Portal for Danish TUC Trainers Idea Content Access

Portal for Danish TUC Trainers Idea, Content, Access Bo Sorensen, June 2002 - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Political environment Union training - 2002 • The education fund has been decentralized. Responsibility for training of shop stewards has moved from TUC to individual unions • A minor fund, FKC, has been established to facilitate collective development activities • All in all - new competition - less co-ordination - more variety - less joint ownership. This calls for more focus on facilities for co-laboration and knowledge sharing? - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Portal setup from FKC Development fund: • 1) On the open Internet: Portal targeted for trade union trainers containing commented links to labour market Internet services • 2) With login: Material from union Intranets, Course relevant books, articles and external commercial bases • 3) With login: Access to online versions of existing training materials and establishment of a new tool to develop training materials - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Portal elements fiu-net. dk with login Internet Document depository Collection of commented links External commercial databases Teachers’ Info Centre - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen - Pedagogical tool box

Commented links • Objective: This base should give the typical trainer an overview of relevant sources on the net at her field, so that she can manage most of her reference work on her own. • The base must therefore cover labour market affairs in the broadest sense, it must be wellarranged, comprehensive and up-dated. • Method: In all credible Danish sites and in the most important international sites are relevant documents selected, indexed and described. - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Links should go to documents (deep links) • Information about homepages of ministries, organisations or institutions is trivial and is basically no support to information retrieval! • Relevant information is hidden in hundreds of complicated homepage constructions. • Media world does not like deep linking…? • ”Deep Linking is Good Linking. . . Deep linking is your friend: It gets users to their preferred destination as quickly as possible. ”-- Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox, March 2002. - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Problems with existing services • Only linking to the main addresses • Private or union link lists - slow and unreliable updating - inconsistent criteria • Public directories Danmark. dk (all unions are equal - no active selection - no overview) • Commercial sites like Yahoo. dk (sites register themselves - no selection - and sites can also buy themselves prominence) - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Link base - distribution • • TUC Union Internet sites Public institutions and administration Campaigns, NGOs, political life Other unions, white collar, academics Research centres, Universities Other organisations, employers, yellow Media International institutions - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen - 30% 20% 15% 10% 5% 5% 5%.

Links - examples Danish Environmental Research Centre List all • Everyday chemicals This report puts a focus at chemicals in cosmetics, plastics, washing powder and cleaning materials. Published March 2002. From the press release is a link to the full pdf version (61 p. ). (listed 2/6/02/BS) ( • Debate this link Female Workers Union in Denmark List all • A stable working environment Short overview with sub-headings: The safety steward, The workplace certification system, Monotonous repeated work, Mobbing and stress, Dangerous substances, Heat and noise, Cleaner air and water. (listed ( 2/8/01/BS) • Debate this link - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Links - examples Aalborg University List all • Changes in democracy and citizenship (DEMOS) Research group working with "Political steering, governance and democracy" and "Political participation, identity and culture". Among the researchers are Jørgen Goul Andersen and Johannes Andersen. (listed 2/8/01/BS) • Debate this link Trade Union Courses List all • Current offers in the field of ”Labour market in the future” • Debate this link - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Link base - updating Problems and possibilities: • A quality service requires continuos edition. Web pages live a short life (2% broken links/week) • Big sites from government, big unions or research centres must have daily nursing (40 -50 sites) • This project is suitable for co-laboration with a number of editors. The plan is one common version on the net and separate versions for the intranet of union offices or shop steward networks of the involved editors - Prototype base - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Info system for trainers • Relevant existing training materials are collected where electronic versions exist • Books, articles and similar materials are put into the system (simple example), (copyright situation must be clear) • New facilities, surf on index terms and search • Trainers can upload and download own bookmarks and materials • Trainer info online - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Pedagogical tool box • A common tool for the development of traditional training materials (Word and Power. Point-files, teacher’s materials, handouts, manuals) • Production directly into a web environment, facilities to work together, version management • Knowledge sharing support - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Exchange of relevant union materials Examples: • Full texts of court cases and arbitration settlements, • Collective agreement texts • Law comments and response from researchers or law • • • firms Collections of internal notes Special extracts or analysis of statistics Lots and lots of electronic versions of leaflets, magazines and much more from the Danish unions - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Commercial databases • • • Law commentaries and collections Newspaper archives CD-ROM-editions of health and safety information and similar encyclopaedias or dictionaries • International databases of scientific magazines? - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

News functions • • • Centrally selected news on the front page New-marking on all new links (flag) Portal front page can be edited by the end user, so that news from own field can be given prominence General email newsletter. Push-service with targeted news mails - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Access and navigation • Access verified by the course administration system. Link base also without password • As much as possible to be found from the front page, top level descriptors, search engine, own subjects and news • Identical descriptor taxonomy in the whole system (incl. web-version of general training catalogue) • Easy jump between general materials and user’s own uploaded files • Trainers’ bookmarks - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Debates and Conferences • Users can discuss individual links and texts directly on the screen • Existing conferences for trainers move to the portal for better search options and overview • Trainers can set up and manage new conferences on their own. - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Surroundings FIU-Net www. fiu-net. dk Administration and course catalogue Netmeetings Centra Knowledge sharing portal Conferences First. Class Groupware - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen - Elearning Top. Class

Interface between the e-learning elements Coherent types of keywords and metadata for surfing and searching: • Course catalogue and descriptions • Full text materials (Word, html, Power. Point, Flash, Shockwave, etc. ) • E-learning (Top. Class elements, video sequences) • Links with descriptions - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -

Project time table • 1) Internet portal with commented links: September 2002 • 2) Materials from union Intranets: Slow process starting this year. Course relevant books, articles and commercial bases: Test version ultimo 2002 • 3) Existing training materials: Test version ultimo 2002 (copyright issues complicated) • 3 a) Tool for development of training materials: Medio 2003 (prototype Public Workers’ Union). - trainers' portal - June 2002 / Bo Sorensen -