e-learning business models in the uk and partnerships for successful international business dominic...
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e-learning business models in the UK and partnerships for
successful international business
Dominic Savage OBE
Director General British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA)
1978 – first policy on using computers in UK schools
Early 80s – Microelectronics Education Programme (then NCET, then Becta)
1985 – 1st BETT
1978 – first policy on using computers in UK schools
Early 80s – Microelectronics Education Programme (then NCET, then Becta)
1985 – 1st BETT 1997/8 – Stevenson report 1998-2009 – major investment in
education and ICT
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700
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500
400
300
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100
1998-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
102m104.5m
198.5m
249m
409m
540m
594m611m
741m
£ mill
Year
Figures include LA matchedfunding
2007-2008
833m
1997>2008ICTspend inEngland
What learners are entitled to
Media
To have access technology and use it wherever and whenever their learning requires to:
Access information on their personal learning goals and progress
Use a wide range of online learning resources and collaborative tools to share and work with others
In a learning environment which: Provides identical online learning services
wherever they are
Provides access to formal learning support and teaching when needed
Market based on devolution of spending to schools
Some joining together as consortia LAs and regional broadband consortia
can purchase for groups of schools Managed service providers eg RM are
major purchasers BSF (even in cut-down form) involves
joint procurement
UK Treasury announcement on 23 May about savings totalling £6.2 billion included:
£80m from closing the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) and other savings in Department for Education quangos.
1978 – first policy on using computers in UK schools
Early 80s – Microelectronics Education Programme (then NCET, then Becta)
1985 – 1st BETT 1997/8 – Stevenson report 1998-2009 – major investment in education
and ICT 2010 - ? Becta scrapped – ‘ICT a matter
for schools’
UK software/content market likely to decline from £117million to less than £100million
UK market will not go away! UK suppliers going global –
partnerships are flourishing BETT – 30,000 audience (24,000 UK +
6,000 international)
BETT, London, 12-15 January 2011