Beginnings of Online Education

Wayback in 1983, the Australian Federation of Credit Unions Ltd (AFCUL) launched the Australian Credit Union Video Network. Here we bring you the Network’s “Volume 1” which we recently digitised. Created as low-cost, in-house training for credit union staff and directors, each volume runs for an hour and is split into segments.

Volume 1 includes the first part of a series on “Teller Training” followed by “The Importance of Good Government Relations” featuring AFCUL’s Peter Timmins, “Collections – The Collection Call”, “Directors – Is This A Matter For The Directors?”, featuring Alan Parry, Chair of ED Credit, “Financial Counselling: Why & How”  and “The Supervisor’s Role In Staff Training”.

The last two segments feature material from the American Credit Union Video Network, a creation of American peak body CUNA, which inspired AFCUL to start its own video network. A proportion of all the Australian Credit Union Video Network volumes are repackaged CUNA material.

The Victorian Credit Co-operative Association (VCCA) produced the videos on behalf of AFCUL. Australian credit unions could subscribe to the series for two years, receiving one video a month for a cost of $3000.