Knowledge Ontario

Learn Ontario

About

Building Digital Literacy
We provide discovery and access to the quality learning tutorials that will help you make the most of your digital literacy skills.
Find the help you need - when you need it. We offer a rich collection of online tutorials to help you learn and use:
• standard workplace and production software applications,
• provincially licensed OESS K-12 software,
• "web 2.0" and social media tool sets.

FAQ

I normally just “Google” for help when I get stuck... why are you building this discovery access portal?

Contrary to popular belief, Google does not provide the ideal tech support for software or "how-to" user problems...

Aren't these videos already available on the Internet?

Some of these are openly available on the Internet; others require passwords, and some involve licensing fees. We've tried to identify the best, and wherever possible, to point you in the direction of resources you have a right to access...

A portal full of online tutorials and training, available 24/7 sounds wonderful! How can I access this?

You can a) bookmark the LearnOntario.ca discovery portal,

b) subscribe to an RSS feed of your specific search results, or

c) actually embed a live LearnOntario.ca search widget over on your own site... [details]

Demo

You can explore the full LearnOntario.ca portal in detail, or just take a quick peek by entering a software title you use into our handy search widget... (You'll get a quick list of available tutorials and supports.)

Latest news

The Learn Ontario discovery portal was launched at OLA's 2010 SuperConference...

Services

Learn Ontario is the Knowledge Ontario project focused on ensuring that digital learning tutorials are readily available online, 24/7 to help Ontarians make the most of their digital literacy skills...

Partners

LearnOntario is partnering with Atomic Learning to provide 24/7 online tutorials and support for the common software and web applications we use daily.

During 2009/10 the intial phases included Ontario school boards, colleges, universities and public libraries as pilots of the project.

Milestones

As part of a pilot project in using Atomic Learning videos, LearnOntario is creating a database of shared teaching tools, tutorials and resources that can be re-used and adapted by others. Launched in 2008, the project creates a solid support for utilizing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

In the media

Introducing: LearnOntario.ca [PDF] - Teaching Librarian