School ICT eLearning Index
Overview
The School ICT eLearning Index supports schools with planning, evaluating and reporting of ICT eLearning activities in their strategic planning, especially the School ICT eLearning Plan.
The index uses three levels to measure the maturity that schools have developed across the four ICT eLearning Drivers to ensure that ICT and eLearning is integral to learning in every school.
Working Digitally is a reflection of how schools use digital technology as a way of moving from traditional to transformational ways of working. In planning for this driver, you will need to consider community, student and staff satisfaction with their access to and purposeful use of digital technologies.
Developing Professionals articulates expectations regarding teacher and leader capabilities necessary to deliver quality teaching and learning in a contemporary learning environment. This will be measured, in part, through the proportion of teachers in your school who have progressed through the Smart Classrooms Professional Development Framework and leaders that have participated in approved digital pedagogy programs.
Enabling Learners focuses on establishing effective learning environments necessary to address the needs of learners in a complex changing world. This driver is about how teachers use the Student ICT Expectations and online learning environments to ensure students are satisfied with the way they use ICT for learning at school.
Harnessing the Enterprise Platform focuses on the processes, systems and practices necessary to develop and maintain effective learning and business productivity. This driver encourages you to manage and enhance investment in infrastructure, devices and software and leverage these to personalise learning and extend it beyond the classroom.
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Working Digitally |
Developing Professionals |
Enabling Learners |
Harnessing the Enterprise Platform |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A |
ICT is at the core of the school’s professional and business practices of planning, teaching, assessing and reporting. |
Teachers’ use of ICT is at the core of their teaching and learning practice. |
The school provides a digital learning environment that aligns with departmental initiatives and strategic directions. |
Schools utilise and maintain the standard Enterprise Platform infrastructure required to provide a contemporary eLearning environment. |
AA |
The use of digital technologies has evolved to enhance business and learning productivity. |
Teachers extend the use of ICT to enhance their teaching and learning practice. |
The school enhances learning by expanding the breadth and depth of physical and virtual learning spaces. |
Schools enhance the capacity and capability of the Enterprise Platform in response to student, teacher and administration demands for increased utilisation and access. |
AAA |
All aspects of school planning, improvement and decision making are underpinned by digital technologies. |
School staff have a commitment to ongoing learning and leadership in the expanding use of digital technologies in all aspects of schooling. |
The school transforms learning through a digital learning environment that consistently evolves to cater for the changing needs of students and the school community. |
The school is a catalyst in transforming the Enterprise Platform to enable educational services driven by demand, innovation, research and community expectation. |
Attainment of an index level A, AA, AAA, requires schools to reach the specified benchmark for all of the measures at that level.
How the levels are calculated
Responses to the annual School ICT eLearning Census and other school surveys are used to determine each school's progress through the levels of the index.
What is measured between levels is similar. Frequently, only the percentages are different. This raises the bar so schools continually plan and innovate to make ICT integral to learning as time transpires and new technologies become increasingly pervasive.
Smart Classrooms approved digital pedagogy programs for leaders that apply at the AAA level of the Developing Professionals driver are:
- Smart Classrooms eLearning Leaders Framework online course
- eLearning Principal Program
- 1:1 Leading the Way Principal's Practicum
- Library 21 Program
Main objective
To provide schools with a future-orientated framework that helps them measure, report on and plan their progress towards whole-school eLearning transformation.
Individual schools can use their annual School ICT eLearning Index report to help develop their School ICT eLearning Plan.
Key Dates
| February 2012 | New School ICT eLearning Index reports distributed to schools |
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