EUs Information Society Forum Steering Group Member, from 1995 Principal, BHC 1990-94 & Newark...

EU’s Information Society Forum Steering Group Member, from 1995

Principal, BHC 1990-94 & Newark & Sherwood College 1995-2006

UfI Design & Implementation Group Member 1997-8

Member of Higginson Committee, (and then NLN boards) from1994

Chair, JISC MLE Steering Group, then Member JISC

Member, DELG & JIG GroupsChair, NLN Programme Board

Board Member 2004/6

Co-Founder of NILTA (then NAITFE) 1989v-jogra@microsoft.com

35+ Year Career In Education,College Principal 16 years

UK & EU AssignmentsOver 20 Year Period

Now Doing Research, London University Institute of Education

And Strategy Consultancy Workfor Microsoft & Other Companies

http://planar-research.org

v-jogra@microsoft.com35+ Year Career In Education,

College Principal 16 years

UK & EU AssignmentsOver 20 Year Period

Now Doing Research, London University Institute of Education

And Strategy Consultancy Workfor Microsoft & Other Companies

http://planar-research.org

Universities - A Changing WorldUniversities - A Changing World

Significant globalisation led change?

Longer working lives, many careers, needing continuous skill development?

English the business language still ?

Do we still “travel to work” .. ? Or to Learn?

World 2025

100$

Changed!

Chinese?

Certain.

Challenge!

Are Our Institutions Ready For All This?

UNESCO & Microsoft, Education Leaders Forum Paris 7/8 July 2008Success and Sustainability: Tertiary Education’s Global Challenge

e-TransformationsThe MIT ‘Management In The 90s’ model transformed our thinking about technology-led change…

Localised

Coordinated

Transformative

Embedded

Innovative

… and, later, gave the vocabulary for UK Becta’s “e-maturity” modelIBM’s development of MIT ideas gave an early business rationale for learner-centred planning ...

… and, in the mid-1990s, the University for Industry signalled another phase of transformational change in UK Tertiary education...

So, are our institutions ready for what’s ahead?

JG Letter, with free copy of the book to all UK colleges, Sept 1996

“… there are massive changes, and there is a growing recognition that they cannot be sustained on the basis of traditional models of teaching and learning alone”

Early LE Thoughts

… focussed on processes not

products

Mapped UK Higher Ed’s business social and technical processes, and influenced JISC’s 2001 MLE thinking ..

Quality ProcessQualityProcess

Student Record SystemStudent Record System

Tracking

Tutor Support

DeliveryCurriculumMapping

Communication

Assessment

Other AgenciesFundingCouncils

Other CollegesOther

Partners

LearningResources

LearningResources

Business SystemsBusinessSystems

Off-LineLearning

Registers

MLE JISC 2002

EDIEDI

SCORMSCORM

IMSIMSXMLXML

Performance Point Server

SharePoint

SLK,Blackboard, Moodle, W2.0

SQL Server

ProcessesStandardsProducts

Ready For What ? An e-Readiness Framework

Any Vice Chancellor, Rector or Principal has lots of “e” agendas to

consider …

e-learningepicentre

 … What Is Microsoft’s interest in this?

… What can MS Offer?

Microsoft's AimsIn Higher Education

If Anoop Gupta had been here …

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Education Products & Solutions Technology Policy & Strategy

.. he would have talked about the growth of “non-traditional” students in the USA’s Higher Ed student profile …

… something which we also see across Europe, and which will be extended by the Bologna changes …

Improve the efficiency of education systems

Create powerful learning communities

Enhance learning with powerful software tools

Enable student-centered learning

Broaden access to education

.. and we aim to help Tertiary Education …

Give learners and employers what they expect to get nowadays … Empower tutors with

easy-to-use technology that leverages their efforts …

.. By Providing A Scalable, Cost-Effective, Integrating All Your Systems

Add value to management from the administrative & business intelligence processes ….

MS Learning Gateway

Framework

Sorbonne Declaration 1998

We are heading for a period of major change in education and working conditions, to a diversification of courses of professional careers with education and training throughout life becoming a clear obligation.

We owe our students, and our society at large, a higher education system in which they are given the best opportunities to seek and find their own area of excellence.

e-Bologna ….

Q?

Mmmmm ..

• Mobility…• Credit Transfer…• Diploma Supplements …• e-learning …• e-assessment …• employer-based learning

… lots to get e-Ready for!

Your Support Contacts in Microsoft Italy

Alessandro Cannarsi

Direttore settore Education

alessandro.cannarsi@microsoft.com

Alessandro Adamo

Responsabile comunicazione e marketing

alessandro.adamo@microsoft.com