Te Pūkenga business divisions can access Open Polytechnic digital courseware free of charge to support their current or new delivery models. Digital courseware is available for re-use via each business divisions own dedicated iQualify LMS environment.
Access to courseware is managed by iQualify, Open Polytechnic’s digital support arm for network partners. iQualify also provide support and training on using iQualify for your kaimahi.
Find out more about support for network partners
Courses are designed for asynchronous (self-paced) independent learning. They are textbook-independent and based on a series of topics that align to a consistent learning design model. Courses are designed to provide a narrative scaffold for ākonga within a deliberate overall course structure, and to provide a steady study workload.
Courses are white-labelled, that is, course materials aim to make no mention of the authoring institution.
All iQualify courses are developed by expert teams, including subject matter experts working with learning designers supervised by a principal learning designer.
All courses have undergone:
Take a look at the Qualification and courses pages on the Open Polytechnic website to see all the programmes and courses currently on offer.
Images and or videos, contained within this course, that are the copyright of Getty images must not be extracted and re-used under Open Polytechnic’s current license agreement. They can be re-used as they are in the iQualify course but must not be removed and re-used outside of the iQualify course as Getty considers it as removing it from an electronic template.
Republishing or using Open Polytechnic’s Digital Course Materials or any part thereof outside of iQualify LMS is prohibited. This includes copying materials to other Learning Management Systems or creating paper-based learning resources.
Open Polytechnic digital courseware shared with Te Pūkenga divisions should not be used for distance delivery.
If your intended use doesn’t meet these conditions and you would like to discuss possible options further please contact servicehub@openpolytechnic.ac.nz
Three categories of assessments have been determined. If we are able to share assessments, we will let you know which category each assessment is in.
Can be reused. Some of our assessments are generic or situated enough to be shared with confidence.
Must be amended. The assessment can be reused provided it is localised or modified to change the tasks.
Cannot be reused. The assessments are provided as reference points only and cannot be used as is, or as the basis for a modified assessment. Examples here might include exams and tests. We may choose to simply withhold these assessments entirely.
Once you’ve decided which course you want to access, request access by completing this form.
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