Explore a library of more than 2,000 interviews with the world's biggest thinkers.

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, let by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Free lecture notes, exams and videos from MIT.

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• View presentations on the latest insights and key strategies.
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Check out the teacher training toolkit modules below to develop your teaching skills in a variety of different areas. Each module contains a short reading, a video, video reflection questions, and a follow-up classroom task with reflection questions. Work through the modules independently, or join together with other teachers to discuss, reflect, and develop as a team. 

The topics covered in the toolkit will help you to develop your skills as an adult ESL teacher, whether you are a classroom assistant, teach small groups, one-to-one, or lead large classes.

This research report investigates the links between formal, non-formal and informal learning and the differences between them. In particular, the report aims to link these notions of learning to literacy and essential skills, as well as the learning of second and other languages in Canada.

This site provides support to partners and agencies delivering Employment Ontario projects or services as part of the Employment Ontario network. It provides tools and materials to support the Employment Ontario brand, and employment and training information and services within the Employment Ontario network of service providers.

This website provides free training modules to meet the training requirements under Ontario’s accessibility laws (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act). Developed in partnership with the Government of Ontario.

Literacy Basics is a free, self-directed online training website for Ontario literacy practitioners. This innovative training website was researched, written and designed by Community Literacy of Ontario.

Snow is an online community service provided by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto. They offer articles, resources, news, and courses for anyone interested in learning about special education, adaptive technologies, inclusion, inclusive design, and web accessibility. 

The Excellence Gateway is the Education and Training Foundation’s resources portal and provides online access to an unrivaled breadth of resources for everyone working in the wider learning and skills sector in England.  Within this library are over 7,000 resources that can be searched either through free text search or by browsing according to the themes, resource types, subject area, etc that you are interested in.  

Several downloadable research papers from The Conference Board of Canada focus on literacy in the workplace.

TOWES (Test of Workplace Essential Skills), developed by the British Columbia Construction Industry Skills Improvement Council and Bow Valley College, offers testing and training that uses workplace documents to measure three essential skills needed for safe and productive employment.