Report “The current state of affairs with regard to virtual and managed learning environments in UK schools.” Funded by The Bill Tagg Bursary (Presented to Naace/Becta) This report is based on initial research September – November 2007 and continued thereafter. Prepared by R J Tolley (Maximise ICT Ltd) 31/07/08
Following my research into VLEs, 2007-2008, I published this document. Research was funded by a Naace/Becta 'Bill Tagg Bursary'
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Report
“The current state of affairs with regard to
virtual and managed learning environments
in UK schools.”
Funded by
The Bill Tagg Bursary
(Presented to Naace/Becta)
This report is based on initial research
September – November 2007
and continued thereafter.
Prepared by
R J Tolley
(Maximise ICT Ltd)
31/07/08
R J Tolley Report Completed July 2008 Page 2 of 27
Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................3Some Background .................................................................................................................................................3Initial findings ........................................................................................................................................................3Progress over the last six months ............................................................................................................................5Issues affecting change ..........................................................................................................................................6Some Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................9Quality control of the questionnaires ...................................................................................................................... 11
Appendix-1 list of Learning Platform Services Framework suppliers ....12
Appendix-2 Extracts from Becta re Learning Platforms........................13Funding for your learning platform [Dec 2006].......................................................................................................13What are procurement frameworks? ......................................................................................................................13
Specifications ..................................................................................................................................................14Best value .......................................................................................................................................................14
Appendix-3 Statement on BSF from 10 Downing Street ......................14What is Building Schools for the Future? (Tony Blair March 2007) .........................................................................14
Appendix-4 Analyses of Data from October 2007 Research ................15Copy of On-Line Questionnaire - The Status of VLEs in Schools ............................................................................15
Appendix-5 Charts of statistical Analyses ............................................161. Percentages of schools with/without VLES:........................................................................................................162. Home ownership of PCs: .................................................................................................................................173. Home accessions of the VLE............................................................................................................................174. The physical location of the VLE Server(s).........................................................................................................185. Percentage of Identified Named Suppliers: ........................................................................................................186. What level of influence did/will groups have in the choice of VLE?........................................................................197. Do you have an e-Portfolio system up-and-running? ...........................................................................................198. Schools’ familiarity with using an Intranet as number of years before installing a VLE ........................................... 209. Schools’ relative Intranet usage before installing Moodle .................................................................................... 20
The Government's e-strategy sets the expectation that:
by spring 2008 every pupil should have access to a personalised online learning space with the potential to support an e-portfolio
by 2010 every school should have integrated learning and management systems (a comprehensive suite of learning platform technologies).
To help meet these requirements, the DCSF is allocating £41 million to local authorities under Standards Fund Grant 121a.
The provision of a personalised online learning space for every pupil is the minimum requirement, and the DCSF advises local authorities to consult with their schools' forum or equivalent body and target the funding to achieve maximum impact.
The procurement approach is for local authorities and/or regional broadband consortia (RBCs) to form collaborative arrangements that will meet national framework agreements.
Becta's Learning Platform Services Framework offers a list of approved suppliers to provide a learning platform for schools.
Local authorities are expected to assist schools in purchasing infrastructure services, consultancy services, software licensing, interactive whiteboards, internet safety provision and learning services. Provision within and between local authorities and/or RBCs is variable, so the DCSF expects local authorities and RBCs to choose the most appropriate next steps in line with the national targets for provision in 2008 and 2010.
Where the functionality to provide an online learning space for every pupil does not exist, it is expected that the local authority (working in association with the RBC where appropriate) will ensure that this level of provision and the associated access is available by 2008.
Where the functionality is provided but coverage or potential for access from outside school does not match the requirements, it is expected that the local authority (and where appropriate, working in association with the RBC) will ensure that appropriate access is available by 2008.
In all circumstances, but in particular where the functionality and potential for external access is provided, local authorities should consider carefully the next steps for working towards the 2010 target. In this situation, the Learning Platform Services Framework provides a vehicle for procurement of more comprehensive services.
For further information on Standards Fund Grant 121a, see Teachernet.
Further information on the School Standards Grant 2006-08 (SSG) and SSG (Personalisation) Conditions and Calculators is also available on Teachernet.
EU regulations govern public procurement. Procurement frameworks enable local authorities and schools to buy goods and/or services above the EU procurement threshold value (£139,893) from approved suppliers with levels of service, defined to meet the needs of education.
Becta has established a range of procurement frameworks for education that comply with EU regulations. These provide a simple way for you to purchase the best value and most appropriate ICT products and services, without having to conduct a full EU procurement process. Becta has already conducted the EU tender process; all you have to do is run a mini competition between the suppliers on the framework.
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Specifications
Framework suppliers must meet Becta’s standards and specifications, which support the aims of the national digital infrastructure. These specifications will provide more efficient and sustainable technologies for your authority and schools. The functional specifications will be useful when you are planning area-wide technology implementation. There are specifications for institutional infrastructure, learning platforms, information management and connectivity.
Best value
Becta recommends that purchasing should not be done by individual schools, but by a larger organisation, such as a local authority. Purchases can then be aggregated to achieve economies of scale along with better terms and levels of service.
Appendix-3 Statement on BSF from 10 Downing Street(http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page11310.asp)
What is Building Schools for the Future? (Tony Blair March 2007)
Building Schools for the Future is an unprecedented, once-in-a-generation £45billion programme to rebuild or refurbish every single secondary school in England over 15 years. The first full BSF secondary schools are due to open in September 2007.
The Government is committed to devolve significant funds - about £3 billion in 2005-06 - to local authorities and schools to spend on maintaining and improving their school buildings.
But it also wants to promote a step-change in the quality of provision. That is the focus of Building Schools for the Future (BSF).
"This is an opportunity to revolutionise education by harnessing the best of the public and private sectors. We are investing in the future of our children and in the future of the country."
BSF aims to ensure that secondary pupils learn in 21st-century facilities. Investment will be rolled out to every part of England over 15 waves, subject to future public spending decisions.
By 2011, every authority in England will have received funding to renew at least the schools in greatest need -many will have major rebuilding and remodelling projects and the remainder will have received resources through the Academies programme or Targeted Capital Fund
By 2016, major rebuilding and remodelling projects will have started in every area
BSF is just part of a massive capital investment addressing decades of under-investment - rising from less than £700 million in 1997 to £5.9 billion this year and £8 billion in 2010.
Since 1998, 836 schools have been built including 334 complete new campuses. These projects have been funded by a total private sector investment of almost £4 billion.
Another 700 schools have either been refurbished or rebuilt through money allocated via targeted capital programmes over the last five years.
Extract from 2004 on Academies: (http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/page5352.asp)
"Through the 'Building Schools for the Future' programme... we intend to build such schools nationwide. Every school up to a good standard, and very many of the exemplary quality we see today," said Mr Blair.
Under the plan, LEAs will be asked to match the investment from the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) fund with the need for reform. Every local authority will be invited to consider the scope for independent academies in their area. The new academies will be funded directly from the BSF investment.
Academies are schools run on independent lines, but forge strong partnerships with the community. They are targeted on areas where, for whatever reason, traditional school management has not succeeded.
"Academies are radical public service reform in action," said the Prime Minister.
"Where the challenge is greatest, reform must be boldest - and academies embody that principle."
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Appendix-4 Analyses of Data from October 2007 ResearchCopy of On-Line Questionnaire - The Status of VLEs in Schools
Status as at October 2007:
Q. 1. Please enter your school's full name:
Q.1b and Local Authority.
Q. 2. Please provide your name/post for verification purposes: *
Q. 3. Please give an e-mail address where we may contact you, if follow-up is needed:
Q. 4. Which education sector best describes your school? *
Q. 5. Number on roll
Q. 6. Does your school have a VLE with opportunity for remote access by pupils? *
End Users:
Q. 7. What percentage of families have a computer at home?
Q. 8. What percentage of pupils remotely access the school's VLE regularly?
Q. 9. What percentage of pupils remotely access the school's VLE occasionally?
Q. 10. Do PARENTS have their own login ID with read-only access to their child's work?
Q.11. What percentage of PARENTS use remote access to view their child's work/ progress/ attendance etc?
Q. 12. Have you used a whole-school parental AUDIT to support the above responses? *
Q. 13. What percentage of TEACHERS regularly use remote access to prepare or mark students' work etc?
Installation:
(Q. 14. As your school presently has no VLE please indicate when a VLE might be installed)
(Q. 15. As you have no VLE installed please identify the approximate strength of barriers to implementation)
Q. 16. Where is your VLE server located? (or will be located?)
Q. 17. Please enter the name of your Supplier, Authority, 'Self' or not known.
Q. 18. Please enter the name of the VLE used eg FirstClass, Moodle etc or not known.
Q. 19. What level of influence did/will groups have in the choice of VLE?
Q. 20. Do you have an e-Portfolio system up-and-running?
Content:
Q. 21. Before the introduction of your VLE, for how many years have you had a functioning Learning Platform or Intranet?
Q. 22. What proportion of subjects/departments have materials on the VLE? (For Primary Schools please substitute 'whole school' for 'departments')
Q. 23. What proportion of staff have had training in transporting/uploading curriculum materials onto the VLE?
Q. 24. How many hours per week are spent in managing/uploading curriculum materials? Give total hours for all groups except 'Teachers' - please give average.
Q. 25. How much 'Interactive' software is used regularly on your VLE?
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Appendix-5 Charts of statistical Analyses
1. Percentages of schools with/without VLES:
Secondary Schools that have a VLE
87%
13%
Have aVLENo VLE
Primary (inc Middle) & Special Schools
42%
58%
Have aVLENo VLE
NB Despite the very positive outlook that this might show for Secondary schools questions must be asked about the actual access that both pupils and parents have and to what purposes. Further analyses follow later.
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2. Home ownership of PCs:
% Home ownership of PCs
65
86
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Primary Secondary
3. Home accessions of the VLE
% Remote (home) Accessions by users
4447
3233
40
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Primary Secondary Teachers
Regularly
Occasionally
NB The accessions by teachers is somewhat disconcerting when the range is so very wide. Some schools claiming 100% of teachers regularly gaining remote access down to 10% or even 0% in some cases.
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4. The physical location of the VLE Server(s)
% locations of VLE servers
58%
5%
30%
7%
Supplier
LA centre
School
Cluster
5. Percentage of Identified Named Suppliers:
% of Identified Named Suppliers
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Class Server Fronter Kaleidos Moodle SharePoint Studywiz Uniservity
NB The large proportion of Moodle systems is probably due to DIY enthusiast ‘early starters’. Significant players in the field such as FrogTeacher or Viglen’s It’s Learning are notably missing.
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6. What level of influence did/will groups have in the choice of VLE?
% influence in selecting a VLE
21%
32%30%
5%
12%
Local Authority
SL/MT
teachers
parents
pupils
NB Parents, as suppliers of Home PCs and thus one of the major drivers of VLE access, were the least consulted.
7. Do you have an e-Portfolio system up-and-running?
Status of e-Portfolios in schools
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8. Schools’ familiarity with using an Intranet as number of years before installing a VLE
% of Schools and years using an Intranet before installing the VLE
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