National Adult Literacy Agency. Saturday March 29 th 2014

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1 National Adult Literacy Agency Saturday March 29 th 2014

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3 In this world nothing can be certain, except death and taxes. and Change Constant change! Benjamin Franklin

4 Tom Friedman

5 In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. Today, average is over! Tom Friedman

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7 EU youth unemployment 22.8% 2012

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10 Join a gang

11 First Law of Creativity That which is merely competent, or even good, is only a point of departure; it is seldom, if ever, a point of arrival.

12 Talent and Imagination Commitment and Belief

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14 Show me a boy who never wanted to be a Rock Star and I ll show you a liar!

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18 Politics is about getting your priorities right

19 Education Infrastructure Health versus Energy Security Social Security Defence

20 Change takes far longer than you expect, but when it does occur, it happens faster than you ever believed possible. Larry Summers

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23 Parental engagement and self-sacrifice - 30% of disposable family income

24 Shanghai Classroom teachers 70% Teaching time 30% Lesson preparation and professional development including familiarity with technology

25 A Country that fails to value its Teachers, fails to value its future.

26 U.S. has seen a huge growth in user-generated Open Educational Resources 68% of U.S. teachers say sharing lesson plans is helping them become better teachers Recommendations of resources from other teachers are valued more highly than any other source Almost 60% of U.S teachers search online daily to source classroom content

27 Recent milestones 4.9 million resources downloaded a week 410 million resources downloaded 750,000 resources uploaded TES alone connects more than 70 million teachers and students globally 1.4 million unique visitors per week 4.4 million monthly unique visitors 10 million monthly visits 727 partners sharing resources on the sites 10 resources downloaded every second

28 Oct-08 Sep-08 Sep-09 Aug-09 Jul-09 Jun-09 May-09 Apr-09 Mar-09 Feb-09 Jan-09 Dec-08 Nov-08 Jan-10 Dec-09 Nov-09 Oct-09 Dec-10 Nov-10 Oct-10 Sep-10 Aug-10 Jul-10 Jun-10 May-10 Apr-10 Mar-10 Feb-10 Feb-11 Jan-11 Aug-11 Jul-11 Jun-11 May-11 Apr-11 Mar-11 Sep-11 Oct-11 Nov-11 Dec-11 Jan-12 Feb-12 Mar-12 Apr-12 May-12 Jun-12 Jul-12 Aug-12 Sep-12 Oct-12 Nov-12 Dec-12 Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jan-14 Dec-13 Nov-13 Oct-13 Sep-13 Aug-13 Jul-13 Downloads are growing at rate of 27% - year on year Cumulative downloads of TES resources (Millions) Jan-Dec m downloads Feb 3, per second Sep 23, per second May 2013, Connect 50m teachers and students Untested idea in the UK Reaches 197 Countries Source: TES internal database

29 Shared content goes mainstream 85% teacher generated 800, , , ,000 March 2014: 750,000+ resources 567, , , , , , ,432 47,972 93,743 4,486 12,392 21, Source: TES internal database

30 The single largest profession in the world USA 3.6m Mexico 1.2m Brazil 2.2m UK 500k 80m teachers worldwide Europe 4.4m Russia 1.4m India 7.6m China 12.4m Australia 257k More than 730,000 UK education professionals downloaded at least one resource in % of registrations in 2013 were from outside the UK An average of 10,700 non-uk registrants a week..from an average of 174 countries Top 5 non-uk countries in the TES network: 1.USA 2.Australia 3.India 4.Canada 5.Ireland The textbook industry is worth $7bn in the U.S, despite textbooks only being used in 34% of lessons

31 While I ve been speaking, between 12 and 15,000 teaching and learning resources will have been downloaded in 93 countries. 85% of which were created by teachers - for teachers

32 Teachers as Learners

33 Video Editing Software

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37 Education Meets Social Networking Exciting Fast Disruptive Social Never more so, than today! 37 Simon Buckingham Shum

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39 Institutionally accredited learning Predefined steps and paths Institutional Accreditation Fixed granularity, standard curriculum and price Simon Buckingham Shum 39

40 Gentler, more open slopes Informal Learners Institutional Accreditation Smaller milestones Exploiting www resources Accredited by mentors and the platform Fixed granularity, standard curriculum and price 40 Simon Buckingham Shum

41 Operating at scale The UK s largest university, teaching 36% of all part-time undergraduate students in the UK each year Around 250,000 students registered with us last year We offer 433 modules and 190 qualifications, and have 15 curriculum partnerships established in 23 countries The OU currently makes over 35,000 academic awards annually There are almost 7,000 associate lectures Over 50,000 unique users a day to our Moodle based Virtual Learning Environment Simon Buckingham Shum 41

42 We are global 4,538 16,093 Strategic Partnerships Several partnerships in countries with limited scale 3,272 9, ,721 7,960 Global Direct 10,000 7,000 students in Europe in Europe students outside outside Europe Europe Content Licensing Several longstanding agreements with international HE institutions Rest of the world 4, Simon Buckingham Shum

43 Our Students The average age of our new undergraduate students is just 30 Over 71% of our students work full or part-time during their studies 12% of our students are from ethnic minorities Around 10% of our students declare a disability 37% have 1 A level or lower at entry 75 of the FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff on OU courses Simon Buckingham Shum

44 Quality assured The OU was rated the top university for student satisfaction in last year s National Student Survey, and has been in the top three universities every year since the survey began in 2005 The 2009 Institutional Audit by the Quality Assurance Agency confirmed the academic standards of our awards, and of the learning opportunities available to students, identifying a number of significant areas of good practice Over 250 Open University validated higher education programmes delivered by 26 approved institutions worldwide Over 128,000 students have achieved an OU validated award to date Simon Buckingham Shum 44

45 Multi channel Simon Buckingham Shum 45

46 itunes U Key Facts: More than 64 million downloads 1.7 million unique users last year 70% of users download straight to a mobile device 93% of visitors are from outside the UK We now have 77 itunes U courses Simon Buckingham Shum 46

47 The Open University on itunes U Top Ten Course Subscriptions Snapshot Top Ten itunes U Course Subscribers The New Entrepreneurs Ecosystems Moons: an introduction Future energy Introduction to China Introducing philosophy: thinking and ethics The Sun: our local star DNA an introduction What is religion? Global English: a language of controversy? 226, , , , , ,600 94,391 88,517 86,650 83,119 Simon Buckingham Shum 47

48 Over 600,000 since February 12 th 2014

49 The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves and so does the answer!