Becta

Mentions in the bid: 9

C.1.2

Sero (the Coordinator) believes that this is confirmed by a study just completed for Becta by Sero and a UK university. The study looked briefly at developments across the world (taken from 17 countries) classified by 10 "Claims" - themes such as m-learning, home-school links via ICT, learning space redesign and 21st century skills. In the view of the Sero team, confirmed by international contacts they made at the Learning and Technology World Forum in London in January 2010 - now partners in this bid - this study demonstrated the value of a much more systematic thorough study which would be truly world-wide - VISCED.

Paul Bacsich

Paul Bacsich is Senior Consultant at Sero. He works on the CAPITAL project for Becta, including as lead author of the new report on "International issues" for ICT in education.

Ian Chowcat

Dr Ian Chowcat is Head of Learning Innovation at Sero. He is the project manager for the CAPITAL project for Becta (a consortium of Sero and the Learning Systems Research Institute, University of Nottingham) - see http://www.sero.co.uk/capital-documents.html

Helen Harrop

Helen Harrop is a Consultant at Sero. She worked on the CAPITAL International workpackage, led by Paul Bacsich, with a focus on mobile learning, home-school links via ICT, learning space redesign and 21st century skills. The full report on "International issues" has been delivered to Becta and a seminar given to their senior staff on 24 March 2010.

Barry Phillips

He is a co-author (with Ian Chowcat) of the report to Becta "Harnessing Technology: Preliminary identification of trends affecting the use of technology for learning", July 2008, http://www.sero.co.uk/assets/capital/ht_trends_july08.doc.

E.4

2. Sero the coordinator is a key supplier of R&D in e-learning to Becta, JISC, and Scottish agencies in the UK.

D.3.1

This report, lead author P2 Sero, describes the typology of virtual school/college services that analysts in the project will use for taxonomy and categorisation of Exemplars (including on the wiki). It will draw on sources including: 1. Re.ViCa categorisation of virtual campus initiatives in higher education 2. The 4-box model in Leadbeater and Wong "Learning from the Extremes" 3. Concepts from Becta of e-maturity in England schools and colleges 4. The MIT90s concept of transformation levels.

WP4 - work for P2

Coordinates input from the views of the UK Ministries and agencies (in particular Becta)

WP7

Dissemination will start at once so that a community of interest can be built up as soon as possible. There will be material to disseminate initially because several partners are now involved in relevant projects and consortia - such as Learnovation, Re.ViCa, UK home nation studies (for Becta and for Scotland and Wales) and various smaller-scale studies of ICT in colleges and Virtual Schools.

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