1. EUs Information Society Forum Steering Group Member, from 1995 Principal, BHC 1990-94 & Newark & Sherwood College 1995-2006 UfI Design & Implementation Group Member 1997-8 Member of Higginson Committee, (and then NLN boards) from1994 Chair, JISC MLE Steering Group, then Member JISC Member, DELG & JIG Groups Chair, NLN Programme Board Board Member 2004/6 Co-Founder of NILTA (then NAITFE) 1989 v-jogra@microsoft.com 35+ Year Career In Education, College Principal 16 years UK & EU Assignments Over 20 Year Period Now Doing Research, London University Institute of Education And Strategy Consultancy Work for Microsoft & Other Companies http://planar-research.org v-jogra@microsoft.com 35+ Year Career In Education, College Principal 16 years UK & EU Assignments Over 20 Year Period Now Doing Research, London University Institute of Education And Strategy Consultancy Work for Microsoft & Other Companies http://planar-research.org Universities - A Changing World

2. Significant globalisation led change? Longer working lives, many careers, needing continuous skill development? English the business language still ? Do we still travel to work.. ? Or to Learn? World 2025 100$ Changed! Chinese? Certain. Challenge! Are Our Institutions Ready For All This? UNESCO & Microsoft, Education Leaders Forum Paris 7/8 July 2008 Success and Sustainability: Tertiary Educations Global Challenge

3. e-Transformations The MIT Management In The 90s model transformed our thinking about technology-led change… Localised Coordinated Transformative Embedded Innovative … and, later, gave the vocabulary for UK Bectas e-maturity model IBMs development of MIT ideas gave an early business rationale for learner-centred planning... … and, in the mid-1990s, the University for Industry signalled another phase of transformational change in UK Tertiary education... So, are our institutions ready for whats ahead?

4. JG Letter, with free copy of the book to all UK colleges, Sept 1996 …there are massive changes, and there is a growing recognition that they cannot be sustained on the basis of traditional models of teaching and learning alone Early LE Thoughts … focussed on processes not products Mapped UK Higher Eds business social and technical processes, and influenced JISCs 2001 MLE thinking.. Change depends on lots of factors.... and success depends on paying attention to all of them!

5. MLE JISC 2002 EDI SCORM IMS XML Performance Point Server SharePoint SLK,Blackboard, Moodle, W2.0 SQL Server Processes Standards Products

6. Ready For What ? An e-Readiness Framework Any Vice Chancellor, Rector or Principal has lots of e agendas to consider … e-learning epicentre … What Is Microsofts interest in this? … What can MS Offer?

7. Microsoft's Aims In Higher Education If Anoop Gupta had been here … Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Education Products & Solutions Technology Policy & Strategy.. he would have talked about the growth of non-traditional students in the USAs Higher Ed student profile … … something which we also see across Europe, and which will be extended by the Bologna changes … Improve the efficiency of education systems Create powerful learning communities Enhance learning with powerful software tools Enable student-centered learning Broaden access to education.. and we aim to help Tertiary Education …

8. Give learners and employers what they expect to get nowadays … Empower tutors with easy-to- use technology that leverages their efforts ….. By Providing A Scalable, Cost- Effective, Integrating All Your Systems Add value to management from the administrative & business intelligence processes …. MS Learning Gateway Framework

9. Sorbonne Declaration 1998 We are heading for a period of major change in education and working conditions, to a diversification of courses of professional careers with education and training throughout life becoming a clear obligation. We owe our students, and our society at large, a higher education system in which they are given the best opportunities to seek and find their own area of excellence. e-Bologna …. Q? Mmmmm.. Mobility… Credit Transfer… Diploma Supplements … e-learning … e-assessment … employer-based learning … lots to get e-Ready for!

10. Your Support Contacts in Microsoft Italy Alessandro Cannarsi Direttore settore Education alessandro.cannarsi@microsoft.com Alessandro Adamo Responsabile comunicazione e marketing alessandro.adamo@microsoft.com