Who We Are

On-Line Education Working Group Mission Statement:

The On-Line Education Working Group will study and report on issues pertaining to the use of IT, social media, and other new media forms. OLEWG will focus on issues of worker/student education at multiple levels and in various formats, including union training, extension programs, non-credit, and credit courses. OLEWG will also collect data and develop reports on the use of new media in union and community education, organizing, and mobilization. As the point of worker/labor education is building a strong, progressive labor movement, OLEWG will try to evaluate the relative effectiveness of different formats, and disseminate to labor educators information on best practices in the field. We will focus our efforts on encouraging the sharing of information and the production of research on all issues relevant to on-line worker/labor education and issuing, through UALE, periodic updates on what works, what doesn’t, and what is possible in the field of on-line labor education.

Join Us

To learn more about the working group, or to join, please contact one of the Co-chairs.

On-Line Education Working Group Co-Chairs

Lucy Callaghan
Online Education Specialist
AFSCME International Department of Education and Leadership Training
1625 L Street NW – Washington, DC 20036
Phone 202 429-1233 –  fax 202 429-5088

Professor Joseph Varga
Labor Studies Program
Indiana University Bloomington
400 East Seventh Street Poplars 631
Bloomington, IN 7405-3085
812-855-9085