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Department for Education and Skills England

E-LEARNING STRATEGY. Department for Education and Skills England. Atul Sharda. E LEARNING STRATEGIC AIMS. To create an accessible infrastructure which makes ICT universally available to learners

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Department for Education and Skills England

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  1. E-LEARNING STRATEGY Department for Education and SkillsEngland Atul Sharda

  2. E LEARNING STRATEGIC AIMS • To create an accessible infrastructure which makes ICT universally available to learners • To make ICT integral to all our learning processes and to stimulate the development and acceptance of new ways of learning • To create, implement and support a dynamic framework for ICT skills and a corresponding framework for teachers

  3. BROADER GOALS AND TARGETS • Universal Internet access by 2005 • Computer: pupil ratios • Targets for KS3 ICT • UK online • Digital divide • Broadband Britain

  4. VEHICLES AND INITIATIVES • Schools: computers in the classroom and at home, Curriculum Online, training for teachers • Further and higher education: SuperJANET high speed network, computers, National Learning Network, eUniversities • Lifelong learning for adults: UK Online Centres, learndirect

  5. ACHIEVEMENTS • 97% of all schools connected to the Internet at April 2001 compared to only 28% in 1998 • 100% of universities and further education colleges have broadband connectivity through the high speed SuperJANET teaching and research network • Computer ratios have improved in all sectors • Over 2100 UK Online centres are open • Over 50% of teachers have signed up for ICT training;and over a quarter of teachers have so far completed training. • Two thirds (67%) of colleges report use of the Internet to support distance learning compared to 26% in 1999

  6. APPROACH • Work with the private sector, the ICT and the education sector • Work at regional and local levels as well as national • Initiatives to stimulate the market, address digital divide issues, put in place infrastructure, and address priorities and gaps • Move emphasis from infrastructure towards content and skills • Transfer good practice between sectors

  7. CHALLENGES • Technical support & improved supplier performance • Broadband • Home access • Ensuring high quality digital learning materials • Developing ICT skills at all levels • Use of ICT to reduce burdens on teachers • Online assessment • Standards and interoperability • Sustainability • Embedding e learning in practice

  8. PRIORITIES • The classroom of the future • The e-learning journey from school to college and on to work and lifelong learning • Move emphasis from infrastructure towards content and skills • Integration of e-learning at all points in learning • Skills for users, practitioners and enablers • Research, evaluation, evidence

  9. Department for Education and Skills England Atul.Sharda@dfes.gsi.gov.uk

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