LearnOntario: Supporting Digital Literacy

Learn Ontario is a great site for how-to videos on a wide variety of topics - popular software applications, internet applications, design software, etc.

Learn Ontario is part of the Knowledge Ontario portfolio of services, developed with the following goals:

1. Bridge the digital divide by providing equitable and seamless access to high quality digital content and services to people at every stage of life and reflective of Ontario’s diverse communities
2. Strengthen libraries as community hubs of learning and literacy by adopting and delivering new technologies and innovative services
3. Enable the creation of informed, engaged and digitally literate citizens
4. Build Ontario’s digital literacy and critical thinking skills through creation of innovative, collaborative, web-based learning tools
5. Support life-long learning and close the gap experienced by students and adult learners in Ontario’s remote and rural communities by delivering quality electronic databases, virtual reference services and digital learning tools
6. Enable communities to create and manage sustainable digital content about Ontario history and culture and make it discoverable to a wider audience

This visionary program is facing severe funding challenges.  Please go to Knowledge Ontario to take a look at the full suite of services while we have them!