1. Planning for personalised online learning
Learning Services
Planning for personalised online learning

2. The e-strategy
Transform learning and teaching through shared ideas, stimulating activities and online support
Engage hard to reach learners with more choice about how and when to learn
Create an open and accessible system with information and services available to parents, carers, children, adult learners, employers
Greater efficiency, reduced burdens: through streamlined administration
Opportunities for professional development through peer to peer networks, online research databases

3. In a nutshell? A key objective is to provide:
‘a personalised learning space with the potential to support e-portfolios available to every school by ’

4. What will it mean for my school?
Tailoring content to user needs and learning styles
Breadth & flexibility of resources
Customising learning
Student engagement
Continuity of learning and out-of-hours learning
Home learning
Parental involvement
Access to performance information

5. What will it mean for my school?
Supporting anytime, anywhere learning
Remote access
Removing boundaries
Re-engaging disaffected students
Enabling peer/mentor dialogue
Sharing, adapting & repurposing
Spreading exemplar and innovative practice

6. 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

7. Planning strategically
Defining institutional readiness
Where are we now?
Where do we need to be?
What needs to be in place?
Measuring progress
How do you make it happen?
Infrastructural change
Involving everyone
Investing in new skills
CPD

8. Planning strategically
Cultural change and change management
New ways of thinking
New ways of doing
Planning for change
Involving everyone
Support for change management
National Remodelling Team
Remodelling resources, ‘Touching tomorrow’
NCSL

9. Planning strategically
School development planning
Constantly under review
Exploiting new technologies
Continuous improvement
Short, medium & long-term investment
Enabling data flow
MIS
Data outside the institution
Access to data about learning
Parental involvement

10. Planning strategically
Building in accessibility
From inception
A constant
Sustainability
Planning for the short-term
Planning for the long-term

11. What is a learning platform?
Simple web-based learning content systems
Internet-based
Upload/download of files
Basic communication tools
Message boards/chat

12. What is a learning platform?
More advanced systems such as Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
Learner support
Learner tools
Management & tracking of learner activity
Assessment

13. What is a learning platform?
Comprehensive Managed Learning Environments (MLEs)
Share & exchange data
Links to MIS
Include staffing, finance etc.

14. 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-fits-all solution, and success will be determined by ensuring a coherent match of learning services.

15. 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

16. 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

17. Support from Becta
‘Planning for personalised online learning’, available from the Becta web site at:

18. Support from Becta Functional specifications
Defining levels of functionality for learning platform technologies
Created in collaboration with industry
Currently in production for release Spring 2006

19. Support from Becta Self review framework
Online interpretation of functional specifications
Enables management to establish current position and create action plans for future investment
Available from February 2006

20. Support from Becta Practitioner stakeholder group
Online community to validate advice & guidance
Involved in developing messages
Invitation to join:

21. Support from Becta Procurement framework
Currently being developed to support aggregated purchasing
Informed by the functional specifications
Evaluation process

22. Evaluation process EU restricted procedure Commercial review
Supplier health check
Value for money
Commercial considerations
Appropriateness of solutions
Agree terms & conditions

23. Evaluation process Practical systems test Practical test
Confirm performance to quoted specifications
Practical test
Suppliers given a scenario
Site visits/plans
Suppliers provide report assessed on suitability of solution, H&S, VfM etc.
Installation capability
Pre-delivery configuration capability
Aim for no unresolved issues
Ability to integrate with legacy systems
Training assessment

24. Evaluation process Technical support
Introduce faults to hardware/software
Suppliers asked to provide information
Call logging, resolution of faults, appropriate solutions
Quality procedures – ISO 9000 assessors
Complaints procedure
Post assembly/pre-delivery checks
Technical support escalation
Procedures for integration of legacy equipment

25. Postscript - How to get it all wrong!*
Based on experiences from the FE sector:
Keep it all to yourself
Don’t provide any content
Don’t train the staff
Train the staff in the wrong things at the wrong times
Forget about the underpinning infrastructure
Everyone is going to be enthusiastic about learning platforms
Forget about quality control
Saying all lessons should be supported or delivered online

26. Postscript - How to get it all wrong!*
Spending the money too soon!
* Technology for e-learning, ‘How to get it all wrong’