Online education programmes make education offered by IFWEA affiliates more accessible (especially during the global Covid-19 pandemic, when travel and face-to-face meetings were extremely limited). Through OLA, IFWEA is building a knowledge community of labour and community educators who share their curricula, materials and pedagogy, improving the quality and the range of education that can be offered to the global labour movement.

In addition to courses being delivered by affiliates to their constituencies, IFWEA uses OLA to host all the courses in the Foundation Skills for Social Change certificate programme, the Study Circles for Social Change programme, and the Youth Globalisation Awareness (YGAP) programme. You can download the IFWEA Activities schedule for 2023 here.

IFWEA offers training for educators to design and deliver courses using OLA, and will mentor and provide technical assistance to educators running the courses. If you are interested in designing and delivering courses using OLA, please contact the IFWEA secretariat at ifweasecretariat@lrs.org.za

A list of courses designed by affiliates can be viewed in the Affiliates section of OLA. If you are interested in viewing any of them, participating in them, or teaching them in your organisation, please contact the IFWEA secretariat at ifweasecretariat@lrs.org.za

Participants in courses have to register on OLA before they can be enrolled in a course. Participants must have a working email account. To register, click here and follow the instructions.

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