Gerhard Rohde Head of UNI IBITS

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e-LearningChallenges and opportunitiesfor
professional employees

• Gerhard RohdeHead of UNI IBITS
• Geneva, 11 December 2003

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Union Network International
1000 organisations

• Commerce
• Finance
• Postal and Allied Services
• Telecommunications
• IT and Business Services
• Graphical

• Property Maintenance and Security Services
• Media and Entertainment
• Social Insurance and Private Health Care

gt 15 million members
Regional offices in Africa, Asia, America, Europe
www.union-network.org
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U.S. IT Training Share, 19982004
Source IDC 22154, May 2000
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• Mid 90s our Norwegian affiliate FLT (union for
  engineers and technicians) started to
  experiment with e-learning
• virtual university they called the first
  platform

gt FLT long tradition in offering professional
training to members
E-learning began as a service for members working
on oil-rigs

• FLT set up a company AddiscoLearning Forum
• Today broad range of courses, thousands of
  students enrolled
• Courses are offered to members (at discount
  rates) and non-members
• Courses run for companies and other external
  clients
• Course ware developed in close cooperation with
  University of Bergen

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AddiscoLearning Forum

• Technology
• MY SQL, PHP programming, Appache servers

• Security
• User ID and Password
• Run on Addisco servers
• Addisco guarantees accessibility and sufficient
  line capacity

• Product idea
• ALF users administrators, mentors/teachers,
  students
• Access from everywhere, any time
• ALF combines tools used in distance learning
  and conventional teaching
• Multimedia technologies for
• forwarding information
• communication
• on-line courses, on-line learning

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• ALF Communication Platform
• Synchronous tools
• Chat channel (private or public)
• One-to-one channel
• communication between mentor and student
• Asynchronous tools
• e-mail
• discussion groups
• shared documents
• bulletin boards

• Study briefcase
• Training material developed by experts, logical
  structure
• Courses exist of large number of subjects,
  lectures, documents
• Mentors and teachers to guide and advise
  students

Blended forms classroom style elements
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AddiscoLearning Forum
European Computer Driving Licence most popular,
high acceptance among employees
Courses Frontline Management Popular among
technicians
Under construction Global UNI certificate for
trade union managers
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• AddiscoLearning Forum has gone international
• Other Scandinavian countries involved
• Most recent project UK Way ahead training

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Avoid Hype and Utopism
Exists even in Europe North South Gap Urban
centers rural areas
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Learning progress
Action
Absorption
Internet search
Communities of practices
Awakening, Motivation
Learning tension
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E-learning, online learning bright future

• Realistic approach needed
• Emphasis on learning not on the e !
• Not a substitute for conventionalteaching and
  learning
• Online rights for online employees
• access to internet during working hours