Transcript 20070710_fronter.ppt

London Grid for Learning
10th July 2007
Agenda
Fronter and the London MLE for the future
Roger Larsen, Managing Director, Fronter
Experiences from pilot training (june-july)
Ingun Vagli, Training Manager, Fronter Academy
Implementation of the London MLE
Malcolm Edmunds, Education Manager, Fronter UK
The Fronter Company
Mission:
Provide easy to use tools for learning and collaboration on the web .
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Founded in Norway in 1998
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2,500+ schools in Europe with 2,5 million users
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Approx. 75 colleagues in 8 countries
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Three times winner of the European seal of Excellence for ICT in gold
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NCSL talk2learn since 2003
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Becta approved Learning Platform Services Supplier
Implementation process
1. Order request by school / LA
2. Order confirmation by LGfL
3. Service User Agreement signed
4. SMT session & LA involvement (change management)
5. MIS integration & setup
6. Training of two school users
7. Follow up workshop
http://londonmle.net
Two yearly releases
December:
Fronter X1
…where X is the year,
and 1 and 2 is the release
that year.
June:
Fronter X2
Fronter 72 (June 07)
• Web Parts for Microsoft Sharepoint Portal
• RSS feed
• Internal ”Intellisearch”
• SMS messaging
• Attendance registration
Web Parts for Microsoft Sharepoint Portal
RSS feed out from Fronter
Fronter 73 (September 07)
• Fronter Integration System
• External content search (SRW)
• Child interface
• Dynamic page designer
• 8 e-learning modules for self training
Comprehensive MIS integration
Direct using IMS entreprise and eportfolio
Indirect using Schools Interoperability Framework
External content search...
...from within the learning platform
Live demo
Child interface
Fronter 81 (December 07)
• Parental portal
• Peer review
• Shibboleth
• Pan London content archive
• Portfolio school to school transfer
Other on-going developments
• Dynamic interfaces (drag’n’drop, etc)
• API and re-factoring
• Customer portal
Future…?
Learning Platform History
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
generation
generation
generation
generation
generation
1997
2002
2005
???
WEB
LMS
MLE
PLE
CWE
Web pages &
home grown
systems
Learning
Management
Systems
Managed
Learning
Environment
Personal
Learning
Environment
Collaborative
Working
Environment
1994
"homemade"
systems
Standard
packages
Integrated
solutions
Lifelong
eportfolio
Web desktop &
rich applications
Building Schools for the Future
with a £50 pure web-pc?
Only a web browser running Fronter and
advanced web applications
Is this computing for the Future?
Experience from pilot training
Ingun Vaglid
The pilot
• One week – 29 schools – 7 trainers
• 5 - 9 on each course, admin and teacher
• 1 day admin
• 1 day teacher training
Courses and help
• ”Train the trainer course”
– to become Fronter trainer (4 days + 1)
• ”LA courses” – to handle to top admininistrator role and to
be familiar with the functionalities for teachers and student
s (2 days)
• ”School training” – teacher and admin training (2 days)
• Additional courses
• E-learning courses (9 x 20 min courses)
• Documentation
• Support – 9am to 17pm, and email
Monthly courses
• ”Train the trainer course”
– first week in every month
– refreshment day once per month
• ”LA courses”
– every second week
• ”School training”
– every week
• Additional courses
– on request
• Training plan: fronter.com/lgfl
Implementation of the
London MLE
Malcolm Edmunds
London MLE SMT Workshops
• 20 pilot schools visited so far
• Visits were judged either good or very useful
• Most developed a clear implementation plan
• Some schools requested that a product demonstration be
included in the future as some staff had not seen
the London MLE
• All the schools liked the 1 to 1 approach of the
meetings
• All schools appreciated the presence of a MLE
Consultant
• All schools agreed to provide case study materials
Thank you for listening!