Capital Motivating e-Learning

There is a growing body of evidence about the ways that learners can benefit when providers invest in e-learning hardware and software and make confident and innovative uses of technology. That benefit is maximised where the use of technology is part of an organisation-wide strategy. For this reason, NIACE requested that proposals for capital investment should be linked to providers' strategic plans for e-learning and should include an organisational self-assessment (in the first instance using the ACL eLPs tool and in 2009/10 the Becta Generator tool) outlining providers' current position with regard to their strategic use of technology.

The programme aimed to improve learning opportunities for adult learners by providing capital for investment in e-learning hardware and software. It offered the following:

• Capital funding from the LSC, co-ordinated by NIACE, to support the development of e-learning in organisations that were offering LSC-funded adult learning.
• A support programme offered by NIACE to help providers maximise the benefit to their learners of the capital investment grant.

The CaMel capital grants were targeted at adult learning providers that were in receipt of LSC funding for the delivery of adult learning, in particular local authority adult learning services, Workers' Educational Associations and Third Sector organisations. The funding excluded further education colleges and work based learning providers from applying.

The CaMel funding was distributed to eligible providers during 2008/09 (CaMel 1) and 2009/10 (CaMel 2).

Providers involved in the programme were also supported by content and online courses within an area on the NIACE Moodle learning platform.

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