Contact North | Contact Nord helps educationally underserved Ontarians in 600 small, rural, remote, Indigenous and Francophone communities access online learning to get a degree, diploma, certificate from Ontario’s public colleges and universities or upgrade their skills via online learning without leaving their communities.
Click on the examples below and learn how these individuals use Contact North | Contact Nord’s services to complete their education and training.
Online Learning Centre: Haileybury
Institution: Northern College
Program: Northern Colleges Collaborative Program in Business Fundamentals Certificate
Technology, video conferences, learning on the web, this is the future
Online Learning Centre: Sandy Lake First Nation
Institution: Good Learning Anywhere Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council
Program: First Steps
He was grateful he could go to the online learning centre and use the computer
Online Learning Centre: Dryden
Institution: Confederation College
Program: Practical Nursing Diploma
I never did online learning before but I don’t mind, I actually prefer working with computers
Online Learning Centre: Bracebridge
Institution: Algonquin College
Program: Property Management Foundations Diploma
I wanted to make sure I could get funding and it was creditable. Contact North helped me with that
Online Learning Centre: Cochrane
Institution: Northern College
Program: Social Service Worker Diploma
I never did online classes before and wasn’t sure what I would need but everything fell into place
Online Learning Centre: Kincardine
Institution: Fanshawe College
Program: Project Management Graduate Certificate
Coming from a small town, I prefer to take programs through Contact North so I don’t have to move away
Online Learning Centre: Sioux Lookout
Institution: Confederation College
Program: College Access Certificate and Business – Human Resources Diploma
I just sign in from home; I can even sign in from my mobile phone
Online Learning Centre: Chapleau and Elliot Lake
Institution: Northern College
Program: Social Service Worker
I prefer online learning. This is my school at the online learning centre. This is my campus.
Online Learning Centre: M’Chigeeng First Nation
Institution: Native Education & Training College of Business, Healthcare, Human Service & Technology
Program: Personal Support Worker
Online learning was perfect for me...I live a busy life and where there was Internet, I could complete my assignments.
