The C2k Service in Northern Ireland · Northern Ireland – 5,500 square miles, 80% rural – 1.8 million population, 35% rural – 19,037 teacher FTEs – 322,548 pupils – 839

The C2k Service in Northern

Ireland

Sharon Lawlor

Curriculum Support Team

Department of Education

10 October 2012

Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland

– 5,500 square miles, 80% rural

– 1.8 million population, 35% rural

– 19,037 teacher FTEs

– 322,548 pupils

– 839 primary schools (4 - 11 years)

– 216 post-primary schools (11 - 18 years)

– 41 special schools (4 - 19 years)

DE Priorities

• Raising Standards for all

• Closing the gap between the highest and

lowest performers

• Enhancing the quality of teaching by

developing the workforce

• Improving the learning environment

• Transforming education management

A Revised CurriculumA Revised Curriculum

• Reduced statutory content for all pupils from 2009/10

• Focus on 21st century skills and competencies for life and work

• Introduction of cross-curricular skills of Communication, using Mathematics and Using ICT

POLICYPOLICY

Education Technology StrategyEducation Technology Strategy

Phase 1 • 1998 – 2003

– common infrastructure and network

– universal broadband connectivity

– reliable managed ICT service

– common curriculum content

– teachers’ professional development

– instances of excellent practice

– awareness of need for change

POLICYPOLICY

Education Technology StrategyEducation Technology Strategy

Phase 2 emPowering Schools

• 2003 – 2008 and beyond!

– changed practice for the learner – started with ICT suites now moving into the classroom

– enhanced professional practice for the teacher and the school leader

– whole-school improvement (data)

– building collaborative approaches to curriculum provision and professional development

– service enhancement and innovation

C2k Education Network (NI) – April 2012

– Increased bandwidth

– Education Cloud environment

– Fronter e-learning platform

– Digital Classroom

– Supports collaboration

– WiFi

– Help Desk and user support

Welcome to:

Avril Allen – C2k

Ryan O’Donnell - Northgate

SHARON LAWLOR

028 9127 9342

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

© 2009 Northgate Managed Services Ltd.

© 2012 Northgate Managed Services Limited All rights reserved.

IEF Digital Media in

Education


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New World – New words

• Where more than the birds ‘tweet’

• Where its ok to have your ‘head in the clouds’

• Where a phone is more than a phone it’s a Smart Phone.

• Where you can do everything as long as its ‘as a Service’

• Where we don’t search but we ‘Google” for it

• Where there seems to be an App for almost everything..

• Where Reality is becoming Augmented

• And many many more…..


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The World has Changed


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And the C2k Service is changing…

• MY-SCHOOL

• Cloud

• Filtered access to Services

• New Bandwidth

• New Storage

• Enterprise Wireless…

• Multiple Device types


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Northgate Education Cloud

External Microsoft 365

Google Docs

Online Educational

Content

Centralisation Archiving

Backup

Storage

On Premise Service School Applications

Local Storage

Whole Class Teaching Tools

Integration of technologies & Applications

Choice

Flexible

Customisable

Intuitive

On Demand

Providing Cloud broker

services to 350,000

teachers & learners


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Northgate Education Cloud

Choice

Flexible

Customisable

Intuitive

On Demand

School

Applications

Local Storage

Public Cloud

Online Productivity

Online Educational Content

..and much more

Northgate

Education

Cloud

Private Cloud

Storage / Backup

Updates / Management

..old world ‘Data Centre’


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MY-SCHOOL

Infrastructure Layer

Application Layer

Education

Presentation Layer


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How it looks


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How it looks


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Learning Exchange

Central store for training materials

• MY-SCHOOL

• Fronter

• Capita SIMS

• How to Guides

• Dynamically updated with common threads from Service Desk calls

Learning nuggets

• Multi-Modal training assets

Just in Time learning materials

Directly accessed by Schools

Flexible

Intuitive

Self Paced

On-Demand


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Existing school based storage

• Better use of existing local storage

• Centralised archiving and backup to data

centre

• Remove backup task from schools

Idea of Scale

• Old service initially 50MB per student

• New Service providing virtually unlimited

storage

• Grows to meet the users needs and delivers

capacity for the future

Storage & Archiving

Flexibility

Security

Resilience

Energy

Efficiency


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Supporting Device Choice

• Access to Service;

– Range of Devices

– From Anywhere

– By everyone

– At any time

• Designed for the consumers

– Macs, Android, Linux, Windows, etc

– Built for choice

• Promotes “Bring your Own” Device


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Dynamic Applications

• A new approach to applications – App Store

– Change from push to pull of applications

• Launch or Stream

– Platform for new application types

• Cloud services – Microsoft 365 email / Google

Docs

• Online content

• Use resources throughout schools

• Use resources between and across schools

• Use resources outside School

• Ability to create and distribute local applications

easily

Ease of use

Choice

Efficiencies

On-Demand


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Connectivity


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Wireless

• Unique connectivity model

– No Site Surveys

– No overlapping channels

– 802.11n compatible

• Advantages

– Flexibility in where ICT can be used.

– Improved access for mobile devices .

– Responding to move towards pupil owned devices.

• Designed to meet the specific needs of the classroom

Flexibility

Mobility

Control


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Staying Connected

• Video Conferencing:

• Continued support of HD VC with movi

• Extended virtual classroom with Elluminate

• Across Schools and Countries

• In new ways..

• Collaboration Tools;

• Lync (OCS)

• Blogs

• Wiki’s

• Email

• Instant Messenger

• Video Conferencing

• Elluminate – (Now

called Blackboard

Collaborate)


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Summary

• Journey to the Education Cloud

Balance of School / Private Cloud and Public Cloud

• Offers:

Choice,

Flexibility,

Future proof

• Embraces Digital Media

Choice to use

Common Platform to enable School choices in Journey


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Climate Change is coming to

education.

• C2k

• Higher

Education

• Workplace

• Classroom


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C2k

• C2k Education network

• MY-SCHOOL

• Blended approach

• Learning Exchange • Multimodal

• Learning nuggets

• C2k Exchange

• Equella- digital library


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Higher Education

• Blended courses: better outcomes • Online

• Face to Face

• Digital resources

• Bite size Learning

• Time spent on line !


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Workplace

• Workplace learning

• Non Course Learning

• Informal learning • Social media/social learning

• PULL- interactive

• PUSH – Face to face


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Classroom

• MY-SCHOOL • VLE- Fronter

• Equella – Library

• Video Conferencing • Collaboration

• Ask an expert

• Learning Exchange

• Social Learning opportunities


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Avril Allen

C2k Service Delivery Manager

http://www.c2kni.org.uk

[email protected]

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The C2k Service in Northern Ireland · Northern Ireland – 5,500 square miles, 80% rural – 1.8 million population, 35% rural – 19,037 teacher FTEs – 322,548 pupils – 839