• Realising the benefits of the investment made in ICT through ET Strategy / C2k
• Embedding elearning into curriculum, assessment, practice and leadership
• Evaluating the effectiveness of integration, and the educational benefits arising
• Setting standards and kite-marking the quality of elearning developments
• Coordinating regional strategic action within the school/teacher education sector, and
• Working towards a unified elearning strategy across sectors

Enhance practice for teachers and leaders
Uplift competence for all staff, support leaders with technology, improve productivity, reduce bureaucracy, share in online environments, extend online partnership with parents and community

Enhance professional support for schools
Build the capacity in the professional community to support continued professional development, post-NOF, through online communities of practice

Innovate infrastructure, connectivity and estate
Flexible buildings, wireless access, personal portability, online environments broadband growth

Digital and online multimedia should be integrated into and be seen to be empowering the current education priorities in Northern Ireland

• School improvement
• Teacher competence (ITE-EPD-CPD):
• Leadership development
• Together Towards Improvement
• Implementing the revised curriculum
• Post-primary review
• Raising standards in literacy and numeracy
• Managing behaviour and tackling low attainment
• Inclusion agendas
• Vocational education and lifelong learning
• Managing bureaucracy
• Managing information

In emPowering Schools, we believe that all young people should be able to empower their learning, with, through, and about, the use of digital and online technologies

emPowering schools are characterised by:

• independent, lifelong learning skills
• e-confident teachers
• team working for learners (both pupils and teachers)
• assessing for learning and personalising support
• a broad, flexible, individualised curriculum
• online collaboration
• networking with their parents and community
• being self-improving
• public-private partnerships