Overview of Microsoft UK Academic Team

Overview ofMicrosoftAcademicResourcesLee Stott, Academic EvangelistDeveloper Platform Evangelism,Microsoft, @lee_stotthttp://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

AGENDA YOU Industry Opportunity

A CHANGING BUSINESS 1983 PC 1990 Client/Server 2000 Network/Internet 2011 NUI/Mobility

WE ALL LIVE IN THE CLOUD

MOBILITY AND CLOUD = OPPORTUNITY

Microsoft UK Academic TeamWe provide tools and resources for student technologists and educators to make the most of theirlearning, teaching and researchTools Curriculum Community Free curriculum Professional materials, from On-line and in- developer and Key Stage 1 to person designer tools to post graduate, communities of build real sites, covering hundreds students, teachers apps, games, cloud of Computer and researchers services and more Science topics

Faculty & Student Programs of Interest: IT Academy: Academic Faculty Certification Imagine Cup Search Connection Microsoft Partners in Research Curriculum DreamSpark Learning Connections Resources

IMAGINE CUP 2012

Faculty Connection: microsoft.com/uk/faculty Blogs and Information on Provides technical resources, Microsoft Technology training, and software tools Facilitates development and sharing curriculum resources • Source for MS specific news, • Material is for academic use. technology highlights and • Faculty & Student Resources events via Blogs • Membership/access is • & Social Media available for faculty & Students • Sharing of experiences and teaching, learning and reserch pedagogical Repository of Resources • 3K curriculum materials Tech Faculty Engagement • Software tools • > 140K registered users • Curriculum Resource kits • Newsletters • Training materials • Articles, events, info • Presentation videos • MS Research feeds • Peer networks

DreamSpark Software* for Schools, FE and HEFree for students, included with EES or academic pricing for institutionsSchools FE & HE HE STEM Windows 7 Visual Studio Professional, Visual Studio Premium Visual Studio Ultimate Expression, Windows Server, Visio, Project, OneNote BizTalk Server Windows Embedded, SQL Server SharePoint Server • HE STEM departments only • Free to all students for personal use • Students, Educators, labs • Free with EES or from £50/year per institution for • Free for Microsoft IT Academies or from Schools, FE, HE - classrooms and educators £250/year per department Also offers easy access to other free tools, including Kodu Game Lab, Small Basic, Windows Phone tools, Kinect SDK, XNA Game Studio and more * Academic/non-commercial use

IT Academy - Skills Job Opportunity The IT Industry is growing 98k new IT business and presents a significant will be created by opportunity for students to 2015** find employment after graduation UK requires 550,000 new entrants in to IT and Telecoms by 2015*** Yet industry struggles to find the right skills Global IT jobs will grow +20% of Application Development jobs require from 35.6 million in 2009 to SharePoint skills**** 41.4 million by 2013* 92% of IT Leaders indicate it is challenging to secure necessary IT skills***** Global IT Spend will grow Universities now have a focus on employability within 6 to $1.7 trillion in 2013* months of graduating in subject that was studied * Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, Global, 2009 ** Source: IDC, Microsoft’s Economic Impact, 2011 *** Source: eskills Technology Insights report, 2011 **** Source: www.itjobswatch.co.uk ***** Source: TEKSystems Report, October 2011

Faculty & Student Curricula Resources Operating Game Systems Cloud Computing Development System Phone Dynamics Engineering Development CRM/ERP

Faculty & Student Programs of Interest: a sample OpenSource Student to Microsoft Student Community Experience Business Blog & Facebook Phone App Start-Up Support Xbox Game Clubs & Societies Faculty Connection Mentoring Development Blog & Linkedin http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

427,000 products 300 (<7%) of FE “ready to be UK secondary schools,downloaded and used retrained” and HE institutions view commonlyby over 140,000 subscribe to DreamSpark expressed among thestudents; <2% of 16,734 UK curriculum 32,000 Microsoftsecondary and tertiary content downloads from Partner companies in Microsoft Faculty Connection the UK when recruitingUK students in 2011 in 2011 CS graduates 43,599 world-wide22,000 tech students“like” our Facebook page and downloads of Windows 46% of UK Phone Programming in 2011 Application Development330 CS Educators joined - curriculum written by Rob job ads specify Microsoftour LinkedIn group in 2011 Miles, University of Hull .NET skillsSources: www.itjobswatch.co.uk, Microsoft internal reporting systems for DreamSpark, Faculty Connection andWindows Phone Marketplace, www.facebook.com/microsoftukstudents and Microsoft Faculty Connection UK on LinkedIn

VISION FOR THE FUTURE

WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON ?

MICROSOFT’S COMMITMENT TO YOU Tools Experience Opportunity

WHAT YOU CAN DO Get tools and training www.DreamSpark.com Build apps, games, and skills Create.msdn.com Sign up for the Imagine Cup www.ImagineCup.com

NOW IT IS UP TO YOU…

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