A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Initiative 5:
Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships

The Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP) program is a competitive grant program intended to increase student access to high-quality technology-mediated learning opportunities that are not limited by the constraints of time and place. This is achieved by encouraging coordination and resource-sharing that would otherwise not happen, providing the needed variety of education options for students, and developing new means of ensuring accountability and quality of innovative education methods.

Funds are distributed by the Department on a competitive basis. A non-federal match of at least 50 percent is required, either in cash or in kind, for LAAP-funded projects. Most grants are for one, two, or three years of funding, and a few larger grants of exceptional scope may extend up to four or five years.

LAAP grants will be awarded to partnerships consisting of two or more entities such as institutions of higher education, community organizations, businesses and other types of public or private organizations. To apply, the lead applicant and fiscal agent for the grant must be a nonprofit entity acting on behalf of the partners. Partnerships between academia and industry are encouraged, as are partnerships involving school or university systems, and any other arrangement that can create new ways of addressing important needs, eliminating barriers, and ensuring access and quality.

Publications:

The LAAP information and application materials booklet, as well as technical assistance materials, a bibliography of program evaluation resources, and advice for writing proposals, is posted on the Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education/LAAP Web site at: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/FIPSE.

Fact sheets and questions and answers on this initiative are on the U.S. Department of Education Web site at http://www.ed.gov/inits/FY99/index.html.

Program Coordinator:

Brian Lekander
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
202- 502-7500
Fax: 202- 502-7877
e-mail: brian.lekander@ed.gov
Office Web site: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/FIPSE
e-mail: LAAP@ed.gov

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