Taking Total Cost of Ownership to the Classroom

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International Efforts Around Open Technologies in
K-12 DELC Conversation Dec 9, 2005 Keith
Krueger, CEO Consortium for School Networking

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• About CoSN
• Founded in 1992, the Consortium for School
  Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit
  organization, is the premier voice in education
  technology leadership.
• Mission
• To advance the K-12 education communitys
  capacity to effectively use technology to improve
  learning through advocacy, policy and leadership
  development.

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• Members
• Key members are school districts, as well as
  state and local education agencies, nonprofits,
  companies and individuals
• The primary contact in school district members
  are key technology leaders - Chief Technology
  Officers/CTOs/etc.

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• PREMISE
• The greatest impediment to successful use of
  technology in education in primarily HUMAN, not
  technical nor technological.

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Purpose of Todays Presentation

• Building on Jims presentation on the political,
  social financial context around open
  technologies
• Where is the rest of the world?
• What resources/tools do U.S. educators need
  around this topic?

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World Is Flat and Getting Flatter

• Thomas Friedman in The World Is Flat identifies
  Open Source as one of the 10 major trends that is
  flattening the world and enabling globalization.

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Many countries are moving aggressively on open
source

• Brazil
• Africa
• Europe
• Australia
• India
• China
• Welljust about all of the world

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But Open Technologies is more than open source
software

• Interoperability of Data
• New Service Support Models
• New forms of Open Content
• Hardware devices utilizing open standards and
  open source software

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International Examples of Open Course Management
Systems

• Canada Atutor is a full featured open LCMS
  system
• New Zealand Interact is an open source online
  learning and collaborate platform
• Australia Moodle is a complete online course
  management system 1.6 million users

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International Research Standards Efforts

• Britain Australia formal studies of TCO of
  open source
• Standards
• SIF
• SCORM
• Dublin Core

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New Commercial Models

• Australia
• School management tools built in open source and
  utilizing open standards. Schools contract for
  Managed Internet Services.
• Example
• myInternet provides services to 1.5 million
  teachers and students www.myinternet.com.au

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New Philanthropic Efforts

• Announced at WSIS meeting in Tunis last week is a
  new Open Educational Resources initiative funded
  by Hewlett Foundation
• www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/Technology/tuni
  sia.htm
• Range of programs by Shuttleworth Foundation in
  Africa
• www.shuttleworthfoundation.org
• World Bank UN promoting Free Open Software

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New Open Content

• Wikipedia - 850,000 articles
• Library of Congress World Digital Library NEW
• NY Public Librarys Digital Image
• Google Open Online Library
• MITs Open Courseware Project
• Open Content Alliance (Yahoo, Adobe, Microsoft)
• Etc., etc., etc.

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Resources

• CoSNs Primer on Open Technologies
• School Forge at www.schoolforge.net
• Creative Commons Project at creativecommons.org
• Contract Commons project at dotank.nyls.edu/Contra
  ctCommons.html

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CoSN Wants YOUR Ideas

• Yet, there really has been limited discussion of
  Open Technology by U.S. educators.
• CoSN is exploring the creation of a new
  Leadership Initiative around this topic.

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Small Group activity

• For the next 25 minutes, work in your small group
  and identify specific tools and resources that
  U.S. educators need to better understand Open
  Technologies.
• (e.g. case studies, technical guides,
  workshops, web tools, self-assessment tools, etc.)

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Small Group reports

• Identify a leader to report out your best ideas.
• If another group has indicated same type of idea,
  simply indicate you agree.

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Tools Resources for Tech Leaders

• CoSN provides a range of resources for
  educational technology leaders targeted for those
  at the district level.

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Taking Total Cost of Ownership to the Classroom
www.classroomtco.org Helping School Leaders to
Plan and Budget More Accurately for Education
Technology, Including Ongoing Direct and Indirect
Costs
CoSN/Gartner FREE tool to allow you to calculate
TCO, plus 8 TCO case studies Platinum sponsor
Sprint Gold sponsors HP, Dell, Texas
Instruments Media partner CDW-G/EdTech Magazine
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Accessible Technologies for All Students

• www.accessibletech4all.org
• Increased Achievement and Success for All
  Students Through the Use of Accessible
  Technologies

Case studies, resources and tips for
success Platinum sponsor Sprint Gold sponsors
AlphaSmart, Apple, ETS, gh LLC, IntelliTools,
Kurzweil Educational Systems, Verizon Media
partner eSchool News
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Cyber Security for the Digital District

• www.securedistrict.org
• Ensuring Security of School Networks

Tools to self assess security, plan for the
unexpected and improve communication between the
Superintendent and CTO Platinum sponsors
SurfControl, Symantec Gold Sponsors BellSouth,
Microsoft, Sun Microsystems Media partner
Technology Learning
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Data Driven Decision-Making
www.3d2know.org Enabling Educators to Think
Strategically about the Use of Data Driven
Decision-Making
Free self assessment tool, case studies and an
overview reports Platinum sponsors ETS, IBM,
SAS Additional sponsors Co-nect, Dell, Pearson
School Systems, PLATO Learning, Power School,
SchoolNet, Texas Instruments Media partner
Scholastic Administr_at_tor
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CoSN Essential Leadership Skills Series

• www.cosn.org/resources/essential/
• Professional Development Resources for the
  District Level Technology Decision Maker and Her
  Staff

Smart Budgeting with Total Cost of
Ownership Backgrounder and workshop CD with
participant workbook Measuring Success How Will
We Know When We Get There? Backgrounder Technology
Planning Linked to Educational
Goals Backgrounder
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CTO Council

• www.cosn.org/resources/cto_council/
• Providing resources and professional development
  opportunities for school district CTOs (Chief
  Technology Officers)
• Mission
• Professional Development
• Knowledge Sharing
• Knowledge Transfer
• Media partner Education Week

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Emerging Technologies Reports

• NEW Digital Learning Spaces 2010
• Hot Technologies for K-12 Schools
• Guide to Handheld Computing in K-12 Schools
• Guide to Wireless LANs in K-12 Schools
• updated Winter 2005
• Sponsors ADC Foundation, Alcatel, and Education
  Networks of America
• www.cosn.org/resources/emerging_technologies

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Keith Krueger, CEO CoSN 1710 Rhode Island Avenue
NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 200036 202.861.2676 ww
w.cosn.org