What is Schooling at the Speed of Thought?

What's the vision?

Anytime anywhere learning for all -

Schooling at the Speed of ThoughtFriday, March 30, 20122:26 PM

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Great idea - but there's some problems

What do these numbers represent?

$2.4trn

7%Performance over time curve:

So what's holding-up progress?

Number of stakeholders

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Number of stakeholders1.

Conservatism2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2zqTYgcpfg Operating and changing systems simultaneously3.

Others???4.

Complexity -5.

But we need to modernise, right?

The stakeholder's perspectives -

Children

Drop-out rates are increasing - why? •

Employment prospects are directly affected by the quality and TYPE of education they get•

Tax payers

Budgets are generally tight - and even with additional funding, its essential to get effectiveness levels up

•

Cost of drop-out is huge - $2m over the lifetime of a student in EU•

Employers

21st Century Skills •

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21st Century Skills •

Teachers

Does teaching pass the "in-demand" profession test?•Why not?•Do we keep doing the same things expecting to get a different result?•

Politicians

Education is now firmly linked to long term economic success•21st Century Skills (Problem Solving) now a part of PISA •

What do we need to do to make learning more effective?

What does modernisation look like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13smp1qfmR4&context=C4eec1baADvjVQa1PpcFMCZNHDa9vYBtRnZHiz1mHPK7DDQRp6ObY=

What did we see?

Collaboration 1.

???? 2.

How we use time is CRITICALHow much time is wasted in a school day?

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How we use time is CRITICALHow much time is wasted in a school day?

Spaces are a "cage"

How can you re-engineer these spaces cost effectively?

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Changing people and processes

Is training enough?1.Working towards clear and shared goals - bricklayer tale2.Change requires multiple component working together3.

ROI is critical:4.

Step 1 - move to activity based costing -

Traditional cost report Activity based cost report

Teaching salaries $5.0m Classroom teaching $2.5m

Managing discipline $0.8

Examination and testing $0.7

Administration $0.6

Absence and illness $0.3

Insurances $0.1

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Insurances $0.1

$5.0m $5.0m

Step 2 - map inputs to outcomes

Programme Financial Benefits Efficiency Benefits (cash equivalent)

Human Capital Benefits

Redevelop learning spaces $1.0m

Reduced facilities management

-$10,000

Longer periods = 20% more time “on learning tasks”

-$1.2mAcademic Qualifications

Vocational Qualifications

21st Century Skills

Improvement in Contextual Value Add

Staff reorientation $300,000

More flexible staffing

- $50,000

Reduced staff turnover

-$100,000

ICT $200,000 Reduction in admin and communication

-$40,000

Enhanced staff performance

-$100,000

$1.5m -$100,000 -$1.4m 500 units of learning output

Use KPIs 5.

Use a governance method that applies pressure, but also gives support:6.

Technology - the critical catalyst for change

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First Steps Enhanced Strategic Transformed

Access to

Opportunities

Access to

Technology

Frequent Access

To ICT Enabled

Learning

Opportunities

Connected

Learning

Communities

Anytime

Anywhere

Learning For

All

Effective

Learning E-Teaching E-Learning

Intelligent

Intervention

Personalised

Learning

Efficient

Operations

Improved

Organisation

Monitoring,

Analysis and

Planning

Process

Integration

Culture of

Performance

Schooling Enterprise Technical Architecture

First Steps Enhanced Strategic Transformed

Access Infrastructure Off-Grid Grid Wireless Pervasive Broadband

Devices Shared Allocated Personal Ubiquitous and Varied

System

Management

Classroom

Orchestration

Network

ManagementAutomated Predictive

Support &

Training

Basic concepts,

new methodsService Desk Student Helpdesk

Pre-emptive

Engineering

Learning Creativity Visual toolsVisual and Auditory

tools

Visual, Auditory &

Kinaesthetic

Problem Based

Learning

Team-working Productivity Communication Collaboration Co-production

Content Digitised Books Multimedia Interactive Student-produced

Learning

ManagementVLE E-Assessment

Intelligent

Intervention

Personalised, Dynamic

Timetabling

Operations ResourcingReactive

Resourcing

Targeted

ResourcingDecision Support Decision Automation

Managing the

InstitutionMonitor Analyse Plan

Culture of

Performance

Data ServicesInformed

JudgementInsights Integration Automated Workflows

Service

Platform

Classroom

NetworkSchool Network

Community

Network

National Grid for

Learning

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Grounds for Optimism - where investments in technology have paid off:

New South Wales•Guatemala•Greece•Latvia •UK, Monkseaton•

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