZ’s philosophy course for 2018. I am a passionate Shakespeare fan and I love all things algebra.

Founding Principal, Carol Moffat (Oxford Area School) talks the origins of the first eLearning cluster, CantaTech

This course encourages effective communication in listening and responding, speaking and presenting, interacting, viewing/reading and writing.

This course explores the question of write and wrong with reference to a contemporary ethical issue of the student's choice.

Earlier this year, Professor Kwok-Wing Lai, of the University of Otago completed academic research on the pedagogical practices of NetNZ teachers