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This website provides easy to use online communications tools to help people share, learn and work together. It is aimed at anyone with an interest in bringing about positive change for people with health and social care needs.
The learning community aims to promote the learning of basic and key skills through the training of Union Learning Representatives. Representatives are trained on TUC courses to give frontline advice and guidance to potential learners.
Learning Reps are a bit like Health and Safety Reps, but making the workplace smarter rather than safer! The Project and learning reps are supported by TUC learning services, who give practical help with workplace learning developments. Learning Services also work with providers to develop tailor made courses for workers and employers.
The learning Project is funded by the Learning and Skills Council. The Learning and Skills Council are the government body responsible for funding and planning education and training for 16+ learners in England. Anyone interested in finding out more about the learning Project or becoming a Learning Rep should contact them directly.
The project is designed to provide an online learning portal so that Union Learning Reps can give advice to learning members about training and development.
The economic sectors represented by ONLINE LEARNING (ESC Education Discover all the e-learning products of the ESC family)are heavily dependent on atypical employment relationships including freelance professionals, short-term contracts and casual employment. In particular, film and TV production and theatre all rely heavily on atypical working relationships. The result is that both workplace learning and trade union organisation suffer related difficulties; workplace learning takes place at a level below optimum benefit for the sectors and at the same time union organisation is difficult to maintain. These effects are related.
The role of the learning rep, within these specific sectors is, therefore, critical to brokering learning opportunities and promoting a partnership approach to creating a learning culture. However, they are confronted with serious difficulties in communication, co-ordination and accessing the latest information about learning initiatives and opportunities.
They would like to construct an interactive website specifically for Union Learning Representatives and seek ULF support to establish it. The project is modelled on the success of the Whitehall-on-line ULF project for Amicus-MSF. We would like to construct an interactive website that will be an online 'toolkit', where learning reps and other reps can access up-to-date information, share ideas and best practice through a supported bulletin board, download resources and link to a small number of key sites for the industry including skillsformedia, Metier, Learndirect, LSC and TUC Learning Services. The site will be a one-stop portal for accessing information at all levels of learning from Basic and Key Skills, to vocational training from sector skills councils such as Skillset, to pathways into further and higher education.
Eventually the site will offer Open and Distance Learning modules from the TUC and other partners that will act as pathways to higher education. ONLINE LEARNING is a small organisation with limited resources and an online information exchange and toolkit is the most efficient way to involve, inform, motivate and retain learning reps who regularly have to deal with new work locations, new employers and new colleagues. The second year of the project will be devoted to the recruitment and training of regional facilitators who will convene regional ULR forums and contribute local and regional relevance to the site by inputting news and information to the website themselves. Courses available online
We intend that they should work closely with local LSCs and FE colleges. By devolving authorship but not responsibility (which will remain with the National Training Officer) the online toolkit will retain relevance and be within the resources of ONLINE LEARNING to develop beyond the time-line of the project.
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