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

Mission:

Provide easy to use tools for learning and collaboration on the web .

The Fronter Company

Founded in Norway in 1998

2,500+ schools in Europe with 2,5 million users

Approx. 75 colleagues in 8 countries

Three times winner of the European seal of Excellence for ICT in gold

NCSL talk2learn since 2003

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

June:

Fronter X2

…where X is the year,and 1 and 2 is the releasethat year.

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…?

2.generation

3.generation

1.generation

4.generation

5.generation

LMS

Learning Management

Systems

Standardpackages

1997

MLE

Managed Learning

Environment

Integratedsolutions

2002

"homemade"systems

WEB

Web pages &home grown

systems

1994

PLE

Personal Learning

Environment

Lifelongeportfolio

2005

CWE

CollaborativeWorking

Environment

Web desktop &rich applications

???

Learning Platform History

Building Schools for the Futurewith a £50 pure web-pc?

Only a web browser running Fronter andadvanced 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 students (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 theLondon 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!