Contact North (French: Contact Nord) is Ontario's distance education and training network with 112 online learning centres that span the more than one million square kilometres that make up Ontario. The network partners with Ontario’s 24 public colleges, 20 public universities, school boards, and literacy and training providers to help Ontarians in communities across the province participate in education and training opportunities without leaving their own community.
The organization’s student portal helps students and prospective students across the province find information on more than 18,000 online courses and more than 1,000 online programs offered by Ontario’s public colleges and universities. Contact North also acts as an advocate, catalyst and facilitator of innovation in online and distance learning.
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