Online and Distance Learning

You can find more and more accredited and informal courses and entire degree or certificate programs on the Internet. Like any other product or service, it is important to be a smart consumer when choosing the institution where you take your courses.

Related Web Sites

Distance Learning
A series of research articles from Charity Village.

Health Promotion 101
This course is intended for any and all health promoters in Ontario. The course is structured in 9 modules and arranged into 3 sections.

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CharityVillage Campus
CharityVillage Campus offers a series of web-based, self-paced courses that focus on core non-profit subjects like fundraising, volunteer management, and organization management.

Mental Health and Addiction 101
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has released a set of online tutorials to introduce topics concerning substance use and mental health problems. They are a useful starting point for learning about substance use and mental health problems.

The EMPIRICAL Initiative
EMPIRICAL - Educational and Media Partnership on Immigration and Refugee Issues for Computer-Assisted Learning - a comprehensive academic programme on migration issues.

Theory and Practice of Online Learning
This book presents individual practitioners’ views of the principal pedagogical and course management opportunities and challenges raised by the move to an online environment - 2004.