TopClass Selected by Danish Confederation of Trade Unions to Train their 1.5 Million Members

Rapid Content Development Tools and Ability to Create Powerful Learning Community via Collaboration Features Cited as Major Reasons for Win.

WBT Systems today announced that the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (Danish LO) has selected the TopClass e-Learning suite to manage and deliver blended learning programs to its 1.5 million members across 22 different unions. TopClass is being used to consolidate knowledge from Danish LO's huge membership base, leveraging existing content by re-purposing it for a wider audience via e-Learning, rapidly capturing existing knowledge from subject matter experts and bringing together members into a common learning community where they can all contribute and benefit from each other's experiences.

LO, The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, is the largest national trade union confederation in Denmark and is recognised as the most representative workers' organisation in both the public and the private sector. LO's main objective is to handle employee interests vis-à-vis employers and authorities. Through its cooperation with associations, consortia and other trade union organisations, LO seeks to influence the government and the political parties when it comes to drafting and implementing legislation, especially in relation to labour market policies.

Danish LO had a number of serious challenges to meet in an e-Learning program; firstly, having such a huge user base, it was going to be difficult to bring the wealth of experience of its members together in a way that would be useful to the group. In addition, existing systems needed to be integrated in order to make e-Learning a key part of their business processes rather than a mere add-on application. Lastly, they had a large number of subject matter experts that would need to be able to produce content without having instructional design knowledge.

“TopClass impressed us with its openness, knowledge capture tools and features to easily repurpose classroom training. However, the ability to bring all this information together into a central repository where all our members can meet as a learning community is what really makes this solution special” said Kenneth Lovholt, e-Learning Project Manager, Trade Union Centre of Competency, Danish LO. “In addition TopClass Publisher has proven easy to use for our knowledge experts - allowing them to produce e-Learning content quickly with the minimum of additional training."

February 4th, 2003