Becta and BSF

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Becta and BSF
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First things first
Building Design
Organisational Design
Learner
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Provide all learners with access to learning
where and when they need it, supported learners
Learner
Support new approaches to teaching and learning
engaged learners
Allow for this learning to be recognised
appropriately recognised learners
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Support a culture of learning within a community.
Excellence Awards

• Reviewing organisational
• structures
• processes
• boundaries
• and the implications for workforce and resource
  leadership and management.
• NCSL BSF leadership programme

Organisational Design
Learner
Transform the ways in which learning is
provided through new Institutional models.
Self-review framework
Break down existing barriers between schools,
the communities they serve, phases of education,
and formal and informal learning. ICT and
design
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Better procurement options Framework Agreements
Fit for purpose technology and systems
Organisational Design
Learner
Reviewing new and emerging technologies
Targeted support for capital programmes
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• Visit Becta at Stand J40
• Thankyou
• Niel Mclean
• Peter Wain
• Nina Woodcock

Building Design
Organisational Design
Learner
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Functional and Technical Specifications

• School ICT infrastructure
• Learning platforms
• Detailed breakdown of the features which
  learners, educators and administrators should
  expect
• Used to evaluate suppliers for Framework
  Agreements
• Have been incorporated into BSF output
  specifications

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Emerging Technologies

• Review of new and emerging technologies
• Exploration of innovative practice
• Development of a sound knowledge base
• Provide advice for policy makers, institutions
  and practitioners
• E.g. recent research reports on thin client

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Targeted support

• Team providing dedicated support to Academies
  programme
• Developing support to schools and LAs in the BSF
  programme
• particularly one-school pathfinders
• Becta work closely with Partnerships for Schools
  team

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Framework Agreements

• Becta sets up OJEU compliant Framework Agreements
  providing purchasing routes which
• are tailored to the education sector
• offer value for money
• are monitored and evaluated by Becta
• Examples
• Consultancy Services
• Infrastructure Services
• Learning Platform Services

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Consultancy Services

• Consultancy services available under the
  framework include
• the educational use of ICT
• technical implementation of ICT
• ICT procurement
• 21 suppliers on the framework
• Further information
• www.becta.org.uk/schools/consultancy

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Infrastructure Services

• 6 elements available can choose most
  appropriate for need
• Design - Maintenance
• Provision - Implementation
• Service and Support - Training
• 16 suppliers on the framework
• Further information
• www.becta.org.uk/schools/infrastructureservices

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Learning Platform Services

• Provide managed services to offer learning
  platform
• Service rather than product approach
• Can include proprietary and open source
  components
• based on functional requirements and technical
  specifications for learning platforms
• 10 suppliers on the framework
• Further information
• www.becta.org.uk/schools/procurement

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ICT Excellence Awards

• ICT Excellence Awards 2007 Categories
• 7 categories for schools, split into Primary
  (3-11) and Secondary (11-18) sub-categories
• Best Whole School, Assessment, Curriculum,
  Extending Learning Opportunities, Inclusion,
• Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching
• New category for Support Providers
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• Open for entries until 23 March 2007.
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• www.becta.org.uk/excellenceawards
• Shortlisted schools and organisations will be
  visited by judges between May and July 2007.
• Winners announced at a ceremony in November 2007.
   
• New DVD featuring films on ICT Excellence Awards
  2006 winners - Showcasing exemplary schools -
  available by email from excellenceawards_at_becta.org
  .uk

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Self-review framework

• Developed and supported by all National agencies
• 100 professionals contributed to its development
• Building on the work of Ofsteds Common
  Evaluation Framework
• Online self review tool with
• Action planning
• Links to support materials
• Benchmarking
• Evidence examples
• Linked to ICT mark accreditation

Using the framework has enabled us to identify
our strengths and provide a clear direction and
pathway for us to follow Jeff Smith Headteacher
Anson Primary School
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The Elements of the self-review framework
Impact on the Learner
Professional development
Resources
Leadership and management
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Coherence
Strategy in place
Made a start
Aspirational
Nothing in place
E-Mature
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Next steps Register with the self-review
framework www.becta.org.uk/schools/selfreviewframe
work Decide which elements of the self-review
framework to tackle first Use the self-review
framework to review ICT prior to BSF announcement
or involvement ie NOW!
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NCSL BSF leadership programme

• Programme structure
• Think scenarios, rethink learning the role of
  technology in future learning environments
• Building the vision The strategic vision for
  technology in the future
• Changing the context the ubiquitous presence of
  technology
• www.ncsl.org.uk/bsf

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ICT and design

• Becta together with PfS and the Construction
  Industry Council have developed a tool for aiding
  thinking in this area
• ICT quality indicators and aligned with the
  School Design Quality Indicators
• LAs and schools can use them to develop the
  process of designing ICT alongside designing
  schools

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Designing Spaces for Effective Learning (JISC)

• Flexible to accommodate current and evolving
  pedagogies
• Future-proofed to enable re-allocation and
  re-configuration
• Bold to look beyond tried and tested pedagogies
  and technologies
• Creative to energise and inspire learners
• Supportive to develop the potential of all
  learners
• Enterprising capable of supporting different
  purposes

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Space supporting learning

• General teaching space
• Vocational learning space
• Open access space
• Social space
• Display space
• Personal space

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Learning impact on space

• mobile learning enables the learning to bring and
  take learning away
• connected learning enables learning to be
  accessed from anywhere
• interactive learning requires a range of
  technologies to be available
• visual learning requires presentation
  technologies to be available
• supported learning requires accessible technology
  to be available
• Flexible designs for flexible learning