Warwickshire PFI Proposal

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Warwickshire PFI Proposal
Warwickshire e-Learning Community
Managed E-learning Service
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PFI / ICT Project

• How can the use of
• ICT
• impact on
• Teaching Learning
• to
• Raise Standards

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Project Objectives

• Raise the standard of pupils learning across the
  curriculum.
• Increase motivation in pupils.
• Improved levels of staff satisfaction.
• Promote the development and organisation of
  suitable educational e-learning content.
• Bring together groups of schools to raise
  standards.

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Improving Teaching Learning

• Using interactive technologies to enhance and
  extend opportunities
• Embedding ICT into the curriculum
• Extensive professional development
• Developing professional resources
• Sharing good practice

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Project Scope

• All pupils from Year 5 to Year 11
• 38,000 Pupils
• 2,100 Teachers
• Focus on National Curriculum Subjects
• English, Mathematics, Science, Geography,
  History, ICT, Design Technology, Modern Foreign
  Languages.

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Warwickshire PFI Vision

• Provide e-learning Environments with Interactive
  Resources
• Enrich and extend the range and scope of
  resources and experiences available to teachers
  and learners
• Organise and develop World Class educational
  content, improving scope, accessibility and
  quality
• Provide professional Development for Teachers
• Use Warwickshires high bandwidth Intranet
  connectivity to distribute resources

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Enhancing Learning Opportunities

• Effective use of ICT gives teachers a variety of
  ways to present new concepts and skills appealing
  to all learning styles.
• Pupils, as well as being more motivated by the
  nature of the resources, also indicated how the
  resources were shifting their abilities to take
  concepts and ideas on board, due to the visual
  nature of the presentation of concepts
• Don Passey, Senior Research Fellow, Lancaster
  University

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Components of an e-Learning Service?

• Appropriate Hardware
• the teachers toolkit
• Appropriate Software
• Managed Learning Environment
• Digital Resources
• Management and Maintenance
• Helpdesk
• Teacher Training Professional Development
• Operational skills and Pedagogical skills

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Designing the toolkit

• It must work first time every time
• No universal solution
• Primary / Secondary
• Interactive whiteboard / Tablet

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D. Wireless Projector

• Software solution CCSR
• Capture screen (changes) / Compress / Send /
  Render
• High data rate over Radio
• Fast rendering in projector
• 24 fps at projected resolution
• No LAN access

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C. Wireless LAN

• High data rate so quality of projected image is
  limited by available bandwidth and current
  network load.

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B. Wireless Remote Control

• Low data rate as low quality image on wireless
  client is acceptable
• Limited by capability of integrated computer (OS,
  speed)

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A. The Modular Solution

• Low data rate
• Failover to wired PC
• Allows standard connections to peripherals

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A Flexible Solution
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Products in use today

• Sony Projector with integrated PC(VPL-PX15 uses
  early Windows CE )
• Epson Fast but only WiFi (EMP-735)
• NetOp School 2.51

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A Day in the Life
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Replicability Wider Impact

• This project will bring about a transformation in
  teaching and learning
• Given appropriate resources and support this
  project could be replicated in other LEAs
• Warwickshire would wish to actively promote
  collaboration with other LEAs

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Next Steps
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Procurement Timetable
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Procurement Timetable