Tuesday 6 January 2009
The Big Oxford Computer Co. Ltd.
Unionlearn provides support and advice on lifelong learning and workforce development across England and plays a key role in meeting the Government's Skills Strategy. It will focus on literacy and numeracy skills, and also aims to encourage greater employer support for training and strengthen union membership. The project is a partnership between the Department for Education and Skills and TUC, and the Government.
To develop 'TUC Tutors' is an online community for UK Trade Union education practitioners from unionlearn with TUC Education.
BOCC worked with unionlearn to develop the new website with the main aim of encouraging TUC tutors to actively use the site on a more regular basis.
TUC tutors run a range of courses from a number of designated learning centres throughout the UK for union members. Commonly the same course is run in each learning centre and therefore each centre can share the same classroom resources. The secure website includes a structured way of finding these resources via the new 'Course Materials and Resources' section, so that the need for duplication is reduced.
The 'Course Development Lab' also enables tutors to work with other TUC tutors and the TUC Education Team to create new resources.
One of the other main requirements for the new site was to seamlessly integrate with the existing discussion forum - 'Eve' that is driven by a third party provider.
The system utilises: