Microsoft In Education - Steve Beswick

Microsoft in Education
Steve Beswick
Director - Education UK

Objectives
Education Strategy and Worldwide Context
Market Trends
Our Future Direction
Questions and Answers

Our Vision for Education
Empowerpeople to realise their social and economic potential by
enabling access to quality education experiences for all through technology
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The Opportunity for Technology
Nurturing Powerful Communities Of Learning
Extending The Reach Of High-Quality Education To All
Enabling Relevant, Personalisedand Engaged Learning
Supporting Agile, Efficient And Connected Education systems
Giving Teachers Greater Insight and More Time

Microsoft Focus on Education
Government Leader
Teacher
Parent
Leadership
Student
Partner

Microsoft's Engagement Education
Education Mission: Quality Education Experiences for Everyone
Products & Solutions
Programs
Research
Education software
Partners in Learning
Basic and Applied Research
Platforms and tools
ITA Academies
International Standards
Technology Blueprints
MSDN Academic Alliance
Windows Live@edu
Imagine Cup
External Research & Programs
Microsoft Learning
MS Certifications

Market Trends............

The Two Tensions
Anarchy
Rules
Intuition
Process
Imagination
Step Change
Innovation
Under Control
Explorers
Navigators
Individual
Institution

Are We Ready to Shift?
21st Century Learning
Traditional Learning
Student Centered
Instructor Centered
Multimedia
Single Media
Collaborative Work
Isolated Work
Information Exchange
Information Delivery
Critical Thinking; Informed Decision Making
Factual, Knowledge-Based Learning
Pull
Push
Source: ISTE National Education Technology Standards for Teachers (USA)

Evolution of school ICT systems

Students
Teachers
Other Institutions
Community
People
School
Connected People By the Learning Gateway
Parents
Citizens
Partner Solutions

MIS
Virtual Learning
Other IT Systems
Business Intelligence
Connected Systems via the Learning Gateway
Partner Solutions

Where does SharePoint fit?
Desktop Productivity
Office Applications
Ad-Hoc
Unstructured
People
Information
Process
Education
Apps
Partner Solutions
Structured

Futures..........

Education Product Group
Team of 240 product managers, testers and developers
Extending ‘horizontal’ technologies:
Educational standards e.g. SCORM, IMS, SIF
‘Plumbing’ and underlying interoperability services
Solution accelerators
Documentation, support, SDKs, communities ....
Alignment with corporate initiatives e.g.
Software plus Services, online services, hosting ......
Web 2.0 and related technologies
Cross platform support
Innovation – exploiting R&D investment

Microsoft Semblio
Assembly tool for educators and students
Support for multiple content types ie PDF, Video etc.
QTi Assessment tools that work with VLEs
IMS Common Cartridge

Live@EDU
Free email for Students and University Faculties
550,000 users
Now available for Schools
Hosted Service from Dublin
Based on Exchange 2010 with OWA
Branded to the University/School – no Advertising

Software plus Services
School / Local Authority BasedHosted
Storage
(SkyDrive)
Intranet/Extranet
Sync
(Live Mesh)
Email
Security
Collaboration
(Office Live)
MIS
VLE
Pupil Tracking

Datacenter Investment
We’re running scale services now
2B Live Search queries/month
10B MSN page views/month
30B Live ID authentications/month
240B Messenger messages/month
We’re building to run your services
$500 million per data center
10,000 servers/month
Dublin = 51,000 Sq Metres
Olympia = 19,000 Sq Metres

Software-Plus-Services – Deployment Options
Combine the power of ‘on-premise’ software with the ease of cloud-based services across many different devices to offer choice.

Deployment Choices
Customer Hosted
Business Productivity online Services
Partner Hosted
On Premise Services - e.g. Great Barr School and LA Services
Partner Hosted - e.g. Churchend and BSF Learning Platforms
Live@Edu
Microsoft Online - email, portals and collaboration services
Microsoft Hosted e.g. London Grid for Learning
Full management of server HW
Most IT management responsibility
Access to all Exchange Server fine-grained policy and configuration
All SharePoint features
Highly customisable
Reduced or no server HW management required
SLA per partner agreement
Outsourced IT management
Access to most Exchange Server fine-grained policy and configuration
Many SharePoint features
Customisedsolutions
MANAGEMENT
No server HW management required
99.9% SLA
Advanced manageability
Access to most Exchange Server fine-grained policy and configuration, administered through support
Many SharePoint features
Value added solutions/ services
No server management required
Uptime targets & reporting
Simplest to manage
Access to Exchange Server fine-grained policy and features key for Education
On-line storage (Skydrive)
CONFIGURATION AND FLEXIBILITY

How Can these Services Benefit Education?
On-Premise
Investment protection
Maintain security and privacy
Delivery of core services and local applications
Solid platform for new cloud-based services
Web Hosted
Enables choice and blend with student lifestyle
New innovative and engaging applications
Low risk, cheaper, faster adoption
‘On-demand’ services at Scale
Rich experience across multiple devices and browsers
Cost savings e.g. Cloud storage of 25Gb per user

Summary
Boundaries of the School will expand to home and other community organisations
ICT is not the answer to the educational issues in the UK but it has a part to play
Microsoft investing in Education – Products, Programmes and Research

Education Resources and Websites
Schools blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukschools/b
Further Education blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukfe/default.aspx
Higher Education blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukhe/default.aspx
Microsoft UK Education Homepage: www.microsoft.com/uk/education/default.mspx
Innovative Schools: www.microsoft.com/innovativeschools
Case Studies: www.microsoft.com/uk/casestudies/
Learning Gateway: www.microsoft.com/uk/education/solutions/gateway/default.mspx
Building Schools for the Future: www.microsoft.com/uk/education/building.mspx
Home Access: www.microsoft.com/uk/education/homeaccessprogramme/default.mspx
Citizenship (via UK Edu homepage above): DLC, IT Academy, PiL, ITN
Free Stuff : www.microsoft.com/uk/education/free/freestuff.mspx

Solutions Resources
Learning Gateway: www.microsoft.com/uk/education/solutions/gateway/default.mspx
and: http://www.codeplex.com/LG
SharePoint Learning Kit: www.codeplex.com/slk
Windows Live@edu: www.microsoft.com/uk/education/solutions/microsoftliveforedu.mspx
Microsoft Semblio - http://www.microsoft.com/learningspace/semblio/
Business Intelligence: www.microsoft.com/bi
Unified Communications: www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx
Virtualisation: www.microsoft.com/virtualization/default.mspx
Security: www.microsoft.com/forefront/en/us/default.aspx
Windows Live – http://get.live.com

Try these resources today
Surface
http://www.microsoft.com/surface
Photosynth
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
Silverlight
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
Films for Learning
http://www.filmsforlearning.org
Worldwide Telescope
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
Live Mesh
http://www.mesh.com
Auto Collage
http://research.microsoft.com/autocollage
Office Live Workspace
http://workspace.office.live.com

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