Planning for personalised online learning

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• Planning for personalised online learning
• BETT 2007
• Robin BallManager Learning ServicesJohn
  MorrisHeadteacher, Ardleigh Green Junior School

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The e-strategy

• ICT assumptions in
• DfES 5 year strategy, Every child matters
• Connecting the UK
• New relationship with schools.
• Good outcomes from early adopters
• ICT now underpins Government strategy
• Harnessing technology
• Higher standards better schools for all.

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The e-strategy
Learner-centred personalised learning Access to
online learning space by 2007-08 Learning
platforms embedded in schools Get best
value Affordable and sustainable services Fully
integrated, robust systems.
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In a nutshell?

• The initial provision objective is access to
• a personalised online learning space with the
  potential to support e-portfolios available to
  every school by 2007-08

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In a nutshell?

• The aspiration is that by 2010 all schools will
  have
• Integrated learning and management systems.
• Schools and local authorities should be planning
  towards an integrated learning and management
  solution that provides the full range of
  functionality across every aspect of school life.

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The e-strategy

• One size wont fit all
• National strategy, ideally delivered at regional
  or local level
• Affordability economies of scale
• Reduced technological burden
• Local authority/regional broadband consortium
  initial provision.

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What is a learning platform?

• Simple web-based learning content systems
• Internet-based
• Upload/download of files
• Basic communication tools
• Message boards/chat.

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What is a learning platform?

• More advanced systems such as Virtual Learning
  Environments (VLEs)
• Learner support
• Learner tools
• Management tracking of learner activity
• Assessment.

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What is a learning platform?

• Comprehensive Managed Learning
• Environments (MLEs)
• Share and exchange data
• Links to management information
• Include staffing, finance etc.

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What will it mean for my school?

• Tailoring content to user needs and learning
  styles
• breadth and flexibility of resources
• customising learning
• student engagement.
• Enabling peer/mentor dialogue
• sharing, adapting and repurposing
• spreading exemplar and innovative practice.

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What will it mean for my school?

• Supporting anytime, anywhere learning
• remote access
• removing boundaries
• re-engaging disaffected students.
• Continuity of learning and out of hours learning
• home learning
• parental involvement
• access to performance information.

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What will it mean for my school?

• Assessment for learning
• share aims of learning with students
• monitor progress
• planned interventions.
• Involvement of pupils in their own learning
• ownership of learning
• increased motivation
• anytime, anywhere learning.

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Planning strategically

• Defining institutional readiness
• Where are we now?
• Where do we need to be?
• What needs to be in place?
• Measuring progress.
• Cultural change and change management
• new ways of thinking
• new ways of doing
• planning for change
• involving everyone.

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Planning strategically

• How do you make it happen?
• Infrastructural change
• Involving everyone
• Investing in new skills
• Continuing professional development.
• Support for change management
• National Remodelling Team resources, Touching
  tomorrow
• National College for School Leadership Strategic
  Leadership of ICT (SLICT) programme
• Bectas self-review framework.

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Planning strategically

• School development planning
• constantly under review
• exploiting new technologies
• continuous improvement
• short, medium long-term sustainable investment.
• Building in accessibility
• from inception
• a constant.

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Planning strategically
Implementation model based upon BT developments
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Dimensions of change
Success
Jacqueline S. Thousand Richard A. Villa
Managing Complex Change 2001
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• John Morris - Headteacher

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Implications
Understanding
Evaluation
Resources
Entitlement
Capability
E-confidence
Impact
E-learning
Development
Evolution
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Key Questions
Do you know where you are?
Do you know where you are going?
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Empower
Extend
Enhance
Enrich
Exchange
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The Potential of Personalised Learning
Enhanced, Extended Enriched learning

• The learning station helps you to revise and
  its good that you can add your own stuff to the
  pages
• Its fun to use and you learn at the same time

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The Potential of Personalised Learning
Engaged, Excited Enthused Pupils

• I like the learning station because you are in
  charge of what you do and when you do it!
• I like the learning station because you can
  choose you dont have someone telling you!

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So what should I look for?

• Most learning platform systems will offer a
  variety of functions in a number of ways, from
  basic, hosted systems to fully integrated,
  managed systems.
• There is no one size fits all solution, and
  success will be determined by ensuring a coherent
  match of learning services.

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Forget labels and acronyms!

• Think about your requirements and look at
  available functionality
• Communication and collaboration
• Content sourcing and delivery
• Content repurposing and sharing
• Curriculum mapping
• Assessment and recording
• Accurate intervention and reporting
• Effective administration.

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Forget labels and acronyms!

• Think about your requirements and look at
  available functionality
• Data transparency (adherence to
• agreed standards)
• Connectivity
• Security
• Support and maintenance
• Training.

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Local authority initial provision

• To provide access to
• communication communication and collaboration
  tools to enable both peer - peer and peer -
  mentor dialogue.

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Local authority initial provision

• To provide access to
• individual working space individual online
  working spaces, for the school workforce and
  pupils.

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Local authority initial provision

• To provide access to
• management tools to enable teachers to create
  and manage digital content to match user needs
  and learning styles and to report on usage.

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Local authority initial provision

• To provide
• access safe and secure, anytime, anywhere access.

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Local authority initial provision

• Focus on the initial local authority provision
• communication and collaboration tools
• individual online working spaces
• tools to enable teachers to create and manage
  digital content
• safe and secure, anytime, anywhere access.

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Support from Becta

• Planning for personalised online learning,
  available from the Becta website at
• http//www.becta.org.uk/publications

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Support from Becta

• Making the most of your investment in ICT,
  available from the Becta website at
• http//www.becta.org.uk/publications

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Support from Becta

• Functional specifications
• defining levels of functionality for learning
  platform technologies
• created in collaboration with industry and
  practitioners
• available from Bectas Schools website
  http//www.becta.org.uk/schools/learningplatforms

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Support from Becta

• Functionality Matrix
• online interpretation of functional
  specifications
• enables management to establish current position
  and create action plans for future investment
• links to Bectas self-review framework
• http//matrix.becta.org.uk/selfreview

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Support from Becta

• Practitioner stakeholder group
• Online community to share experiences
• Develop collaborative approaches and partnerships
• Involved in developing messages
• Support, advice guidance
• To join go to Becta Communities
  http//communities.becta.org.uk

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Support from Becta

• Becta View publications
• ICT and inclusion
• ICT and home-school partnerships
• Interoperability of content and data services
• Authentication
• Improving learning and teaching with ICT
• E-assessment and e-portfolios
• Assistive technologies.

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Preparation for learning platforms

• Develop a vision for teaching and learning
  through engagement with senior management team,
  teachers, governors, parents and learners.
• Use the Learning platform functionality tool and
  the self-review framework to help gain an
  understanding of your current position and what
  actions you need to take in order to realise your
  vision.
• Learning platform functionality tool
  http//matrix.becta.org.uk gt ICT infrastructure
• Self-review framework http//matrix.becta.org.uk/s
  elfreview

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Procurement of learning platforms

• Procurement framework agreement
• Supports aggregated purchasing
• Based on specifications
• Robust evaluation process
• Becta will not recommend any oneparticular
  approach, and stresses the need for a five-point
  plan
• The product(s)
• Installation
• Maintenance
• Support
• Training.

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Procurement of learning platforms

• Some level of aggregated purchase is likely to
  achieve best value for money, reduced technical
  and support burdens and easy migration of data.
• Consult with your local authority and explore
  their options under the initial provision.