Post on 15-Dec-2015
e-learningstrategies & communities
• Providing the essential infrastructure• Developing educational workforce• Building a better elearning market• Building collaborative partnerships
working with national e-learning communities
• Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence
• Embracing the new pedagogies
33 local authorities
2,500 schools
64,000 teachers
1m pupils
10mb to secondary
5mb to primary
600 point video-conf
VLE portal
25mb webspace
Web templates
LGFL’s e-learning infrastructure
Gate A MLE
On Line, On Track
Executive Board
Editorial Board
4 Sector boards
Premium content
Content management system
Web visitor
Centrally-provided content
Simple content management system
Logon needed but only for some content
Portal user
Centrally-provided content and services (webmail, video-conf etc)
Own webspace
Logon needed for services
VLE participant
Active use of own webspace to create and distribute content
Teacher/school/LEA creation of courses
Sharing of resources across school/LEA/Grid
MLE member
Complete management system of content and users
Includes learning and assessment
Integrated into school MIS
Essential part of course delivery
e-learning on LGFL – definition by user?
Developing educational workforce (Primary)
•KS1 AST teacher – Belinda Evans Brindishe School, Lewisham
•Bethnal Green Museum of Childhoodlocal Resource member
•QCA scheme of Work for KS1 History unit 1
‘How are our toys different from those in the past? ’
Developing educational workforce (secondary)
•KS3 and 4 Citizenship
•ProQuest Learning
•Supporting GCSE coursework
Supporting innovation in e-learning
•Over 50% of London primary schools have bought Infant Video Toolbox
•LGFL/2Simple Online Talking Stories are written in English and read out in English, Urdu, Turkish, Gujerat and Punjabi
•Topics include the Great Fire of London, a trip down the Thames from Westminster to Woolwich, a seaside trip, a London market and a London Park
Building a better e-learning market
A London/Espresso e-learning community Develop London content
History Live – Geography Live?
• Share design template across KS3/4 subjects
• Work with KS3 Foundation consultants on identifying content
• Pay for development = ‘free’ content
CLEO-LGFL Geography Collaborative Learning Project
The project will twin classes in Haringey, North London with ones in Cumbria and
Lancashire with a view to developing children’s understanding of what it would be
like to live in a different locality.The project is aimed at Year 5 classes, but could be undertaken by years 4
or 6. It covers many aspects of the geography QCA Scheme of work Contrasting
Localities unit. The proposal suggests the following stages:
Where are you? What’s our class like? Daily DiaryWrite a PictureVideo conference/video exchange
Building collaborative partnershipsworking with national e-learning communities
•Users will only be able to access the free hi-res content from a machine that is physically connected to the local RBC. This is our guarantee to British Pathe that all users of the free content are from the educational sector.•Content hosted within the RBC community•The licence is between British Pathe and the English RBC’s. If others want to join the licence consortium, they would need to pay £3,000 to the holding RBC
•Free access to the hi-res Windows media files will be available once user authentification trials have been completed•Free access to QuickTime versions of the files will available when they are finished, sometime in January•Free access to 2 million photos in the British Pathe library will be available once user authentification trials have been completed
British Pathe – conditions of the licence
Embracing the new pedagogiesAnd whilst we weren’t looking
this happened ….
• Haringey an on-line course for KS3 Literacy
•Hammersmith and Fulhamresources library
• RBKCfocal point for schools action
Embracing the new pedagogies
And whilst we weren’t looking
some teachers did this ….
•Rockliffe Manor, Greenwich
•Anson, Brent
e-learningstrategies & communities
• Providing the essential infrastructure• Developing educational workforce• Building a better elearning market• Building collaborative partnerships
working with national e-learning communities
• Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence
• Embracing the new pedagogies