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...
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!