music education: management and innovation conference 2011

Empowering Teachers, Schools and Parents

Empowering Teachers & Customers

Empowering People

Why Empower People?

What does it mean?

How do we do it?

Why Empower People

Successful Business

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Think About the Time

Traditional System

Parents

Schools Teachers

Local Administration

Pupils

Remote Administration

Empowering System

Parents

Schools TeachersLocal

AdministrationPupils

Remote Administration

Web Portal

Mobile Apps Cloud Database

ParentsFunction Web Mobile

Applications PAccounts PPayments PReports PCommunications P PDiary P P

PupilsFunction Web Mobile

Communications P PDiary P P

Organisations e.g. SchoolsFunction Web Mobile

Communications PDiary PSLA’s PAccounts P

TeachersFunction Web Mobile

Schedule PDiary P PRegisters P PAttainment P PClaims P PBilling P

But But But

• Our teachers wont use the internet• Our parents wont fill in online forms• Some parents don’t have bank accounts• What about data protection• Etc, etc, etc

There is always a case for not adopting modern technology

Its Happening

• Private Businesses• Independent Colleges• Private Music Schools

• Reduce their Cost Base• Improve their Customer Service• Allow them to Expand

Adoption of this technology by customers and employees

Online Business

• In 2009 - 42.6% of UK consumers buy something online at least once a week

• The average online spend per shopper is £81 per month

• On line sales are now worth over £50 billion• Online sales increasing by over 20% year on year

The Power of Online Sales

"E-commerce is having a huge impact on the way we do business. It can lead to dramatic growth in trade, increase markets, improve

efficiency and effectiveness and can transform business processes."

— the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Who has a Computer

Computer Usage

• 50% of adults enjoy the convenience and ease of online banking

• Consumers are spending almost half of their waking hours watching TV, using their mobiles and other communications devices

• They are also using several types of media at the same time – with the average person cramming 8 hours 48 minutes of media into just over seven hours during the average day.

Statistics?

• Most of your customers are on the internet and use it regularly

• Most teachers are computer literate; nearly all have mobile phones, half of which are smart phones

Lets Take a Look Then

• Parent Applications• Teacher Portal• Pupils Mobile Application• Parents Mobile Application• Teachers Mobile Application

Parent Application

• What are applications for?

– Tuition at a venue could be a school or a centre. This is more of a request that needs to be managed in order to ascertain if a teacher, timeslot venue etc. is available.

– Place on a course. Where a course is defined in terms of venue, modules dates and maximum people and so this type of application can book you directly into the course.

What About The Money?

Payment Processing

Service

Application Form

Details of price, product, buyer are sent

Confirmation or Rejection is sent back

Payment Processing ServiceNumber of Services out there• Sage Pay

• World Pay

You need a Payment Gateway and an Online BankCost are about

10p per transaction plusCredit Card 2.5% of transactionDebit Card 40p

Teachers Portal

• What can a teacher do?

• What does a teacher do?

What do They Do• Teach• Know when and where and what they teach• Who they teach• Record what they did, did they do it, who

turned up• Record details of a session• Record progression• Claim

Teacher Portal

Function is to replace all the paper

If we get rid of the paper • Save time• Share the data

Take a Look at The Portal

Mobile APP’s

Mobile Developments

The World of APP’s

Smartphones• There has been a surge in smartphone ownership, 15

million people in UK have smartphones

• A third of adults access content or send emails on their mobile phones, among 15-24s this rises to nearly 70 per cent.

• Surfing the internet via mobile phones is the fastest growing mobile media activity with 1 million new users each year

Which is Best Smart Phone

35%

15%30%

5%

Beyond the Phone

So Will People Use Them

• Is it appropriate to ask teachers to use them and will they.

• Will parents want an app

• Will students want an app

That’s Look at Some App’s

• Student App• Teacher App• Parent App

Empowering People

Why Empower People?

What does it mean?

How do we do it?

Questions