A presentation at third School on the Cloud summit conference, held in Brussels on 18 November 2016, examining some of the outcomes and challenges associated with the use of Cloud Computing in education, derived from project activities and meetings of experts. The presentation concludes with the Brussels School on the Cloud Declaration, with recommendations for senior European policy makers, calling on them to prioritise Cloud Computing in Education and Education for Cloud Computing.

1. Challenges for Education on the Cloud
Creating a Cloud Computing
Strategy for European Education
Karl Donert, Director: Innovative Learning Network Ltd.
Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu
kdonert@yahoo.com

2. Do we need a Cloud Computing
Strategy in European Education?
Does the Cloud (in education)
really matter?

3. Society might never be the
same

4. Cloud Computing

5. Norman, D. A. (1998). The invisible computer: Why Good
Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and
Information Appliances Are the Solution. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press.

9. Disruptive Innovation

10. Disruption: threats and
consequences
Threats
• Chaos – instability -
change routine
• Initial investment
• Resistance – fear
• Loss of control
• Ownership - security
• Quality
Consequences
• New learning processes
• Change administration
• Different decision
making
• Integrated ecosystems
• Exchange of knowledge
• Better assessment

11. Disruption: opportunities
• Full control – monitoring
learning process / outcomes
• Adjust expenditure
• Improve organisation
• Systemic change –
different roles
• Move forward – better
assessment
• Empowering
• Motivating – exciting –
attractive
• Flexible organisations
• Competitive
• Optimising – greater
efficiency

12. School on the
Cloud Network
http://www.schoolonthecloud.net/
@schoolon_cloud
https://www.facebook.com/SchoolOntheCloud
Linkedin group schooloncloud-7426807

13. Digital Agenda
(https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/)
Europe’s Digital Future

14. DG CONNECT: European
Cloud Computing Strategy

15. ETSI: Cloud Standards Coordination
The Cloud Select Industry Group on Service Level Agreements
ENISA: European Cloud Computing Strategy - Security
Development of model 'safe and fair' contract terms and conditions
The Cloud Select Industry Group on Certification Schemes
The Cloud Select Industry Group on Code of Conduct
Establishing a European Cloud Partnership
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/cloud-computing-strategy-working-groups
DG CONNECT: European
Cloud Computing Strategy

16. DG CONNECT: European
Cloud Computing Strategy
• ”Unleashing the Potential of Cloud
Computing in Europe”
• outlines actions to deliver a net gain of 2.5
million new European jobs, and an annual
boost of €160 billion to the European Union
GDP (around 1%), by 2020 – SME focus
• designed to speed up and increase the use of
Cloud Computing across all economic sectors

18. European Cloud Partnership
• Established in 2012
• Interested in certification, standards,
interoperability, open science cloud, the
digitalisation of industry
• Led to policy recommendations
• Cloud-for-Europe (C4E) initiative for public
administration
• HNScicloud focusing on the Cloud for public
research and innovation
European Cloud Partnership, https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-
market/en/european-cloud-partnership

19. • Agenda for New Skills and Jobs - Europe 2020
• Digital Agenda Action 68 – mainstream elearning
• Communication on Rethinking Education, skills for
better socio-economic outcomes, scale-up ICT
• Communication on Opening Up Education: setting
a European agenda for new ways of learning
• Learning and skills for youth, DG CONNECT
• Education, Audiovisual and Culture, eTwinning,
Open Education DG EAC
ICT in Education Policy

20. http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1223&langId=en

21. • bb
Bratislava eSkills Declaration 2016 http://tinyurl.com/zlck4a6
• Foster digital skills training programmes
• Harness industry-led education
• Accelerate labour mobility for digital jobs
• National Digital Skills and Jobs Coalitions

22. • bb
Bratislava eSkills Declaration, 2016 http://tinyurl.com/zlck4a6
• Raise awareness of key enabling technologies in the
digital single market and digital career opportunities
• Maturing the ICT profession
• EU funds dedicated to upskilling initiatives and
training platforms
• Encourage better gender balance

23. Capacity for change: sustainable
implementation and progressive
scaling up (of ICT-enabled innovative
learning environments) EC Joint Research
Centre (2012)

24. Creative classrooms
JRC (2012) "Challenges of implementing Creative Classrooms practices”,
http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/documents/_6_Etwinning_WS1_March2012.pdf, eTwinning
conference, Tampere Finland
eTwinning

25. Up-Scaling Creative
Classrooms in
Europe (2011-2013)
JRC (2013), http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/SCALECCR.html

26. Euractiv, http://tinyurl.com/zhllrtm
756,000 jobs can’t
be filled
Europe is behind

27. • fast Internet access = digitally literate workforce
• make fastest connections in schools, and other
major places where people gather
• provide free wi-fi in cities around the EU
• BUT with a desperate plea for better
technology education
Euractiv, http://tinyurl.com/zhllrtm

28. DG Education & Culture

31. Digital Strategy for Schools 2015-2020: Enhancing Teaching, Learning and Assessment,
https://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Policy-Reports/Digital-Strategy-for-Schools-2015-2020.pdf
Cloud not an EU or
national education
priority

32. • Cloud Computing is used as THE delivery
method for IT services in education
• wide range of customised solutions and
individual / collective actions
• Piecemeal, nothing coordinated
• some teachers and learners are enjoying
education benefits
Education on the Cloud
2015: State of the Art

34. European Success
• universities are thriving in strong
partnerships with regional institutions.
• education is ‘in’ … to help solve global
problems
• automation and data-intensive science
• from open access to radical open access
• cities are laboratories of democracy

35. Three Guiding Principles
… on thinking about what Europe’s knowledge
institutions must do to prosper:
Principle 1: Openness
An open knowledge system in Europe
Principle 2: Experimentation
Flexibility and experimentation in innovation
Principle 3: Cooperation
European-level cooperation

36. Our Vision
Leaders, managers, teachers, learners,
parents integrated as one - in a
dynamic, Cloud-based environment, for
lifelong learning
What sort of education do
we want from the Cloud?
http://tinyurl.com/socfuture

37. Change Management

39. A Cloud Strategy
for European
Education

40. A Cloud Strategy
for European
Education

41. Indicators of Cloud
Readiness for education

42. Establish
Capability
…. a framework
describing what is
needed for people to
thrive in a Cloud-based
education environment
Jisc, Digital Capability
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability

43. e-Leadership in SMEs
• EU initiative: e-leadership
scoreboard and index
• monitor and benchmark
• indicators on business, policy
infrastructure, related
outcomes
• need for metrics and practices
to understand e-leadership
• identify role models
• How policies affect practice

44. e-Leadership

45. Business 2016
Where is Cloud Computing in EU 2016?
Cloud Computing: enabling a
Digital Europe
Public Administration 2016
SMEs 2016
Health 2016Transport, Energy 2016
Industry 2016
Research 2016
Science 2016
Cloud Computing 2016
Environment 2016

46. University Education 2016
School Education 2016
Business 2016
Where is Cloud Computing in EU 2016?
Cloud Computing: enabling a
Digital Europe
Public Administration 2016
SMEs 2016
Health 2016
Vocational Education 2016
Transport, Energy 2016
Industry 2016
Research 2016
Science 2016
Cloud Computing 2016
Environment 2016

47. Cloud Survey Results
Education policy makers MUST:
• Encourage the development of a 'culture of
innovation' at system level, removing the fear of
change and supporting decision-makers, teachers,
and other stakeholders when taking sensible risks
and trying new things
• Make sure that technological Cloud innovation in
formal education settings is part of a wider
transformation agenda, which
includes pedagogical and organisational
innovation

48. Cloud Survey Results
Head teachers MUST:
• Motivate, support teachers to make their
innovative Cloud-based practices more visible to
others
• Support teachers making it easier for them to
participate in professional networks on using the
Cloud
• Ensure that all learners have equal and ubiquitous
access, in and out of school

49. Cloud Computing in Education
School on the Cloud Brussels Declaration
Call on the European Commission to prioritise Cloud Computing in Education, so that
Access to Cloud Computing in education is considered a
basic necessity for all.
Cloud Computing provides ‘connected education
ecosystem’ – a 24/7/365 learning community which
involves all stakeholders.
Developments start from a clear pedagogical concept –
based on 21st century skills and Cloud literacy

50. Cloud Computing in Education
School on the Cloud Brussels Declaration
Call on the European Commission to prioritise Cloud Computing in Education, so that
The Cloud can be used to create your own personal
learning network.
Educators are prepared for different roles based on
the paradigm shift
Initiatives pay attention to quality – not abundance.

51. Cloud Computing in Education
School on the Cloud Brussels Declaration
Call on the European Commission to prioritise Cloud Computing in Education, so that
• Clear European policies are developed to support
Cloud-based innovation in education
• European funding is made available for Cloud
Computing education initiatives
• An evidence-based monitoring system is
established to benchmark achievements across
Europe.

52. Summit Conclusions
• Paradigm shift (fundamental change in methods of
delivering education) (Koutsopoulos & Kotsanis, 2014)
• Vision = Cloud-based learner-centred ecosystem
• Exploit powerful services (Gonzalez-Martinez et al., 2015)
• Create quality learning experiences (Silva & Donert,
2015)
• Demonstrate leadership (at EU level), policies
and programmes for School on the Cloud
• Need a Cloud Computing in Education strategy

53. Why is Education important?
Cartoons from: http://cloudtweaks.com/category/cloud-computing/cartoon/
Presentation @ http://tinyurl.com/soc-declaration

54. Education could be so
different today..
Presentation @ http://tinyurl.com/soc-declaration
Cartoons from: http://cloudtweaks.com/category/cloud-computing/cartoon/

55. Karl Donert, Consultant
Innovative Learning Network
kdonert@yahoo.com
@karldonert