Denver, CO Research Roundtable 2013

What are the Changes? • Traditional Learning Models and Curriculum are

Shifting • In K-12, Common Core is Setting a New Standard

Budget • K-12 is Improving • Higher Education is Losing Ground

Education Is Transforming • Network Infrastructure Upgrades • Addition of Computing Devices • Online Learning/Applications

Education Market Outlook

What are Colorado’s Issues? Budget/Overview • Total K-12 Budget: $4.2 Billion • Estimated IT Budget: $84,778,285 • 178 school districts, 1,780 schools, 840,000 public school students

Sequestration • Colorado stands to lose $85 million in federal funding • School readiness programs and Title 1 funds are at-risk

Legislative Priorities • School finance, teacher licensing, undocumented student tuition, and

school security

Strategic Plans in Colorado

Key Priorities • Further develop the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP)

which will bring a more strategic assessment tool to districts

• Improve transparency in districts and hold leaders responsible while granting them the authority and tools to effectuate change

• Develop and support better teachers and better principals using more integrated technologies in the classroom

• Create and expand career-oriented partnerships with community-based organizations and businesses

• Moving to Mobile

• Digital Content & Curriculum

• Connectivity Challenged • Unlocking Data

Four Big Trending Areas

Mobility Who’s Bringing Their Own Device Nationally?

• 60% of students are bringing a personal device to class and using the campus network

• 83% of faculty and staff are bringing a personal device to

class and using the campus network.

• More than 50% of districts incorporate mobile devices into their curriculum content

Digital Content Out with the Old…

• 48% of students want faculty to incorporate more digital content into instruction

• 65% of school districts currently have a digital content strategy and 28% are developing one

• 64% of K-12 students use digital content in the classroom

Connectivity

• 87% of K-12 IT professionals say they need to upgrade their infrastructure to incorporate digital content

• 55% K-12 say wireless connectivity is a key component of

that upgrade • Supporting advanced applications like learning

applications (31%), online testing (28%) and video streaming (30%), networks are inadequate

Connectivity is Inadequate

Network Demand is Increasing Internet Email Learning Applications

Online Testing

Video Streaming

Completely meets our needs 56% 72% 31% 28% 30%

Mostly meets our needs 33% 24% 36% 33% 40%

Sometimes meets our needs 9% 4% 23% 22% 17%

Rarely meets our needs 2% 0% 6% 6% 6%

Does not meet our needs 0% 1% 1% 5% 5%

Don’t know 0% 0% 3% 6% 2%

LMS/SIS What’s Going On Across the U.S.? • 67% of K-12 districts have data dashboards in place and

18% are in the process of implementing them • Roughly 50% of K-12 IT professionals expect their data to

grow by 10% to 40% in the next 12 months

• 93% of districts have one or more online classes approved for credit

Data Pain Points

What is Your Biggest Data-Related Challenge?

K-12 Higher ED

Lack of Analytics 31% 17%

Lack of Storage Capacity 31% 13%

Capture and Sort 10% 3%

Backup and Recovery 5% 17%

What’s Going on With Storage?

• Over 50% of education IT professionals say they need to make significant investments in server and storage environments

• 46% of K-12 districts leverage shared servers and 37% leverage shared data centers

• 43% of K-12 IT professionals report cloud computing as a major area of modernization

Looking for Security in 2013

IT Security Needs Modernization • Nearly 40% of K-12 IT professionals indicate that IT

security is a required area of modernization

Network Security a Key Focus Area in 2013 • Over 50% of K-12 professionals indicate network

security as an area of significant investment over the next 12 months

Looking for Security in 2013

What IT Security Measures are you currently considering or implementing?

K-12 Higher

Education

Network Security 60% 40%

Single Sign On 43% 33%

Back-Up and Disaster Recovery 31% 30%

Identity Management 40% 33%

Endpoint and Mobile Device Security 26% 33%

Content Filtering 39% 20%

Data Loss Prevention 12% 20%

A Cloudy 2013

What are your institution’s plans for cloud adoption? • 25% are already moving forward with cloud adoption

• 23% are in the early stages of adoption

• 35% are currently assessing and evaluating, typical concerns are

security related due to privacy laws

• 17% still have no plans in this area

2013 Funding Outlook

What’s New? • Department of Education requesting $69.8 billion budget FY 2013, an

increase of $1.7 billion, or 2.5% from 2012 • Additional $850 million invested in Federal Race to the Top for 2013

What’s Changed? • E-Rate: This stable networking fund no longer requires a technology

plan for Priority One funding requests

What We Expect? • State budgets are rebounding, California reported an $851 million

surplus for 2013, the first in over 10 years

2013 Technology Spend

K-12 Education

Technology Spend (2013)

$9.7 B (+2%)

Textbook Spend (2012)

$7 B

K-12 Education IT Spend

$9.7 Billion

Sequester Impact: This Market Has Weathered Worse

U.S. Department of Education:

• K-12 Budget FY 2012 was $77.4 billion

• This only represents roughly 10% of public education spending

• 5.1% cut across all education programs in Fall 2013

• Title 1 may be cut by $725 million

• $600 million cut in special education funding

• President Obama has provided a plan to avoid these cuts

Funding in Colorado • Governor Hickenlooper is calling for an additional $200

million for K-12 in the 2013-14 budget

• Denver Public Schools received a $3 million investing in innovation (i3) grant in 2013

• SB213: “School Finance Act” would provision an additional $1 billion in new funding from an income tax increase

• Colorado received a $5.2 million school improvement grant from the USDOE

Legislative Priorities in Colorado

• HB13-1023: This bill requires each school district to adopt an academic acceleration policy for students

• HB13-1007: This bill resurrects the Early Childhood and School Readiness Legislative Commission

• SB13-053: Allows for the transfer of student data relevant to the transition from high school to postsecondary system

• SB13-139: This bill makes changes in the provision of online classes by boards of cooperative education services

Based On the Data, We See

Significant Investments Will Be Made In:

• Network Infrastructure Upgrades • Districts/Institutions need to bolster their networks for digital content

and mobility

• Addition of Computing Devices • Districts/Institutions need additional devices to deliver digital content

and curriculum

• Digital Content & Curriculum Growth • Districts and institutions will invest in digital content and curriculum to

deliver in the classroom

• Online Learning/Applications • Personalized learning and anywhere anytime access to content is

expected from students and instructors

Thank You

Market Research

700 Education Executive Members

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Center Events

2013 Events

K-12 Events Chicago Public Schools Leadership Technology Summit (Regional event) July 16, 2013 | Chicago, IL New York City Education Technology Summit (Regional event) July 31, 2013 | New York, NY 8th annual Arizona CIO/CTO Forum (Statewide event) October 3, 2013 | Phoenix, AZ The Digital Education Leadership Conversation (DELC) for K-12 (National event) October 7-8, 2013 | Sonoma, CA

Higher Education Events Digital Content & Curriculum Awards October 15, 2013 | Anaheim, LA The Digital Education Leadership Conversation (DELC) for Higher Education (National event) October 8-9, 2013 | Sonoma, CA 9th annual Texas Community College Technology Forum (Statewide event) November 15, 2013 | Frisco, (Dallas) TX 12th annual CUNY IT Conference (Regional event) December 5-6, 2013 | New York, NY

2013 Events Series

Q1 – March Clark County, Nevada – March 20 Q2 (April – June) Houston, TX – April 9 Denver, CO – April 12 Miami, FL Q3 (July – Sept) Atlanta, GA Memphis, TN Wake County, NC Los Angeles, CA – September 11 San Diego, CA

For more information or to pre-register: www.centerdigitaled.com/roundtables / 800-940-6039

Q4 (Oct – Dec) Fairfax County, VA Dallas, TX Montgomery County, MD Chicago, IL Additional Cities in consideration: Seattle Portland San Francisco Bay Area Minneapolis Detroit Baltimore

Colorado Mobility What’s Going On in Colorado?

• St. Vrain Public Schools: Conducting an instructional technology restructuring process and speculating a move to a 1to1 device ratio.

• Academy School District 20: Tablets are used by both students and teachers in a variety of ways across all curriculums with instruction beginning in first grade.

• Douglas County School District: Rock Canyon High School students launched a mobile application known as CaringHands

State of Digital Content in CO

• Denver Public Schools: Grant Beacon Middle School named second Janus blended learning site with $2.1 million 3-year grant

• Boulder Valley School District: Recently launched ForeFront Math which will serve as the districts Instructional Management System

• St. Vrain Public Schools: The district has chosen to avoid software programs and pursue cloud based services, web pages and desktop apps.

• Academy School District 20: iPad tablets are used in social science, mathematics, language arts and history classes

Colorado Connectivity

• Denver Public Schools: 10 gigabyte fiber wide-area-network installed to all schools and admin facilities

• Colorado: $100.6 million infrastructure grant to build

4,600-mile network, providing high-speed broadband Internet access to schools, will complete in August, 2013

• Colorado: Received a total of $23 million in E-Rate funds in 2012

Colorado LMS/SIS What’s Going On in Colorado?

• Denver Public Schools: Developed the district’s new Enrollment Improvement Initiative which processed over 90,000 student enrollments for 2012-2013

• State Model Evaluation system will be piloted in 27 schools during the 2011-2013 school years

• Teacher Evaluation System: After SB 10-191 schools now require reporting on the effectiveness of educators, and tracking performance statistics

Opportunities in Colorado • Colorado Dept. of Education: Has issued an RFP to provide

wireless LAN solution for three schools

• Colorado Dept. of Education: Has issued an RFP to provide Online Web-Based Performance Management System

• Lamar County School District: Looking at 1:1 initiative in its 3 high schools, plan to lease 2,600 laptops at $500,000 per year

o Also planning to switch 1:1 schools to digital text only

Thank You