London Grid for Learning 10th July 2007

Agenda Fronter and the London MLE for the future Roger Larsen, Managing Director, Fronter Experiences from pilot training (june-july) Ingun Vagli, Training Manager, Fronter Academy Implementation of the London MLE Malcolm Edmunds, Education Manager, Fronter UK

Mission: Provide easy to use tools for learning and collaboration on the web. The Fronter Company  Founded in Norway in 1998  2,500+ schools in Europe with 2,5 million users  Approx. 75 colleagues in 8 countries  Three times winner of the European seal of Excellence for ICT in gold  NCSL talk2learn since 2003  Becta approved Learning Platform Services Supplier

Implementation process 1. Order request by school / LA 2. Order confirmation by LGfL 3. Service User Agreement signed 4. SMT session & LA involvement (change management) 5. MIS integration & setup 6. Training of two school users 7. Follow up workshop

Two yearly releases December: Fronter X1 June: Fronter X2 …where X is the year, and 1 and 2 is the release that year.

Fronter 72 (June 07) Web Parts for Microsoft Sharepoint Portal RSS feed Internal ”Intellisearch” SMS messaging Attendance registration

Web Parts for Microsoft Sharepoint Portal

RSS feed out from Fronter

Fronter 73 (September 07) Fronter Integration System External content search (SRW) Child interface Dynamic page designer 8 e-learning modules for self training

Comprehensive MIS integration Direct using IMS entreprise and eportfolio Indirect using Schools Interoperability Framework

External content search...

...from within the learning platform Live demo

Child interface

Fronter 81 (December 07) Parental portal Peer review Shibboleth Pan London content archive Portfolio school to school transfer

Other on-going developments Dynamic interfaces (drag’n’drop, etc) API and re-factoring Customer portal

Future…?

2. generation 3. generation 1. generation 4. generation 5. generation LMS Learning Management Systems Standard packages 1997 MLE Managed Learning Environment Integrated solutions 2002 "homemade" systems WEB Web pages & home grown systems 1994 PLE Personal Learning Environment Lifelong eportfolio 2005 CWE Collaborative Working Environment Web desktop & rich applications ??? Learning Platform History

Building Schools for the Future with a £50 pure web-pc? Only a web browser running Fronter and advanced web applications Is this computing for the Future?

Experience from pilot training Ingun Vaglid

The pilot One week – 29 schools – 7 trainers on each course, admin and teacher 1 day admin 1 day teacher training

Courses and help ”Train the trainer course” – to become Fronter trainer (4 days + 1) ”LA courses” – to handle to top admininistrator role and to be familiar with the functionalities for teachers and student s (2 days) ”School training” – teacher and admin training (2 days) Additional courses E-learning courses (9 x 20 min courses) Documentation Support – 9am to 17pm, and

Monthly courses ”Train the trainer course” –first week in every month –refreshment day once per month ”LA courses” –every second week ”School training” –every week Additional courses –on request Training plan: fronter.com/lgfl

Implementation of the London MLE Malcolm Edmunds

London MLE SMT Workshops 20 pilot schools visited so far Visits were judged either good or very useful Most developed a clear implementation plan Some schools requested that a product demonstration be included in the future as some staff had not seen the London MLE All the schools liked the 1 to 1 approach of the meetings All schools appreciated the presence of a MLE Consultant All schools agreed to provide case study materials

Thank you for listening!