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= Due to withdrawal of funding for all State based e-Learning Support Services this website will not be updated or moderated after the 30 June 2014. =
 * Funding Changes **

Funding for all state support services cease to exist as of close of business today the 30 June. We are pleased to announce that funding has been provided for at least the next 6 months for the following services:
 * Ongoing Assistance**

- **Access to all content** (there will be no changes to accessing content such as toolboxes etc (NOTE - this may not be supported and therefore some links etc may not work in the future). Please find below a link to a recording from a session we ran in March showing how to access the resources. []

- **Access to a CENTRAL e-learning support service**. For any help or enquiries please contact EWorks at e-standards@flexiblelearning.net.au .

- **The Klevar group – will be uploading content at the following url which will be available from 1 July -** freevetresources.com.au (NOTE – this content will not be maintained or quality checked – all content will be ‘as is)’.

Further information about these services can be found below (this information was posted in the latest Flex e-news May-June Edition). //Following recent reforms to the VET governance landscape, the Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG), and a number of its former activities have been dissolved. //

//Over the past decade, FLAG and its network of dedicated staff in each state and territory helped to mature flexible learning in the Australian training system. This support and advocacy ensured technology became ubiquitous with learning, and in 2013 some 95 per cent of teachers and trainers were using one or more technologies in the delivery and assessment of training. //

// While FLAG will no longer operate in the VET landscape, the Commonwealth has indicated its commitment to supporting e-learning in the VET sector through the continuation of three former National VET E-learning Strategy activities: // //EWorks (Victoria) will be coordinating the three functions on behalf of the Commonwealth from 1 July 2014. Any enquiries should be directed to eWorks through e-standards@flexiblelearning.net.au . //
 * //The ////E-standards for Training //// will continue to research emerging standards areas and maintain the current framework of standards for e-learning in the national training system. The E-standards are a national set of technical standards recommended for underpinning all e-learning content and systems in the sector. The standards are revised annually and the updated standards are taken to the ////E-standards Expert Group  //// (EEG) for ratification. This is to ensure the growing number of recommended standards and specifications remain current and relevant to their audience //
 * //The Content Management service will maintain online access to the national collection of digital learning objects (including ////<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Toolboxes ////<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">), currently held within the ////<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">National VET Content  ////<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> repository //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">A central e-learning support service will provide the VET sector with advice on the application of the E-standards for Training, technical support for digital content and guidance on e-learning more broadly; this support service will also include continued access to resources within the ////<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flexible Learning website ////<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> and an online newsletter. //