This document discusses plans for a new managed learning environment called "Our school in the Cloud" for Scottish schools. It would utilize Microsoft SharePoint and provide online learning resources and tools for students and teachers. The project aims to inspire and engage students by explaining the purpose and benefits of the online platform. However, previous initiatives like GLOW faced challenges like poor leadership, decision-making and failure to keep up with trends in technology and social media. The new project hopes to learn from these lessons by placing user needs at the center and taking an agile approach with a small dedicated team.

1. Our school in the Cloud
A New Managed Learning Environment
for Scottish Schools
Jaye Richards-Hill

4. Adopting IT appears to add costs and doesn't
result in changes in culture/practice or in
improving outcomes for learners

5. In 2008, the Star Wars director and education advocate
George Lucas, told the US House of Representatives that
America should follow Scotland's lead and set up a similar
platform for online learning.

7. “It's one of the largest SharePoint projects anywhere in
the world - and certainly the largest one involving a
SharePoint learning management system, so it is a
great case study for mass student engagement”
Ray Fleming - Microsoft

8. To inspire and engage starts with the clarity of WHY…
Genuine user engagement starts with explaining WHY
(Simon Sinek)

11. Is GLOW a ‘Toxic Brand’ Or could we do a
‘Skoda Job’ on it?

13. the failure of Glow (in my opinion) has been down to poor
leadership (at Scottish Government level), poor decision-
making, blocking at a project management and board
level, risk aversion, and ultimately the greed of a handful of
people - who, quite frankly should be ashamed of themselves
and their hobby which seems to have become the burning of
taxpayers’ money.

15. The technology must be relevant; the medium, not the focus

16. Glow missed Web 2.0, missed social media and networking
and missed the mobile revolution

17. The Sound-Bite Generation…
Has social media re-energised learning?

18. The Gateway not the Garden

19. Requirements of Glow Plus

20. ICTEx has placed the user firmly at the centre

21. “Virtual learning environments or VLEs are all the rage in
schools at the minute. They allow teachers and pupils to
access class content, homework etc and some even have
social spaces where they can interact through threaded
discussions. Brilliant right? The only problem is the school
splashes out all this money and no one uses it. Not even
teachers. Because it's basically a more boring version of
Facebook. Why then, shouldn't schools use Facebook for
the same means? It's free, most pupils will go on it
regularly anyway and would be far more popular –
Facebook could be the world's biggest and best VLE”

22. Operating Conditions
Open Wi-Fi for All Fast broadband Light touch
national filtering
Bring your own
Device/Technology
Focus on Education/
Internet Safety

23. Structure
Core Services
Identify Management &
Storage Service
Layer 1 - Integrated Services (via
SSO, API, Oauth etc.)
Layer 2 – not integrated but supported
Layer 3 – everything else

24. a community for anytime anyplace learning.

25. A small agile team must under-promise and over-deliver

26. SRO (Fiona Robertson)
ICT Excellence Key
Reference group
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION BOARD
Stakeholder group
IMPLEMENTATION TEAM EDUCATION
(Robbie Parrish –technical SCOTLAND
lead)

27. Challenges Solutions
BANDWIDTH SWAN
TABLET
WIFI PROCURREMENT
FUNDING ACCESS
FRAMEWORK
CULTURE B.Y.O.T
TRAINING ‘FACEBOOK FACTOR’
PROJECT CAPACITY BUILDING
MANAGEMENT GOVERNMENT/ES

28. Jaye Richards-Hill
jaye@rubysfuture.co.uk
www.twitter.com/jayerhill
www.mimanifesto.wordpress.com
www.nomsindo.education.co.za
www.linkedin.com
Slide 2 – TED.com
Slide 11 – Olliebray.com
Slide 13 – Education Scotland
Slide 14 – www.forbes.com and speckled-axe.com
and causematters.com
Slides 22-25– Charlie Love.org
Slide 20 – www.brunel.ac.uk