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Overview of talk
1. Membership Activities
- Professional Development
- Personalisation
- Promoting membership
2. Academy Activities
3. Presidential Theme
Liz Bacon 2
Membership Overview
• Professional development is at the heart of a lot of what we
do.
• Membership is evolving, growing, evidenced by what
members want…..and it is working
• Helping organisations to recognise and value members; to
make use of membership inside their organisations, and
engage with us more fully.
• Personalisation e.g. eBCS
– Get the right relevant content in front of members.
– Help groups to get to the right people outside their mailing
lists etc.
• Roger Marshall’s project around engagement with students
and young professionals is being launched
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CPD Portal
CPD Portal September 2012
• Gateway to more resources
• RSS feeds of events, articles/blogs, videos
• 466% in page visits
• 431% in unique page visits
• 120% in time on page
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Personal Development Plan
CPD Portal September 2012
BCS Personal
Development Plan April 2013
• Portable record of professional aspirations and activities
• Goals, reflective learning, reports, resources
• 4,000 user accounts, 1,700 active users
• 1,496 active members users, 189 active non-mem. users
• 4,300 Development Goals and Activities
• 1,400 users set their parameters inc. Primary SFIA Skills
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Personal Development Plan
CPD Portal September 2012
BCS Personal
Development Plan April 2013
• Targeted (by SFIA category) CPD
• 40% - 60% open rate (20%-40% higher than eBCS)
• 60% retention rate (based on only two editions)
• 70-80% read on the day received
• 30% open them more than once
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BCS CPD App
CPD Portal September 2012
BCS Personal
Development Plan April 2013
BCS CPD App November 2013
• Mobile-enabled gateway to advice and resources
• Android and iOS
• BCS positive presence in key App stores
• Gives us a presence on the home screens of mobiles
• Drives members and future members to our resources
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BCS Career Mentoring Network
CPD Portal September 2012
BCS Personal
Development Plan April 2013
BCS CPD App November 2013
BCS Career
Mentoring Network Summer 2014
• Guidance and resources
• Non-onerous Mentor and Mentee profiles
• Simple Mentor and Mentee search facilities
• Complements work of Member Groups
eBCS personalisation
•Aim: increased
relevance, increased
value to members
•Topical focus based on
interests
• ‘Best of’ going to all
members
•Topical events
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Teamtalk campaign – engaging organisations
http://teamtalk.bcs.org
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• For organisations and
employees
• Resources
• Professional
development and
Networking
opportunities
• Career opportunities
• Latest thinking etc.
11 IT Technician
•Funded by the Gatsby Foundation
•Gatsby’s analysis indicates a significant need and
support for the IT Technician designation
•Programme - Develop, launch and promote a new
Registered IT Technician standard
–recognised, valued, vendor-neutral
–IT Apprenticeships being developed will link with
Registered IT Technician standard
–aligned to SFIA Level 3
Registered IT Technician standard
Timeframe
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Define
standard
April 2014 April 2015
Define
processes
Set up
Register
Published
Standard
Launch
Register
Promote
Register
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• Jan 2013 DfE announce statutory Computing curriculum
– Computer Science at heart of new curriculum
– Schoolchildren from age 5 to be taught programing
– Still includes digital literacy as major component
– DfE announce Computer Science added as the fourth
science in EBacc school performance measure
• Computing At School (>10,000 members, growing >300 per
month, >80% are school teachers)
– 98 local CAS Hubs
– 1570 online resources available on the CAS website
– Over 120 events planned in March 2014 alone
Academy
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How to get Computing taught in 25,000 Schools • BCS generated over 8.4 million from DfE but not
mainstream funding (yet) + 400K from Scottish
Government
• Key project is CAS Network of Teaching Excellence in
Computer Science
- Funding is to train 400 Computer Science Master
Teachers who will train others 40 other schoolteachers
in local area = 16,000 schoolteachers
- 16,000 primary schools in England with over 160,000
full-time qualified teachers, all of whom are expected to
teach the new Computing curriculum from September
2014.
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900 schools,
200 lead schools
70 universities,
18/24 Russell Group
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Barefoot Computing project
• £1m DfE funded project to provide computer science
exemplification material to all primary schools.
• February BT and Microsoft agreed to partner with BCS for
the Barefoot Computing project.
• There will be 800 country wide workshops to engage
primary teachers with the new resources.
• Microsoft are supplying pro-bono support and funds to
create primary school resources.
• BT are providing significant staff resources on a pro-bono
basis to manage delivery of the project e.g. they are
providing the main project manager and paying half their
salary and the rest provided by the DfE grant.
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Ministerial Engagement with BCS
• Cross Party Political Support for the new Computing Curriculum - Dr Tristram Hunt (Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education)
• NoE grant due to expire just before next election – as of 3rd
March - DfE will formally review the current project in
September 2014, with a view to extending the grant to 2016 at
that point.
• Matthew Hancock (joint Minister of State at BIS and DfE) has
agreed in principle to give a speech at the Barefoot Computing
launch event (early May 2014) at the BT Tower in central
London.
• Liz Truss, Minister for Schools, has agreed to give a speech at
our event (25th June) to celebrate the first cohort of BCS
scholars to complete their teacher training.
UKForCE UK Forum for Computing Education
• RAEng established in response to the recommendation from
the Royal Society - Royal Academy of Engineering report
Shutdown or restart: which had as a key recommendation
the formation of a UK forum for the UK’s computing bodies.
• UKForCE “will provide an independent and unified voice to
advise UK government and other agencies on issues
relating to computing education.”
• “UKForCE will provide advice on the curriculum,
qualifications and assessment and the supply and training
of computing teachers.”
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Other Academy Activities
•BCS is joining with Google for their 4 regional
road shows they are going to run on the new
curriculum over the next year
•Talking to BBC about how we might support their
Year of Code
•EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for
Informatics Education) Euro-Info accreditation –
offered to universities alongside CITP, CEng and
CSci.
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• Wide definition - formal and informal learning,
technology support in the classroom to online distance
learning.
• Expected European growth in ICT jobs by 2020 is 9.3%.
–At least 509,000 vacancies predicted across Europe
for 2015 - UK (25%) + DE (24%)
–By 2020, 900,000 vacancies UK (27%) + DE (17%)
• Demand, particularly for higher education, from
developing countries phenomenal.
• Technology has to be at the heart of the solution, BCS
championing the call.
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Transforming Education through Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) - Theme
• People are immersed in technology and expect it to support
their learning in the same way it does the rest of their lives.
• Increasing expectation to learn (degree, short course,
certification etc.) where and when want, through any device.
• In the US in 2010, 30% of degree students took an online
course during their studies – what will their CPD be like in the
future?
• Some predict in 10 years no printed text books, 50% of US
degrees will be on-line.
• Explosion of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) – free,
charge for certificates….
• Online often considered a poor second but can do things not
possible in a classroom e.g. simulations, games.
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Where is it all going?
•BCS L&D looking at HE quals, certifications etc.
•70%+ of learning is informal
•Online mentoring
•BCS CPD app – access to videos etc. for
learning
•Personal development plan - resources
•Videos of member events increasingly streamed
/ recorded
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BCS and TEL - current
• Review of own education delivery
• Guidance and advice to learning providers
• Support for personal learning and growth of individuals
• Educate members how to be successful at online learning
• Free taster online courses (MOOC?) – global reach - enhance
brand and reputation
• Education is at the heart of our industry and is a core BCS
focus
• Over time - fundamentally change the nature of our
relationship with members and how we engage with them
• Learning analytics – about to explode!
• Agenda will live on way beyond this year – start of journey!
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BCS and TEL – Future?
Security Challenge?
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•Involved for > 20 years
•Given the predicted shortage of IT
professionals in Europe alone makes this an
important agenda.
•Biologist, chemists, physicists and chemical
engineers also have female presidents this
year so I hope to working with them on this.
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Women in Computing
