1. UPDATE - OCULL 2012 college, university & literacy programs & courses right where you live!

2. Updates  About us  Where we are  Who we promote and support  Student Portal Overview — Stats  Data Transfer Update  Faculty & Instructors Portal Overview — Stats  Promotional efforts  Future Directions  Feedback & Input

3. About us  Your distance education & training network  Established in 1986  Funded by the Government of Ontario  Student & Faculty/Instructor Portals  Working with publically funded colleges, universities, school boards and essentials skills providers  Focus on small, rural and remote communities

4. We are present in rural areas (over 1M)

6. Ontario Online Learning Student Portal

7. Student Portal Overview — Stats  www.studyonline.ca www.studyonline.ca  February 2012 enhancements launched based on student usability study results (see 2 handouts)  28,083 unique visitors March 2012–Sept. 30, 2012 (average of 4,000/month)  Over 5,000 link-outs from search results pages to institutions’ eLearning pages (April to September 2012 – reports to be published this fall).

8. Student Portal: Program Search Page

9. Student Portal: Link-Outs

10. Student Portal: Data Transfer  www.studyonline.ca www.studyonline.ca  In January 2012, 19 partners shared data electronically, we now stand at 31 of 44 (only 6 universities left)  12 universities share data on a semester basis  Waterloo and Guelph have an XML feed which ensures timeliness and accuracy of data  There is still time to act regarding Winter offerings  Our goal: 44 XML feeds by December 2013.

11. Ontario Online Learning Portal for Faculty & Instructors

12. Faculty & Instructors Portal Overview — Stats  www.contactnorth.ca/home www.contactnorth.ca/home  Key Features: Pockets of Innovation / Trends & Directions / Training Opportunities / Tips & Tools / Partner Corner / Online Learning News  September 2012 enhancements launched based on Educator usability study results (also see handout)  11,494 unique visitors March 2011 – Sept. 30, 2012 (average of 600 per month)

13. Promotional efforts  Coordinators and Assistants in 112 online learning centres promote Ontario’s publicly-assisted offerings  Fall 2012 promotional campaign with Student Reference Group: OUSA, CFS-O, CSA  facebook.com/ContactNorth twitter.com/ContactNorth (Please like & follow us) facebook.com/ContactNorth twitter.com/ContactNorth  Online Learning News: bi-weekly e-newsletter (7,500 – please subscribe & share internally).

14. Future Directions  Student Portal – More:  Data Transfer & Automation  User Enhancements  Promotion/Reach  Faculty & Instructors Portal – More:  Features for interaction between users  Resources  Online Learning News/Reach

15. Feedback & Input  What other future directions should we undertake?  What could we be doing better?  How can we better support your institution?  How can we better support the university sector?  What is your one wish for Contact North?

16. Thank you!