The Consortium’s Mandate
How OntarioLearn Works
OntarioLearn is a virtual organization responsible for managing the infrastructure and course inventory of all online courses offered through the consortium. The partner institutions in the consortium can be either a host institution or a registering institution.
The host institution retains ownership of the course content and is responsible for delivering the course across the province. Its pivotal role enables OntarioLearn to fulfil its mandate of offering accessible, flexible, high-quality online courses that meet current market demands.
The host institution designs, develops, and delivers online courses for consortium partners, oversees course quality and maintenance, appoints facilitators, and issues final grades.
A registering institution selects courses from the OntarioLearn course inventory to enhance and supplement its own catalogue of online offerings. This approach enables institutions to broaden their available courses without incurring the additional costs and resource commitments associated with developing, scheduling, and maintaining new courses independently.
As a result of OntarioLearn’s collaborative model, learners can access all 1,400+ courses available across the system and register for their selected courses with the institution of their choice.
In addition to the course inventory, institutions collaborated in the development of fully online programs that meet the needs of learners across the province. Quality Assurance policies and processes have been developed to support program sharing in addition to course sharing. Program Attestation documents outlining programs of study, quality review, and learning outcome changes are available to all institutions for shared programs to ensure up-to-date information is available for institutions when they make decisions about what programs to make available for their learners.
Enrolment Summary
Course Enrolment by Year
OntarioLearn’s annual enrolment total for the 2024/25 is 82,914. This is a 2.1% decrease over the previous fiscal year.
Course Enrolment by Institution
The following table details enrolment activity at each partner institution for 2024/25.
Our Intake Activity
OntarioLearn continues to offer courses not only each semester but monthly, giving learners more flexibility in choosing when to begin their studies. Since 2023/24, OntarioLearn also added weekly intakes of courses offered by College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading (CSCAU).
As the chart below demonstrates, although the majority of course enrolment resulted from courses offered on a semester basis, monthly intake enrolments continue to be attractive to online learners and account for 22% of the overall total enrolment for the 2024/25 year.
Included in the enrolment information is enrolment in the private and privately shared business streams, which now accounts for 12.5% of the overall total enrolment, a significant increase from previous years. These private streams are continuing to grow with the addition of activity, such as the Nursing Program Transformation Initiative (NPTI) and the weekly intake courses by CSCAU.
Course Enrolment by Intake
There were 18,611 monthly-intake enrolments reported for 2024/25. This accounts for 22% of the overall 2024/25 OntarioLearn enrolment activity. The weekly-intake enrollments accounted for 2.6% of the overall activity. The table below compares the enrolment activity in “semester-intake” courses, “monthly-intake” courses and “weekly intake” courses during 2024/25.
Enrolment by Intake
| Semester | Semester-Intake | Monthly Intake | Weekly Intake | Total 2024/2025 | |||||||
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| # Sections | Enrol. | % Enrol. Activity | # Sections | Enrol. | % Enrol. Activity | # Sections | Enrol. | % Enrol. Activity | # Sections | Enrol. | |
| Spring 2024 | 885 | 19,601 | 71.30% | 352 | 7,020 | 25.5% | 55 | 878 | 3.20% | 1,292 | 27,499 |
| Fall 2024 | 874 | 21,912 | 73.70% | 332 | 7,033 | 23.60% | 44 | 803 | 2.70% | 1,250 | 29,748 |
| Winter 2025 | 862 | 20,604 | 80.30% | 233 | 4,558 | 17.80% | 33 | 505 | 2.00% | 1,128 | 25,667 |
| Total | 2,621 | 62,117 | 74.90% | 917 | 18,611 | 22.40% | 132 | 2,186 | 2.60% | 3,670 | 82,914 |
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Hosting Institution Activity (2024-2025)
Academic Pathways
Courses
The OntarioLearn consortium is committed to providing a wide range of high-quality courses and programs and achieves this at a manageable cost to learners by placing a focus on reducing course overlap. This no-duplicate policy allows only one course in a particular subject area to be part of the OntarioLearn course inventory.
2024 – 2025 OntarioLearn Course Inventory
OntarioLearn is continually adding to the course inventory to assist learners on their academic journey. Currently, there are:
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- 1,418 courses available
- 66 new courses claimed and under development
Programs
In addition to continually developing and delivering new courses, one of OntarioLearn’s strategic priorities is to expand our offerings based on market demands. There are many credentials for online learners to choose from. Currently, there are 603 programs that lead to credentials listed on the OntarioLearn website. This great diversity of learning options for learners is a large part of what makes OntarioLearn so unique and successful.
Categories of Credentialed Programs
| Credential | College Approved Certificate | Ontario College Certificate | Ontario College Diploma | Ontario College Advanced Diploma | Ontario College Graduate Certificate | Bachelor's Degree | Other | Total Number of Programs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 392 | 27 | 36 | 3 | 53 | 1 | 91 | 603 |
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Program Inventory
There are 603 partner institution programs listed on the OntarioLearn website, as highlighted below.
If you need additional assistance, please contact:
ExecutiveDirector@ontariolearn.com.
