About e-Learning Ontario


Ontario's e-Learning Strategy

e-Learning Ontario is an essential online resource for the Ontario-funded school system, providing elementary and secondary teachers and learners with the flexibility they need to reach their goals. Through e-Learning Ontario, the Ministry of Education offers participating school boards new ways to teach Ontario's curriculum and help their students succeed.

In this winning partnership, school boards retain full responsibility for the delivery of courses and resources at the local level and e-Learning Ontario provides leadership, software tools, and guiding policies. For more information, refer to the Components of Ontario's e-Learning Strategy.

Increasingly, Ontario school boards are choosing to participate in the provincial e-learning strategy. By doing so, they gain access to valuable software and resources. This section describes how boards can participate in and administer the e-learning strategy. The information may also be of interest to parents, students, teachers, and other school staff.

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Components of Ontario's e-Learning Strategy

Components of Ontario's e-Learning Strategy

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Benefits to Boards

The provincial e-learning strategy equips school boards to do the following:

  • Gain access to high-quality e-learning credit courses.
  • Gain access to high-quality classroom resources for Kindergarten through Grade 12, linked to the provincial curriculum.
  • Use, at no cost, the provincial Learning Management System and the Ontario Educational Resource Bank.
  • Customize courses to meet their local needs.
  • Serve small, rural, and isolated schools where specialized teachers and resources may not be readily available.
  • Collaborate with other boards to enrol students in their e-learning courses.
  • Receive face-to-face and online professional development for e-learning teachers.
  • Gain access to a site where teachers share experiences with other teachers and administrators, in an evolving professional learning community.

Some boards are offering e-learning courses and resources through their own systems. This web site does not provide information about those systems.

Participating boards determine the access that their schools, teachers, and students have to the courses and resources in the provincial LMS and the Ontario Educational Resource Bank. For more information about the e-learning opportunities in your area, contact your local school board.

Courses delivered through e-learning must meet the same requirements as courses delivered in a traditional classroom. These requirements relate to curriculum evaluation and assessment; recording of student marks; and other information.