Electronics Lifecycle Care Institute

Home / Online learning

Learn online. Practise where the equipment is.

Most ELCI courses start online, wherever you work. Theory, live classes and knowledge exams are online. Hands-on practicals and observed assessments happen at an ELCI centre, because a repair cannot be proven on a screen.

Register for a courseTry a free lesson

Ways to study

29

Fully online

Awareness courses are self-paced. Leader, analyst, policy and finance courses run as live online classes with a project.

See online courses

23

Blended

Study the theory online at your own pace, then attend a short practical block and observed assessment at an ELCI centre.

See blended courses

13

At a centre

Rework, calibration, dismantling, metal recovery and sector specialisations are taught mostly on the bench.

See centre courses

How it works

From sign-up to the public register

Online study uses the ELCI learner portal. Registered learners receive their sign-in details by email when their cohort opens.

  1. RegisterChoose a course, delivery and start month on the registration page. Employers can register a group.
  2. Study onlineShort video lessons, readings, worked examples and live classes. Lessons download for study on mobile data.
  3. Check your progressQuizzes after each module, and a tutor who answers questions within two working days.
  4. Sit the knowledge examOnline and invigilated. The pass mark is 80% overall, with 100% on safety and ethics.
  5. Prove it on the benchBlended learners attend a practical block and an observed assessment at an ELCI centre or accredited partner centre.
  6. Join the registerCompetent learners receive a certificate that anyone can check on the public register.

Online catalogue

Courses you can start online

Every course below begins online. Blended courses finish with a practical at a centre.

Loading the catalogue…

Free taster lesson

E-value in ten minutes

Read four short cards from the Awareness courses, then answer five questions. Nothing you enter is sent or stored.

  1. A faulty device is a patient, not a corpse. A fault is not a death. Equipment is triaged, diagnosed, treated and released through quality gates. Nothing is declared beyond repair until a certified technician has proven it so.
  2. Keep, restore, renew, harvest, recover. The closer an asset stays to its original use, the more value, energy and embodied carbon it keeps. Recycling is the last loop, not the first.
  3. Safety first, always. A swollen, burnt or leaking battery is never powered or opened. Isolate it in safe storage and call a certified practitioner.
  4. Every device deserves a passport. A Device Passport is one record for the whole life of a unit: its origin, duty, every fault and repair, who signed for it, and how it was finally returned.

Check what you learned

1. How does ELCI see a faulty device?
2. Which route keeps the most value?
3. A battery pack is swollen. What do you do?
4. When can a unit be declared beyond repair?
5. What does a Device Passport record?

What you need

Ready to study online

A phone or computer

The portal works in any modern browser. Lessons can be downloaded for study on mobile data or offline.

A few hours a week

Plan four to eight hours a week for a blended course, or study an Awareness course in a day or two.

A way to reach a centre

Blended and centre courses need you at an ELCI centre for the practical. Ask about accredited centres near you.

Start learning

Register yourself, or a group of staff, for the next cohort.

Register for trainingBrowse all courses