The Housing e-Academy is an innovative solution created in joint partnership between Virtual College and Dutton Dodd Consultants. The Housing e-Academy is specifically structured to enhance the learning process for individuals and organisations that work within, or that provide support for, the social housing sector.

There is a significant education and training requirement for those who operate within a housing environment. The e-Academy provides an alternative route to the traditional face-to-face delivery methods by providing access to an excellent range of e-learning resources. Through the use of the Internet to provide access to online resources the e-Academy removes all geographical restrictions. The e-Academy utilises a virtual learning environment, e-learning modules and online assessment to create a blended learning solution with flexiblility, quality and consistent provision of training in a manner that engages learners.

A key part of the e-Academy model is that it brings together organisations that share similar issues within the field of social housing, and by doing so, creates a powerful, focused team which can quickly develop effective learning solutions.

In addition, the e-Academy plays an important role in helping to facilitate the adoption of e-learning within member organisations, and facilitates benchmarking and sharing of best practice across the sector.

Founder Member

We are extremely pleased to have incommunities (formally BCHT) as our founding member. The team have been instrumental in helping to get the first e-learning module off the ground and have demonstrated great enthusiasm for utilising e-learning to enhance the learning process.
The e-Academy is steadily growing in size, and now boasts of a number of RSLs and ALMOs across England and Wales as members.

We do hope that you will also want to get involved in the Housing e-Academy, and we look forward to working with you to help make a real change in education and training within the housing sector.