Inquiry is a digital product that provides a collaborative platform for research through teacher inquiry. Inquiries can be individual or collaborative and each investigates a range of important issues that affect the educational outcomes of the learners within the community.
An inquiry will explore many directions during its course and the outcome is the result of the evaluation of a number of possible pathways. Our product allows these pathways to be easily and rapidly explored within a structured, simple and cohesive environment. Reviewers can easily pick up and follow an inquiry through its journey, offering direction or feedback at appropriate junctures.
Through analysis of data created by inquiry, the community is able to identify trends, use insights to develop learning strategies, and drive forward engagement within the community.
What Dan has been able to create has far exceeded our expectations. He was able to bring our vision to fruition. His ability to plan, test and design for a totally unique database that is driven by the experiences of our teachers has been exemplary. Any issues or changes that we discovered through testing phases have been actioned quickly - as well as Dan offering suggestions to future proof this powerful tool - creating something that will sustain the knowledge learned within our community for future researchers and learners.
In conjunction to this quite phenomenal work on our knowledge database, Dan has created a community web-portal that gives our greater community the ability to see and understand the work that is happening on behalf of the seven and a half thousand children within our community. Again, Dan did this through genuinely taking the time to understand who we are as a community, what drives us and what we value. We never felt that this was a ‘typical’ solution that was being tweaked for us. This digital presence Dan has created for Kōtuitui is designed with us, for us and to serve us, now and into the future. If you have the opportunity to work with Dan and his team, we feel 100% assured they will look after you, just as they continue to do for the Kōtuitui Community."
The Across CoL Team, Kōtuitui Kāhui Ako