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e-learning strategies & communities. David Mason Content manager. e-learning strategies & communities. Providing the essential infrastructure Developing educational workforce Building a better elearning market Building collaborative partnerships working with national e-learning communities
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e-learningstrategies & communities David Mason Content manager
e-learningstrategies & communities • Providing the essential infrastructure • Developing educational workforce • Building a better elearning market • Building collaborative partnershipsworking with national e-learning communities • Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence • Embracing the new pedagogies
LGFL’s e-learning infrastructure 10mb to secondary 5mb to primary 600 point video-conf 33 local authorities 2,500 schools 64,000 teachers 1m pupils Premium content Content management system Executive Board Editorial Board 4 Sector boards VLE portal 25mb webspace Web templates Gate A MLE On Line, On Track
e-learning on LGFL – definition by user? 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
Developing educational workforce (Primary) • KS1 AST teacher – Belinda Evans Brindishe School, Lewisham • Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood local 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
History Live – Geography Live? • Share design template across KS3/4 subjects • Work with KS3 Foundation consultants on identifying content • Pay for development = ‘free’ content
Building collaborative partnershipsworking with national e-learning communities 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 Diary Write a Picture Video conference/video exchange
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 • 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
Embracing the new pedagogies • And whilst we weren’t looking • this happened …. • Haringey an on-line course for KS3 Literacy • Hammersmith and Fulhamresources library • RBKCfocal point for schools action
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 partnershipsworking with national e-learning communities • Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence • Embracing the new pedagogies