Authorised Conent Provider, Curriculum Online

Fun-Ed Media Release, April 2004

Lizard Edutainment has become an authorised Content Provider for Curriculum Online

What is Curriculum Online?
Launched by the DfES in January 2003, Curriculum Online (www.curriculumonline.gov.uk) is a highly searchable, online catalogue of thousands of multimedia resources, all linked to the curriculum of subjects taught in schools in England.

Resources cover Foundation/Early Years to Key Stage 4, and SEN. It is the definitive list of all resources which can be bought with a school's eLC money (eLearning Credits). Many are free. eLCs are available to all Government-funded nursery, primary and secondary schools in England, up to and including Key Stage 4, as well as Foundation and SEN.

What are eLCs?
eLC money (eLearning Credits) is cash given to schools to spend specifically on multimedia resources to support teaching and learning.

Further information can be seen at http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/AboutELCs/WhatareeLCs.htm

How much money?
For the academic year 2003-04, for instance, schools in England received £100million to spend on multimedia resources. Every eligible school received £1000, plus almost another £10 per pupil. This money is allocated to individual schools by their LEA. It is available to all Government-funded nursery, primary and secondary schools in England, up to and including Key Stage 4, as well as Foundation and SEN.

Teaching professionals buy resources through their school's eLC budget holder, who may be a governor, the head, or the ICT co-ordinator. But of course, every decision-maker and teaching professional in every school can have a say in which resources their school buys with its eLCs.

To check the Curriculum Online website go to www.curriculumonline.gov.uk
For information direct from the DfES log on to www.dfes.gov.uk/curriculumonline

For further information contact:-

Jean du Buisson Lizard Edutainment Email: sales@fun-ed.com