SC Industry Briefing

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Students_at_Centre Ultranet
Adam Todhunter Education Chief Information
Officer David Allibon Director Students_at_Centre
Project
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Agenda

• Welcome
• DET Architecture and direction
• What is Students_at_Centre?
• Why?
• Process and Timelines
• Questions

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Some Statistics

• Total user population of 579,515 comprised of
• 540,071 students
• 38,815 FTE teachers
• 12,542 non teaching staff
• 1,697 corporate staff
• 194,000 networked PCs in schools
• 40,163 Notebooks
• (7 Apple platform)

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Some Statistics

• Annual cost of 130m (excludes business unit
  IT investments)
• 300 servers in Central office
• 4TB disk centrally
• 3,280 servers in schools (ave 40Gb 131 TB!)
• Wireless in every school (circa 9,500 WAPs)
• 70,000 User email System (staff of 5 supporting)

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DET Applications 2003
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DET Applications 2005
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DET Applications 2005
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DET Applications 2005
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Desired End State
These components provide the user interfaces and
access points into the systems
User Interfaces
These components provide the functions that are
needed to support the activities of schools
Application Services
These components provide common application
services
Common Application Services
Data Management
These components provide access to the data
needed and support the management of that data
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Development of the Pilot

• Experience at Glen Waverley Secondary College
• Opportunity to test capability outside of just
  one school
• Opportunity to develop some functional
  specifications that will allow DET to go to
  market
• Agreement with Oracle Corporation in relation to
  provision of Pilot environment

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• Strategic directions / projects
• Whole of Government integration
• Portfolio View
• Rosetta implementation
• Unique Student Identifier
• VCAA Assessment Processing System Re-engineering

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• Bringing it all together

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Extending the Classroom

• Virtual Flexibility
• always available
• inclusive of parents
• open to other teachers
• accessible to student managers

• Physical Constraints
• number of students
• bell times
• student absence
• limited access
• constrained participation

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Multitude of Systems and Information
daily organisation
timetabling
communication
lesson planning
content management
booking
professional development
reporting
student management
list management
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daily organisation
timetabling
communication
lesson planning
content management
booking
professional development
reporting
student management
list management
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content management
Teaching Learning
reporting
lesson planning
timetabling
student management
synergy
communication
booking
AdministrativeEfficiency
daily organisation
list management
professional development
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Link to
Integrated teaching learning
Integrate
Provide
Develop
Monitor
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• Focus on teaching and learning
• Victorian Essential Learning Standards
• Curriculum planning guidelines
• Principles of Learning and Teaching (P-12)
• Assessment and Reporting
• Performance and Development Culture

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Learning Programs Submissions Feedback Assessment
Attendance Surveys Journals Reporting
Core Information Capturing Relationships Timetabli
ng Subject Selection Event Management School
Calendar
Teaching Learning
Student School Information
Content Management
Collaboration Tools
Notifications Chat Email Discussions
Import Search Review Classify
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• Focus on Teaching and Learning
• Transparent nature allows teachers to share ideas
  more easily
• Helps to build a a stronger sense of learning
  community
• In turn, a stronger learning community with a
  focus on learning and teaching leads to much more
  purposeful teaching. Coupled with greater
  transparency of the classroom this leads to
  higher expectations.

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• Real Time Knowledge
• Traditionally
• Post time information ie curriculum is planned,
  taught and assessed. Reporting takes place at the
  end of the semester.
• Value is minimal because feedback arrives after
  the learning has taken place
• The Ultranet
• Connects all learning activities directly to the
  outcomes providing real time feedback.

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• Research and Evaluation
• The Assessment Research Centre at the University
  of Melbourne is undertaking the evaluation of the
  implementation of the Ultranet in pilot schools.
• The Assessment Research Centre is directed by
  Professor Patrick Griffin, an internationally
  recognised specialist in measurement, assessment,
  profile development and implementation,
  psychometrics, statistical analysis and survey
  design.
• The University of Melbourne is a leading
  Australian institution for research and
  development and ranks in the worlds top 20
  universities.

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• Evaluation Outcomes

Assessment of the pilot implementation phase
Evaluation is not based on technology, rather the
process
Identification of opportunities for continuous
improvement
Provision of advice and strategies for roll out
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BENEFITS

• PORTFOLIO
• Allow targeted intervention
• Strategic use of limited resources
• Level of fit to the Enterprise
• Scalable

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BENEFITS

• THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
• Have access to accurate and real time data on
• student attendance
• student achievement
• time spent in key learning areas
• activities undertaken in school
• teacher professional development
• use of digital resources
• This data will facilitate strategic planning and
  more informed allocation of resources

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BENEFITS

• SCHOOLS
• Using data from a range of sources, has the
  capacity to readily identify issues and design
  appropriate interventions
• Effectively monitor, measure and evaluate
  programmes using real-time and longitudinal data

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BENEFITS

• STUDENTS
• Can access classroom activities and resources
  anywhere, anytime
• Greater opportunity for collaboration, reflection
  and personal interaction with their teacher
• Greater emphasis on their learning and more
  opportunity to reflect on progress

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BENEFITS

• TEACHERS
• Better understanding of their students
• Collaborate more effectively with colleagues
• Greater transparency
• Fosters and environment where knowledge base is
  captured, organised, shared and utilised
• Builds the organisations knowledge base

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BENEFITS

• PARENTS
• Gain a much richer and timely insight into their
  childs progress
• Can receive regular feedback on how their child
  is progressing
• Can follow activities and the interactions with
  teachers and peers that their child is
  undertaking at school

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PROCESS TIMELINES
Pilot 2006 2nd industry briefing Q2/3
2006 Interim evaluation Q3 2006 Final
evaluation Q4 2006 ERC1 bid Q4 2006 Tender
preparation release Q1/2 2007 Tender
evaluation Q3 2007 Build / plan deployment Q4
2007 Commence deployment Q3/4 2008
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QUESTIONS?
Will be recorded and published on the S_at_C website
with formal responses Adam Todhunter - CIO David
Allibon Project Director Anne Dalton Probity
Advisor Future questions between now and 2nd
industry briefing should be addressed through
Adam Todhunter, CIO, Department of Education and
Training