Chris Poole, BSF Business Manager

Building Schools for the Future‘What does Transformed Learning look like?’June 15th, 2007

Chris Poole………………..

• Deputy Head in a comprehensive school• Information Superhighways - Highdown

Information Hub• Microsoft “school of 21st Century” • Business@speed of thought – pgs 391-393!

• Microsoft for 9+ years• Anytime, Anywhere Learning (AAL)• Education transformation discussions• BSF

Big questions for you …………

• Incremental or systemic?

• Improvement or step change in practice?

• Physical or virtual?

• New buildings or community renewal?

• “will you do what you’ve always done, and get what you’ve

always got”

• Re-think or re-trench?

• Smart homes + smart schools = smart communities = new

economy

• What does it look like in 5 and 10 years time?

Managed ICT service

Bricks and mortar led view

Learning led/ICT enabled view

Networked environmentTeacher toolkits“Tin on desks”ICT bolted onICT to automateICT in with curtainsValue add

“smart” buildingSmart cards etce-procurement“intelligent” learning envt.Big picture thinking – regen./shared services1:1ICT integral to new businessCost displacement

BSF – delivery or transformation?

Martin SykesEnterprise Strategy Consultant

© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

Naser ZiadehIndustry Strategy Consultant

BSF Showcase ................trailer

Vision of learning in a connected community of the future

BSF investments - goals

• Compelling but realistic vision

• Visualise what transformation might look like

• Guidance and tools to envision, plan, deploy and sustain

• Support supply side

Objective• Simplify planning process for BSF teams.• Microsoft expertise available to customers

and partners• Guide planning towards personalised

learning.• Framework which supports Microsoft

technology• Simplify planning process for BSF teams.

Audience• BSF planning team in LAs• Educational Consultants• Microsoft BSF Partners

BSF Guides

BSF Guides – framework for transformation

Envisioning through inspirational educational scenarios

• robust education vision and drivers for change • alternative educational model• explore the art of the possible• ICT to support improved educational outcomes• CE, PfS, NAACE, BECTA, SSAT, QCA and BSF LEAs: Kent, Sandwell,

Durham, Sheffield, Knowsley and Oxford University 

BSF Guides – framework for transformation

Pathways for change P-route and T-route

P-route model

• Emphasis on skills development• Greater diversity in approach, content and

context.• Personalisation - learners have greater choice

over content and pace• Timetable – flexible to allow for self directed

problem based learning• Timetable – flexible with time shifted model• Learners own the assessment process as an

extension of Assessment for Learning.• School as broker of opportunities.

Business value: realising benefits and linking investments with outcomes

• structure for LAs to develop their plans to realise their vision. • benefits realisation framework to help BSF planners link

investment and change based on their local priorities, risks and costs.

• framework to link investments to outcomes and supports robust plans.

• Accenture, Treasury, DfES, Sheffield, PfS 

BSF Guides – framework for transformation

Why projects fail?

Lack of clear links between the project and the organisation's key strategic priorities, including agreed measures of success

Lack of focus on understanding and segmenting user needs

Lack of clear senior management and Ministerial ownership and leadership

Lack of effective engagement with stakeholders

Lack of skills and proven approach to project management and risk management

Too little attention to breaking development and implementation into manageable steps

Poor supplier management:• Evaluation of proposals driven by initial price rather than long-term value for money (especially

securing delivery of business benefits)• Lack of understanding of, and contact with suppliers at senior levels in the organisation• Lack of effective project team integration between client, supplier and the supply chain

Lack of pro-active management of the downstream benefits after the initial implementation project is complete

Source: Initial research undertaken by the UK’s National Audit Office and Office of Government Commerce

The Benefits Realisation Framework

Defining a vision, educational outcomes and benefits and matching investments to meet those by identifying enablers

Validating any existing plans, ideas, and initiatives to assess whether these match or complement the enabler, required changes and benefits and lead to objectives being met

Performing an iterative procedure until the above are defined

Drivers Existing Projects

Objectives BenefitsRequired Changes

NewProjects

Visioning Exercise

Investment and Change Programme

Technology guidance: industry strength ICT infrastructure

• Repeatable solution/blueprint for all Microsoft IT partners• Reduce risk for partner and customer• Support Microsoft IT partners to raise the bar to greater

innovation

BSF Guides – framework for transformation

BSF Guides and Showcase - benefits

• Reduce cost and increase value

• Mitigate risk

• Shared language and process

• Envisioning tool with customer and/or partners

• Potential of ICT to enable change

• Share and deepen understanding of school

requirements

Chris Poole, BSF Business Manager

Building Schools for the Future‘What does Transformed Learning look like?’June 15th, 2007

Martin SykesEnterprise Strategy Consultant

© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.

Naser ZiadehIndustry Strategy Consultant

BSF Showcase

• Personalised experience - less prescription, active learner, co-producer, new teacher/learner and learner/learner relationships, different role for institutions.......

• Immersive experience• Harness lifestyles of young people

A vision shared and developed with:• Knowsley• Sheffield• Kent• Sandwell

BSF Showcase

 

Scenarios to illustrate the possibilities:

• Collaborative learning • Educators perspective • Business of school

• Parent/citizen