Presenting the tools, technology, currculia, community and resources available to UK Academics and Students

1. Overview of
Microsoft
Academic
Resources
Lee Stott, Academic Evangelist
Developer Platform Evangelism,
Microsoft, @lee_stott
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

2. AGENDA
YOU
Industry
Opportunity

3. A CHANGING BUSINESS
1983
PC 1990
Client/Server
2000
Network/Internet 2011
NUI/Mobility

4. WE ALL LIVE IN THE CLOUD

5. MOBILITY AND CLOUD = OPPORTUNITY

6. Microsoft UK Academic Team
We provide tools and resources for student technologists and educators to make the most of their
learning, teaching and research
Tools Curriculum Community
Free curriculum
Professional
materials, from On-line and in-
developer and
Key Stage 1 to person
designer tools to
post graduate, communities of
build real sites,
covering hundreds students, teachers
apps, games, cloud
of Computer and researchers
services and more
Science topics

7. Faculty & Student Programs of Interest:
IT Academy: Academic Faculty
Certification Imagine Cup Search Connection
Microsoft
Partners in Research Curriculum
DreamSpark
Learning Connections Resources

8. IMAGINE CUP 2012

9. Faculty Connection: microsoft.com/uk/faculty
Blogs and Information on Provides technical resources,
Microsoft Technology training, and software tools
Facilitates development and
sharing curriculum resources • Source for MS specific news,
• Material is for academic use. technology highlights and
• Faculty & Student Resources events via Blogs
• Membership/access is • & Social Media
available for faculty & Students
• Sharing of experiences and
teaching, learning and reserch
pedagogical Repository of Resources
• 3K curriculum materials
Tech Faculty Engagement • Software tools
• > 140K registered users • Curriculum Resource kits
• Newsletters • Training materials
• Articles, events, info • Presentation videos
• MS Research feeds • Peer networks

10. DreamSpark Software* for Schools, FE and HE
Free for students, included with EES or academic pricing for institutions
Schools FE & HE HE STEM
Windows 7
Visual Studio Professional, Visual Studio Premium
Visual Studio Ultimate
Expression, Windows Server, Visio, Project, OneNote
BizTalk Server
Windows Embedded, SQL Server SharePoint Server
• HE STEM departments only
• Free to all students for personal use • Students, Educators, labs
• Free with EES or from £50/year per institution for • Free for Microsoft IT
Academies or from
Schools, FE, HE - classrooms and educators
£250/year per department
Also offers easy access to other free tools, including Kodu Game Lab, Small Basic,
Windows Phone tools, Kinect SDK, XNA Game Studio and more
* Academic/non-commercial use

11. IT Academy - Skills Job Opportunity
The IT Industry is growing 98k new IT business
and presents a significant will be created by
opportunity for students to 2015**
find employment after
graduation UK requires 550,000
new entrants in to IT
and Telecoms by
2015***
Yet industry struggles to find the right skills
Global IT jobs will grow
+20% of Application Development jobs require from 35.6 million in 2009 to
SharePoint skills**** 41.4 million by 2013*
92% of IT Leaders indicate it is challenging to secure
necessary IT skills***** Global IT Spend will grow
Universities now have a focus on employability within 6 to $1.7 trillion in 2013*
months of graduating in subject that was studied
* Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, Global, 2009
** Source: IDC, Microsoft’s Economic Impact, 2011
*** Source: eskills Technology Insights report, 2011
**** Source: www.itjobswatch.co.uk
***** Source: TEKSystems Report, October 2011

12. Faculty & Student Curricula Resources
Operating Game
Systems Cloud Computing Development
System Phone Dynamics
Engineering Development CRM/ERP

13. Faculty & Student Programs of Interest: a sample
OpenSource Student to Microsoft Student
Community Experience Business Blog & Facebook
Phone App
Start-Up Support Xbox Game Clubs & Societies Faculty Connection
Mentoring Development Blog & Linkedin
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty

14. 427,000 products 300 (<7%) of FE
“ready to be
UK secondary schools,
downloaded and used
retrained”
and HE institutions
view commonly
by over 140,000 subscribe to DreamSpark
expressed among the
students; <2% of 16,734 UK curriculum 32,000 Microsoft
secondary and tertiary content downloads from Partner companies in
Microsoft Faculty Connection the UK when recruiting
UK students in 2011 in 2011 CS graduates
43,599 world-wide
22,000 tech students
“like” our Facebook page and
downloads of Windows 46% of UK
Phone Programming in 2011 Application Development
330 CS Educators joined - curriculum written by Rob job ads specify Microsoft
our LinkedIn group in 2011 Miles, University of Hull .NET skills
Sources: www.itjobswatch.co.uk, Microsoft internal reporting systems for DreamSpark, Faculty Connection and
Windows Phone Marketplace, www.facebook.com/microsoftukstudents and Microsoft Faculty Connection UK on LinkedIn

15. VISION FOR THE FUTURE

16. WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON
?

17. MICROSOFT’S COMMITMENT TO YOU
Tools Experience Opportunity

18. WHAT YOU CAN DO
Get tools and training
www.DreamSpark.com
Build apps, games, and skills
Create.msdn.com
Sign up for the Imagine Cup
www.ImagineCup.com

19. NOW IT IS UP TO YOU…

20. Q&A
Lee Stott, Academic Evangelist
Developer Platform Evangelism,
Microsoft, @lee_stott
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/faculty