E-Learning Helping Northern Ontario

The creation of a distance education program for residents in southern Ontario is expanding learning opportunities for northern Ontario citizens.

Raeann Watson, coordinator for Contact North's site in Fort Frances, says they're working with E-learning to bring access to post-secondary institutions and programs never available in the past.

"The best example is Lambton College, working with Sheridan College, working with Confederation College, is putting on the pharmacy tech training right now," says Watson. "Up until Confederation agreed to work with Lambton and Sheridan to put it on, the techs that needed to get that upgrading were scheduled to go to southern Ontario."

Watson says with E-Learning, students can take programs that fit their own schedule.