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http://www.onlinecourses.com/
"is a free and comprehensive resource that is a collection of open college courses that spans videos, audio lectures, and notes given by professors at Harvard, Princeton and MIT. We offer highly relevant courses such as iPhone Application Development from Stanford and Cyber Humor from Oxford."
(Optimized for mobile devices.)
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
"Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities."
https://www.khanacademy.org/
"Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge."
https://www.coursera.org/
"We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in."
https://www.edx.org/
"EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard."
http://www.core.org.cn/en/
"The China Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education.
CORE aims to provide Chinese universities with free and easy access to global open educational resources."
http://alison.com/
"ALISON* is the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning.
The mission of ALISON is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive, self-paced multimedia. It is our belief that through ALISON, the cost of access to high-quality education can be removed.
Through the ALISON learning platform we can assist people around the world in educating themselves, thereby creating a more equitable and sustainable global society.
We believe that all certifiable or standards-based learning for every subject can be made available for free online. We also believe that Article 26 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free..." will, through ALISON, become a reality.
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https://p2pu.org/en/
"Peer 2 Peer University (we mostly just say P2PU) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities.
Learning for the people, by the people. About almost anything."
https://www.udacity.com/us
"Our mission is to bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective higher education to the world. We believe that higher education is a basic human right, and we seek to empower our students to advance their education and careers."
http://www.ck12.org/student/
CK12 Foundation is a non-profit that creates and aggregate high quality , curated STEM content.
(STEM education is an approach to teaching and learning that integrates the content and skills of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.)
http://studentscircle.net/live/
"Students Circle Network is now part of the Beni American University – Research and Development Projects.
Students Circle Network, a Kyrenia-area start-up founded in 2010 - is an educational social network for college and high school students by providing free course resources | materials, live teacher help to students, scholarship offers, study groups and many more students services for free.
We are currently indexing over 10,431 courses from over 200 OpenCourseWare member universities from across the globe and providing over 15 study and focus groups in Business, Computing, Engineering, Sciences and Humanities."
Englishlink now offers free online English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. You can register for free to study at anytime of the day with video lessons and worksheets. All the videos feature a native English speaker.
Office phone: 416-285-7996
Fax: 416-285-5733
Email: info@alternativestoronto.org
Web site: www.alternativestoronto.org
Address: 1245 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON, M4J 1M8
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Location (Intersection): Toronto East (Greenwood Ave and Danforth Ave)
Hours: Monday to Friday 9 am-5 pm -- flexible for client meetings
Area served: Individuals -- Eglinton Ave E (north) to Danforth Ave (south), Broadview Ave (west) to Victoria Park Ave (east) groups -- City of Toronto
Languages of service: English ; Urdu ; Hindi ; Gujurati ; Farsi ; Dari
Eligibility: Persons 16 years and older with serious, longstanding mental health problems
How to apply: Call or walk in - self referral strongly encouraged
Fees: None
Physical access: Wheelchair accessible -- call for assistance barrier free washroom
Service description: Community mental health program - consumer/survivor participation in all aspects of agency
- case management/community support
- advocacy
- education
- supportive counselling
- groups
- links with other services
- information and referral
Consumer/Survivor and Family Community Development Project: supports consumer/survivor and family involvement in community mental health reform - promotes and develops community mental health supports
Organization type: Non Profit ; Registered Charity
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Last complete update: 2012-06-13
Office phone: 416-863-1074
Fax: 416-863-9440
Email: regentparkfocus@gmail.com
Web site: www.regentparkfocus.com
Address: 38 Regent St, Lower Level, Toronto, ON, M5A 3N7
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Location: (Intersection) Toronto East (Parliament St and Dundas St E)
Hours: Office -- Monday to Friday 11 am-5 pm
program hours vary -- call for details
Area served: Regent Park
Languages of service: English
Eligibility: Youth and young adults 11-24 years
How to apply: Office registration required
Fees: None
Physical access: Wheelchair accessible building including main entrance and barrier free washrooms
Service description: Promotes healthy community development through youth-created media productions -- weekly radio show, photography, video production, community magazine, music
- information and referral
- women's yoga and health sessions
- summer multi-media training camp
Organization type: Non Profit
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Last complete update: 2011-06-23
Counselling and Psychoeducational Clinic
Office phone: 416-978-0620
TTY phone: 416-924-4881
Fax: 416-926-4763
Email: beulah.worrell@utoronto.ca
Web site: clinic.oise.utoronto.ca
Address: 252 Bloor St W, Rm 7-296, Toronto, ON, M5S 1V6
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Location (Intersection) Toronto North (Avenue Rd and Bloor St W)
Officers: Dr Judith A Silver, Clinic Co-Director (Adult Services)
Dr Nancy Link, Clinic Co-Director (Child Services)
Contacts: Beulah Worrell, Clinic Secretary
Hours: September-May -- Monday - Friday 9:30 am-5:30 pm, after hours -- by appointment
- June-August -- no service
Area served: Greater Toronto Area
Languages of service: English
Eligibility: Adults and adolescents with interpersonal, emotional or learning problems
- children with learning and/or academic and/or social and emotional problems
How to apply: No referral required
Fees: Vary for different services
Physical access: Wheelchair accessible building including main entrance and barrier free washrooms
- braille and tone elevator
- designated parking
Service description: Therapeutic services -- counselling for adults, parents and adolescents
individual psychotherapy -- relationship problems, depression, anxiety, sexual abuse, eating disorders
assessment services -- psychological, educational, learning disabilities for adults, adolescents and children
literacy centre for children -- remedial and corrective reading, tutoring
clients are seen by supervised graduate students
Organization type: Non Profit
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Last complete update: 2011-02-02
Regent Park Credentials Assessment, Guidance & Continuing Education Pilot Will Be Holding One More Assessment Day In December
The University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies will partner with Toronto Employment & Social Services and Daniel's Corporation to provide foreign trained residents living in Regent Park an opportunity to enhance their academic credentials. So far over twenty participants have met with the U of T school of continuing studies to discuss their academic credentials and develop a service plan. There is room for one more day of assessments to get residents involved with this opportunity.
Background:
The pilot was developed to address chronic unemployment and underemployment of Regent Park Internationally trained professionals.
The Pilot:
A counsellor from The University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies will meet with foreign trained professionals at our Regent Park Employment Services office to provide:
- Academic guidance and support, referrals, and mentoring opportunities
- Access to courses through U of T's School of Continuing Studies
- International credential assessment
- Regent Park Employment Services staff will work closely with a University of Toronto counsellor and the residents to achieve academic success, develop a career direction, and ultimately assist in sustainable employment.
Financial Supports:
Eligible residents who require financial supports to pursue Continuing Education will receive financial assistance.
Who is Eligible:
- Regent Park Residents only (Bounded by Gerrard Street East to the north, River Street to the east, Shuter to the south and Parliament to the west)
- Must be unemployed or underemployed
- Must have post-secondary education outside of Canada
Referrals:
We are asking our community partners to identify and refer any potential foreign trained residents to this program. Residents can contact Regent Park Employment Services at 416-392-3456.
If you have any additional questions about this pilot, please contact RPES at 416-392-3456 or call Peter Foote at 416-392-3451.
Regent Park Employment Services
530 Dundas Street East, Toronto, ON, M5A2B3
Tel: 416.392.3456 | Fax: 416.392.4877
Notice No direct services for persons who are homeless
Office phone 416-469-0007
Fax 416-469-5313
Email inquiries@thtcentre.com
Website www.thtcentre.com
Address 661 Yonge St Ste 200, Toronto, ON M4Y 1Z9
Office phone: 416-972-0070
Toll-free phone: 1-866-343-0070
Fax: 416-972-9004
Email: canada@wes.org
Website: www.wes.org / www.wes.ca
Address: 45 Charles St East Ste 700, Toronto, ON M4Y 1S2
Office phone: 416-978-2400
Fax: 416-978-2185
Email: learn@utoronto.ca
Website: learn.utoronto.ca/ces.htm
Address: School of Continuing Studies, 158 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2V8