e-learning strategies & communities

e-learningstrategies & communities

David Mason

Content manager

e-learningstrategies & communities

• Providing the essential infrastructure• Developing educational workforce• Building a better elearning market• Building collaborative partnerships

working with national e-learning communities

• Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence

• Embracing the new pedagogies

33 local authorities

2,500 schools

64,000 teachers

1m pupils

10mb to secondary

5mb to primary

600 point video-conf

VLE portal

25mb webspace

Web templates

LGFL’s e-learning infrastructure

Gate A MLE

On Line, On Track

Executive Board

Editorial Board

4 Sector boards

Premium content

Content management system

Web visitor

Centrally-provided content

Simple content management system

Logon needed but only for some content

Portal user

Centrally-provided content and services (webmail, video-conf etc)

Own webspace

Logon needed for services

VLE participant

Active use of own webspace to create and distribute content

Teacher/school/LEA creation of courses

Sharing of resources across school/LEA/Grid

MLE member

Complete management system of content and users

Includes learning and assessment

Integrated into school MIS

Essential part of course delivery

e-learning on LGFL – definition by user?

LGFL Primary deals

LGFL deals for secondary schools

Developing educational workforce (Primary)

•KS1 AST teacher – Belinda Evans Brindishe School, Lewisham

•Bethnal Green Museum of Childhoodlocal Resource member

•QCA scheme of Work for KS1 History unit 1

‘How are our toys different from those in the past? ’

Developing educational workforce (secondary)

•KS3 and 4 Citizenship

•ProQuest Learning

•Supporting GCSE coursework

Supporting innovation in e-learning

•Over 50% of London primary schools have bought Infant Video Toolbox

•LGFL/2Simple Online Talking Stories are written in English and read out in English, Urdu, Turkish, Gujerat and Punjabi

•Topics include the Great Fire of London, a trip down the Thames from Westminster to Woolwich, a seaside trip, a London market and a London Park

Building a better e-learning market

A London/Espresso e-learning community Develop London content

Building a better e-learning market

History Live – Geography Live?

• Share design template across KS3/4 subjects

• Work with KS3 Foundation consultants on identifying content

• Pay for development = ‘free’ content

CLEO-LGFL Geography Collaborative Learning Project

The project will twin classes in Haringey, North London with ones in Cumbria and

Lancashire with a view to developing children’s understanding of what it would be

like to live in a different locality.The project is aimed at Year 5 classes, but could be undertaken by years 4

or 6. It covers many aspects of the geography QCA Scheme of work Contrasting

Localities unit. The proposal suggests the following stages:

Where are you? What’s our class like? Daily DiaryWrite a PictureVideo conference/video exchange

Building collaborative partnershipsworking with national e-learning communities

•Users will only be able to access the free hi-res content from a machine that is physically connected to the local RBC. This is our guarantee to British Pathe that all users of the free content are from the educational sector.•Content hosted within the RBC community•The licence is between British Pathe and the English RBC’s. If others want to join the licence consortium, they would need to pay £3,000 to the holding RBC

•Free access to the hi-res Windows media files will be available once user authentification trials have been completed•Free access to QuickTime versions of the files will available when they are finished, sometime in January•Free access to 2 million photos in the British Pathe library will be available once user authentification trials have been completed

British Pathe – conditions of the licence

Towards a network of subject-based centres of excellence

Embracing the new pedagogiesAnd whilst we weren’t looking

this happened ….

• Haringey an on-line course for KS3 Literacy

•Hammersmith and Fulhamresources library

• RBKCfocal point for schools action

Haringey

Hammersmith and Fulham

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Embracing the new pedagogies

And whilst we weren’t looking

some teachers did this ….

•Rockliffe Manor, Greenwich

•Anson, Brent

e-learningstrategies & communities

• Providing the essential infrastructure• Developing educational workforce• Building a better elearning market• Building collaborative partnerships

working with national e-learning communities

• Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence

• Embracing the new pedagogies