Making the e-strategy happen – the new role for Becta Mike Briscoe Assistant Director

E-strategy: vision Each individual maximises their potential through the personalisation of their learning and development

Harnessing Technology: the e-strategy as an enabler 2004: Personalisation and choice Flexibility and independence Opening up services Staff development Partnerships 2006: Put users at the heart of all we do Continue to improve performance across the system Work more effectively with partners E-strategy: the contributions ICT and e-learning can make: Transforming teaching, learning and support Connecting with hard to reach groups Opening up an accessible, collaborative system Improving efficiency and effectiveness Educational outcomes: 1.Closing the gap in educational attainment between those from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers 2.Continue to raise standards for all across the educational system 3.Increasing the proportion of young people staying on in education or training beyond the age of 16 4.Reducing the number of young people on a path to failure in adult life 5.Closing the skills gap at all levels – to keep pace with the challenge of globalisation

What does this mean for the learner? All educational providers –get the best out of current and future technologies to improve the quality of learning and raise standards –regard using technology for learning as an essential but normal and integrated aspect of their teaching, learning, assessment and management practices All learners harness technology: more choice and chances to learn in a way that suits them best All learners have greater opportunities to learn inside and outside formal education

What’s the problem? Currently too few schools, colleges and training providers take all the actions needed to reap these benefits – marginal to mainstream Strong moral argument that all providers should gain the clear benefits for learners and improve the effectiveness and overall efficiency of the education system

4. Raising standards 3. Choice 2. Productive time 1. Efficiency Recent findings – increased use of technology Greater efficiency right across the system, delivery, admin, management More time for teaching Increases learner choice, opportunity and quality of learner experience 1/3 rd of surveyed FE lecturers reported recently that their use of technology over last 3 years had improved student achievement Evidence

The e-strategy: Phase 1 - setting the conditions for transformation Learners/providers able to use the technology effectively to increase performance Collaboration and partnership, influence and challenge National debate: drive reform, enable change, personalise learning and raise standards of skills and achievement Enabling lateral transfer of best practice across sector More discerning customers (learners, employers)

Workforce capability Fit for purpose technology (capacity) Outcomes for learners System outcomes Scorecard of inputs and outcomes

Greater choice, opportunities and ways of learning Less under- performance and greater success for all Accelerated improvement in quality of provision 5 key outcomes for learners Higher motivation and engagement Improved child safety and protection

Providers collaborate and share information and resources More effective, personalised assessment for learning Practitioners collaborate and share good practice and resources 5 key system outcomes Management and administration delivers better VFM Better use of information to improve transition

Use technology to learn away from the institution Has a wide range of generic technology skills Able to learn new skills as needed Has high level of information literacy technology confident learner Knows when technology can assist their learning Prepared to explore and experiment in their use of technology Can talk about the way technology can enhance their learning Can select appropriate tool for the task Uses technology creatively, with ease, in life outside formal learning

Delivering the future for learners: harnessing technology 7 th November 2006

David Bell, Permanent Secretary, DfES: “In order to increase the competitiveness of our businesses in a global market, we need to increase the skills level of our future and current employees. We need to ensure that employers and providers collaborate to design and offer training flexibly, in a way that really focuses on business need.”

Stephen Crowne, CEO Becta: “The bottom line is that we now have an increasingly compelling business case for investing the right way in the right technology.”

Workforce capability Fit for purpose technology (capacity) Outcomes for learners System outcomes Scorecard of inputs and outcomes

The e-Strategy Delivery Model

Strategic Outcomes: balanced scorecard

Key messages for our industry partners You have the opportunity to influence strategy via formal and informal consultations, seminars and workshops. Becta has published the 'Quality principles for digital learning resources', developed in consultation with the industry –concerning teaching, learning, and the design and use of digital learning resources. We are currently consulting on the 'reasonable adjustment' that providers should make to meet the requirements of the special educational needs and disability act, and we will shortly be publishing our strategy for personalised content. We have developed a range of specifications that will deliver our vision of a national digital infrastructure, developed in consultation with industry and the education sector, to provide a sustainable and coherent national infrastructure for education

Key messages for our industry partners Specifications exist for insitutional infrastructure, learning platform services, information management, connectivity, and the National Education Network design criteria. We are currently working with the Schools Interoperability Framework Association to design a Uk national interoperability standard for data movement and sharing. ( We have let a range of EU-compliant framework contracts for the supply of technology services to the UK education sector. Suppliers have committed to supplying services to Becta's specifications. Schools and colleges are not obliged to use our frameworks to purchase their IT services. Other suppliers encouraged to deliver services to the specifications, and education purchasers increasingly expecting suppliers to do so. For details of our strategic thinking and advice, and opportunties to get involved including our communities area

Press release 7 December 2006 Becta today announces the appointment of five executive directors, following an open competition: Ian Adams, Executive Director Partnerships, Commissioning, Marketing and Communications Alan Cowie, Executive Director Business Delivery and Organisational Development Stephen Lucey, Executive Director Strategic Technologies Niel McLean, Executive Director Institutional Workforce and Development Tony Richardson, Executive Director Strategy and Policy

Making the e-strategy happen – the new role for Becta Mike Briscoe Assistant Director