Global Workers’ Academy on Workers’ Education

Guided by the Global Workers’ Symposium on New Approaches to Workers’ Education for Trade Union Revitalization, the Global Workers’ Academy on Workers’ Education responded to the trade union needs to increase the quality of delivery of their training activities. The Academy contributed to the aspiration and commitment of the workers' education to embrace inclusivity, digital access, and lifelong learning, to act as a catalyst for union effectiveness, to adapt to emerging labour challenges, collaborate with the academia, promote solidarity, and explore flexible, innovative delivery methods for sustainable impact.

The Academy consisted of 4 complementary learning modules delivered in online modality combining synchronous and asynchronous learning. Each module consisted of one thematic live webinar complemented by tutor-led assignments on the e-campus, the ITCILO online platform. Participants’ assignments consisted of watching and analysing the videos, exploring InfoStories and self-guided e-learning modules, actively applying the methods in the Online Facilitation Toolkit, developing webinar plans, designing online training events and contributing to peer-to-peer exchange of good practices in Forum discussions.

OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of the Academy, the participants have acquired the competences to:

• Develop inclusive training for trade union revitalization

• Design and implement innovative learning experiences

• Adapt training content to various learner profiles and needs

• Integrate technology and digital tools in training

• Use e-learning platforms and tools effectively

• Apply newly acquired knowledge on emerging topics in the trade union movement and analyse the implications of these topics for trade unions and workers

• Develop facilitation and communication skills necessary for engaging diverse groups of learners

CONTENT

The course covered the following topics:

• M1: Revitalizing Trade Unions through Inclusive and Forward-looking Workers’ Education

• M2: Design and Implementation of Innovative Learning

• M3: Online Facilitation Tools and Techniques

• M4: New Topics in Trade Unionism

The Academy accomplished 6 interrelated and mutually reinforcing outputs:

• Output 1. ACTRAV-led Global Network of Trade Union Training Facilitators is established

• Output 2. Multiculturalism and inclusiveness at the heart of learning design

• Output 3. Increased facilitators’ confidence in working on new topics and with new approaches

• Output 4. Increased skill to create dynamic, engaging, and impactful training programs using the toolkit with new methods

• Output 5. New training modules and facilitation guidelines

• Output 6. Facilitators are prepared to apply learning innovation

The combination of the above outputs will contribute to higher quality of delivery of training activities and ultimately the revitalization of trade unions in terms of more effective institutional and organizational processes, transformative leadership and meaningful influence on economic and social policies in a sustainable development perspective.

NUMBER OF HOURS: 24