Home Access to eLearning

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Home Access to eLearning

• Alison Gaunt
• Director of ICT and eLearning
• The Malling Holmesdale Federation

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Our ethos Two World class schools at the heart
of their communities
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• Our ethos
• eLearning can give you the freedom and
  flexibility to learn when and where you want and
  at your own pace.
• We want to connect learning at school with
  learning at home.
• We want all students to leave the MHF with the
  capability to transfer and develop their
  e-learning to support their transition into adult
  life.

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• Features of our laptop scheme
• At the Malling School, every year 7 has a
  personal laptop.
• All school software is available on the networked
  school profile.
• Most students contribute 22 a month.
• For those who dont contribute, we run a trolley
  for daily collectors.

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Improved outcomes
Attendance, behaviour, Motivation ?
E-maturity school improvement
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• Project History
• Holmesdale gained Technology College status in
  2001.
• Laptops introduced at Holmesdale in 2005, The
  Malling School in 2007 (after federation).
• Rollout each year with new year 7 cohort.
• Year 7-10 now have laptops at Holmesdale and year
  7 at The Malling School.
• Virtual Learning Environment supports home-school
  learning.

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• Teaching and Learning needs to drive the scheme
• Develop an e-learning strategy first with an
  expectation that ICT will be integrated across
  all subject areas. Start small.
• Provide the necessary training and support for
  all staff.
• Ensure your Virtual Learning Environment is up
  and running and that everyone is using it.
• Visit other schools to pick their brains.

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• 2. Implement strategies to make sure students
  collect/bring their laptop to school
• Daily monitoring.
• Consequences built into your behaviour management
  system if they dont comply. Consistency is key.
  
• If students dont have a good reason to bring
  their laptop to school, they wont bother!

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• 3. Finance
• Investigate out-sourcing of payment collection
  and chasing of default payments

• Communication still needs to take place between
  the school and finance company.
• Employ a dedicated e-learning administrator to
  oversee the operations . There needs to be a
  single point of contact.

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• 4. Repairs
• Draw up a parental e-learning contract when
  laptops are first handed out making sure all
  costs are transparent.
• Ensure excess payments are received before
  repairs are carried out.
• Negotiate on-site support with your laptop
  supplier.
• Ensure service level agreements with supplier are
  in place for repair times.
• Have a bank of temporary laptops available.

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5. Choose robust, portable laptops
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In summary

• Has been of massive benefit to learners and
  teachers.
• Many ways of achieving home access as long as
  some basic rules are followed.
• Make sure that your strategy is driven by
  learning not hardware and that your goals support
  the over-arching school ethos.

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Next steps

• Go to our website www.mhfederation.co.uk
• Download presentation.
• Contact me with specific queries/to arrange a
  visit alison.gaunt_at_holmesdale.kent.sch.uk