In this research program we worked with partners in the labour movement to assess the problems and possibilities of online communications for labour education. The research was funded by the Telelearning Network of Centres of Excellence and the New Approaches to Lifelong Learning research network.

There were two separate, but related, projects in the research program:

Reports

Project Description: The Design, Delivery and Evaluation of Union-based Telelearning

Phase I Progress Report (1995-1999)

Phase II Project Report (1999-2000)


Papers and Presentations

"The Continental Classroom: Teaching Labour Studies On-Line," Labor Studies Journal 21(1) (Spring 1996).

"Labour Education and the Internet" ( an online course for labour educators designed and delivered in 1996)

"The Solidarity Network: Universities, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Labor Studies in Canada," in Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen, eds., Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

"The Political Constraints and Pedagogical Possibilities of Computer-based Labour Education," Canadian Association of Distance Education Conference, (Banff, AB, May 1998) (with Derek Briton).

"Computer Networks and Labour Education," Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Proceedings of the 16^th Annual Conference, (St. John’s, NF, June 1997) (with Derek Briton).

"TeleLearning: Implications for Labour Education and Adult Education," Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Proceedings of the 15^th Annual Conference (Winnipeg, 1996) (with Derek Briton).

"Online Workers' Education: How Do We Tame the Technology?," International Journal of Instructional Media, Volume 28, Number 2, 2001 (with Derek Briton)

"Union E-Learning" In Bruce Spencer and Michael Law, eds., Labour Education in the Twenty-first Century: International and Comparative Perspectives. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 2001

Reports

Project Summary

Progress Report (April 1999--March 2000)

Final Report