2020 served up disruptions, challenges, and uncertainty throughout the year. Ontario's Literacy and Basic Skills organizations worked quickly to find unique solutions to meet their clients' needs online and from a distance.

Community Literacy of Ontario interviewed several community-based LBS organizations and heard the stories of how organizations pivoted to make it through the difficult adjustment period of transitioning to remote service delivery.

Hear the inspirational stories of three LBS agencies: People, Words & Change, Spark Employment Services and The Literacy Group in our “Digital Resilience in Uncertain Times – LBS Stories and Strategies” webinar.

This learning path complements the Digital Transformation for Leaders and Digital Transformation for Tech Leaders learning paths, highlighting key ways to collaborate and communicate in the modern workplace. 

ELT Podcast is the home of several podcasts for learners and teachers of English as a second or foreign language. 

Earn various levels of Google for Education certification and distinguish yourself in your classroom and career. Price ranges from $10- $25

The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach learners to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand the intricacies of how it works and how it can be manipulated to mislead and even harm users. 

When you find a free or paid template that is in Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, or Google Drawings, do you know how to save that to your Google Drive and assign it in Google Classroom? 

Free & curated selection of literacy author webinars 

Set yourself apart from the pack by getting the essential soft skills--abilities that help people interact effectively with others--that employers value most, from communication fundamentals and being a team player to advancing your critical thinking skills. 

Explore our online professional development courses that provide the opportunity to learn and collaborate with your peers, in a flexible format. We have partnered with S&S Worldwide to bring you quality online courses to educators and school districts. When we began the professional development journey we wanted to bring you courses that offer real take-aways that can be used to improve your teaching and met criteria so that the hours can be put towards licensure renewal. Most courses we offer are self-paced, so there is no formal start or end date for completing a course, thus, giving you the freedom to complete assignments on your schedule. 

From the selection of workshops OTAN offers, adult educators can learn how to retrieve educational materials, collaborate with colleagues across the state, and implement technology into their programs or classrooms. The workshops cover a wide variety of topics including how to build online activities, creating instructional videos or Web sites, designing and sharing online resources, developing a safe social presence—pretty much anything to do with technology in an adult education program! The workshops fit a wide variety of skill levels and can even be customized to meet the respective needs of a program or site. Everyone benefits—and all workshops are free! 

Tips for professional development from QUILL Network

Free courses for professional development.

One year into the COVID pandemic: Insights from the Teaching Profession

Contact North's TEACHONLINE.CA  website offers over 100 webinars  to develop an instructor's knowledge and skills around virtual instruction.  Search the recordings of past webinars or sign up to receive notices about upcoming webinars. 

Through conversations with teachers, librarians, scholars and reporters, Monita explores the critical aspects of digital literacy that shape how we create and consume content online. Discover what educators and students alike need to know—and how we can all become safer, better informed digital citizens. 

High - quality opportunities for instructors and practitioners to develop their skills and understanding about best online learning practices and teaching with technology.

This new study explores how students are developing reading skills to navigate the technology filled world of the 21st century. The report provides new insights into ways to strengthen student skills, where our greatest challenges are with respect to helping students navigate ambiguity, and how to address the digital divide. 

A  webinar on the use of digital tools and platforms to support online learning and this segment looks at learning activities that could be delivered remotely and how this can be assessed and feedback delivered. 

Webinar presented by Literacy and English and Digital Learning and teaching teams on developing ideas and practices for teaching literacy in the primary school.

Watch Professor Garry Falloon and Dr. Emma Pauncefort, founder of Dilectae, discuss the skill that makes individuals responsible netizens in the webinar ‘Digital Literacy as the Essential 21st C Skill.’ 

Digital literacy skills are essential for adult learners to participate both in academics and in the workplace. Find out how Learning Upgrade’s Digital Literacy course, with a printed companion Workbook and Teacher Guide, provides standards-based lessons that address a wide range of skills necessary for all levels of adult learners. 

Literacy programs around the country are faced with converting their instruction to distance learning in a very short period of time. And many administrators, tutors, and teachers have little experience with distance learning themselves. Come hear from people who are figuring it out. 

All webinars are live and will be recorded for later viewing. Even if you cannot attend live, register and we will email the recording to you. 

In this webinar you’ll learn about critical historical events, as well as cultural and societal contributions of Indigenous peoples past and present.  

Find out how Learning.com's standards-aligned EasyTech digital literacy curriculum teaches Keyboarding, Online Safety, Computing Fundamentals, Computational Thinking and more to help students develop 21st century skills. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people struggled with understanding and accessing information, including key messages about public health information and employment supports. For those with unmet literacy, numeracy and digital skills needs, it was especially challenging. Latest statistics show that COVID-19 has impacted most on workers who have experience of educational and wider inequalities resulting in a lack of educational qualifications. A webinar to explore the importance of literacy, numeracy and digital skills in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.  

TERI organised a webinar on 'Media and Digital Literacy in Classroom to Combat Misinformation' with its support partner UNESCO 

Watch the the webinar on Online Safety together with our guest expert Barbara Buchegger from

Saferinternet 

This webinar will introduce the Teaching Tolerance Digital Literacy Lessons Suite to help you prepare your students to surf intelligently and responsibly. 

This webinar will help educators understand the science and psychology of self-care, including how educator self-care affects students. You will learn a variety of practices and tools, and you will be able to identify practices that work best for you so that you can thrive and really show up every day in your school community. 

This webinar will help you gain a common understanding of trauma and how it affects both learning and relationships—for students and educators alike. It will also examine ways to recognize trauma in students and address it, both virtually and in person. 

Developing literacy skills in a digital world: New findings from PISA 

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