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Te Puna Aurei, the name gifted by Associate Professor Tom Roa, means a spring of intertwining knowledge. A puna is a spring of water and aurei is concept of threading things together. LearnFest is about threading together people, learning, research and current or emerging pedagogies.

This name also refers to the University's sculpture Aurei by Waikato Alumnus Rangi Kipa (pictured below). The sculpture sews together the past to the future aspirations. At a deeper level Aurei was inspired by a whakatauk墨 (M膩ori proverbial saying) from the first M膩ori king, K墨ngi P艒tatau: Kotahi to kohao o te ngira e kuhuna ai te miro m膩, te miro pango, te miro whero meaning there is but one eye of the needle which the white thread, black thread and red thread must pass.

You can watch video recordings of selected sessions from previous symposiums run by the Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning and Waikato Centre for eLearning (WCEL). 

and previous years.