The document discusses the Ontario Online Learning Portal hosted at www.click4onlinelearning.ca. The portal was created by Contact North/elearnnetwork.ca, Canada's largest distance education network, to help promote online learning opportunities across Ontario. It currently lists over 12,000 online courses and 1,000 programs from over 100 educational providers. Users can search the live website to find programs and courses filtered by keywords, subject area, level, institution and more. Future plans include adding more user-friendly search and comparison tools.

1. THE ONTARIO ONLINE LEARNING
PORTAL
WWW.CLICK4ONLINELEARNING.CA
COU Online Working Group – November 8,
2010

2. Objective
 To provide the COU Online Working Group
with a brief presentation and demonstration of
the Ontario Online Learning Portal at
www.click4onlinelearning.ca

3. Who We Are
 Contact North/elearnnetwork.ca is the
Canada’s largest distance education and
training network
 Contact North was created in 1986
 112 local centres span the more than one
million square kilometres that make up Ontario

4. 10 Steps
 In response to the announcement of the Ontario
Online Institute, Contact North/elearnnetwork.ca
committed to 10 Steps to help take online
learning in Ontario to the next level
10 Steps include:
1. Growing the network of centres across Ontario
2. Hosting Ontario Online Learning Portal
3. Delivering Emerging Technologies Training
Program
4. Organizing Emerging Technologies Briefings

5. 10 Steps (continued)
5. Providing expertise in course development and
instructional design
6. Monitoring trends and directions in technology in
learning
7. Delivering province-wide training on pedagogy in the use
of videoconferencing
8. Facilitating e-Channel literacy course registrations
9. Offering videoconferencing and Saba Centra e-learning
platform to all Ontario colleges and universities
10. Developing Key Performance Indicators to measure our

6. Over 100 Educational Providers
Ontario, Canada as a jurisdiction, has over:
 5 literacy & basic skills online providers
 42 high school online providers
 24 college online providers
 20 university online providers
 15 non-profit informal learning online providers

7. Ontario Online Learning Portal
www.click4onlinelearning.ca

8. Portal Statistics
Sector # of Programs # of Courses
College 858 8,135
University 155 2,199
Secondary 2 1,724
Literacy 12 137
Other/Informal
Learning
17 784
Total 1,044 12,979

9. Portal Statistics
Programs by Type
Program Type Number
Advanced Diploma 5
Bachelor’s Degree 24
Certificate 771
Diploma 109
Doctoral Degree 1
Graduate Certificate 27
Masters Degree 12
Recognition of Achievement 97
Total 1,044

10. How Does It Work?
 Live Website Search
 Keyword
 Program or Course
 Program Type
 Level
 Field of Study
 Institution
 Delivery method

11. The Future?
 More user-driven functionalities:
 Compare courses and programs
 Print Study Options
 More filter options

12. Contact Us
Luc Comeau
Contact North/elearnnetwork.ca
1-866-601-1501
luc@elearnnetwork.ca
www.contactnorth.ca
www.elearnnetwork.ca
www.click4onlinelearning.ca