IEN Overview Annual Superintendents’ Meeting Aug 5th, 2010

What is the Idaho Education Network? We are a legislatively mandated virtual private educational network Purpose is to provide an equitable and reliable high-speed level of connectivity for all Idaho public schools to support 21st century collaborative learning environments and increase educational outcomes

How are we going to do it? Connect 200 High Schools over three years with ample bandwidth and additional technology Current deployment is 170 Receiving Sites/30 Origination Sites Primary funding through a Statewide E-rate Application-Education Networks of America Video Teleconferencing Systems at each school

Who is doing it?

IEN Program Resource Advisory Council (IPRAC) IEN Technical Subcommittee Technical Director (208) Brady Kraft Communications Director (208) Garry Lough IEN Organization

IEN Project Status Schedule Updates –Directional Changes IEN Advisory Council –New Membership –Organizational Structure

Where are we now? 79 schools connected in FY schools left to connect in FY 2011 and students received courses over video 800+ credits earned over video 250+ Teachers and Administrators trained Established a management system for network Established training for users and teachers Established a search engine for neighboring VTC sites and curriculum

IEN Applications To Date Increased efficiency and flexibility for administrators, teachers and students Higher Education classes to Grades 9 to 12 Professional and Workforce Development –Certification, EMT, Fire, Police, Business, E-Commerce, Masters, PhD. Peer to Peer delivery (Intra-district or Inter-district) Supplemental Curriculum, Virtual Field Trips for K-12 –Royal Botanical Gardens, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Royal Tyrrel Paleontology Museum, NASA, Smithsonian, etc… Collaboration, Meetings, Interact with Subject Matter Experts

Consumer Centric Model

The NOC Network Operations Center

Web-Based Support Center

IEN Delivers a Fully Managed Connectivity Service IEN VPN/ Network Backbone Video Teleconferencing and Support

Expanded Bandwidth to Schools

IEN Adoption (MOU) Open House Presentations with VTC Invite parents to see the system and share your vision Conduct Professional Development and Open House trainings with Teachers Conduct open house meetings with Community Leaders- Police, Fire, Chambers

IEN Adoption Community Leaders Open House ISU workforce training Joe Fleischman and Jeff Hough at ISU E-Commerce Training Online Marketing Customer Retention Techniques or

IEN Adoption Teacher Proctor Training and Origination Training Andy Lanning What does VTC mean to me? Overview of VTC in the class Proctor Training (4hr) Origination Training (16hr)

What are our neighbors doing? Wyoming Model–Heavy focus on K-12 to K-12 delivered courses Utah Model—Heavy focus on Higher Education and Dual Credit. –20% of concurrent enrollment credits were earned through distance education. Idaho Model—Expand on their strengths and included community opportunities, PTE, STEM, Graduate Degrees, Emergency Training, etc…

Big Picture of the IEN website? We have created a mechanism for schools and providers to find what they need, post what they need, and post what they offer. This search function operates with the same principles and rules as many of the search engines you currently use like Google or Yahoo.

Sites Connected

Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration

Content Providers

What does the IEN mean to you?

Contact Garry Lough Communications Director