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Searchable Directory of Ontario EdTech Companies

 

Ontario is a major hub in the fast-growing EdTech market, with more than 75 established and recent start-ups in educational technology and corporate training.

These organizations cover the full spectrum of education and training services, from consulting, design and development of online courses to classroom response systems (CRS) and AI-enabled solutions to learning challenges.

Some companies, including D2L and Top Hat, already have a significant share of the global market. Others are ready to quickly expand with services for students, colleges and universities, and corporate training.

Home to 24 public colleges, 22 public universities and the headquarters of some of Canada’s largest companies, Ontario is a hotbed of innovation and development. The global educational technology (EdTech) market could be worth $341 billion by 2025 (with a compound annual growth rate of 11%). Ontario has a major strategic advantage because of its ability to develop high-quality solutions in both English and French.

With this searchable directory, Contact North | Contact Nord provides colleges, universities, training providers and investors from the around the world with information on how to find the latest products and services from Ontario-based EdTech companies. Their products and services often lead to improved learning experiences.

This is an evolving directory of Ontario EdTech companies and services as we add, update and occasionally delete organizations no longer in business.

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Contact North | Contact Nord does not endorse or recommend any of the companies listed in the directory.

Education and training providers using the products or services of any companies in this list should do their due diligence prior to selecting a vendor.

Categories

Each company in the directory is grouped into one of 15 categories.

Interaction tools

Virtual platforms that allow for interaction between students, faculty and/or content, whether through video conferencing, text discussion or class response system (CRS).

Consulting/Custom Development Companies

The companies in this category provide custom online learning design and development consultant services, hosting and management of learning services.

Corporate training

Also known as workplace learning, courses are designed to educate employees, either synchronously or asynchronously. Workplace learning helps employees obtain and hone knowledge and skills to progress professionally and personally.

Courseware

Software or other material designed for use in an educational or training course. Many also offer a learning management system (LMS) to manage their courseware. Subscribers have access to LMS information to integrate with their own LMS.

Learning Management System (LMS)

LMS is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of e-learning courses.

Online tutoring

This is tutoring 2.0! Web-based tutoring in a variety of subjects through synchronous and asynchronous communications from subject experts.

Accessibility

Platforms to improve learner access and success for disabled and disadvantaged students.

e-Portfolio

A platform that showcases a digital collection of work representing a learner’s knowledge, skills and accomplishments.

Hardware

Devices designed to enhance virtual instruction.

Information management system

Information management systems typically organize and manage information such as registrations, admissions, scheduling, gradebook, etc. Features vary widely depending whether the focus is on administration, teachers, students or a particular functionality (e.g. research applications or online lesson planning).

Study aid

From game apps to tools for test preparation, this category focuses on apps and online platforms that help students with their coursework and studies.

Teaching aid

A teaching aid is anything used by a teacher to help teach a lesson or make it more interesting to students.

Virtual classroom

A digital learning environment that allows instructors and learners to connect online in a live or on-demand course.

Assessment

These companies feature products that are useful for evaluating and grading students’ knowledge and comprehension of course content.

Job readiness

Online platforms that help students prepare for the workforce through features such as skills training and resume writing.

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Company Category Description Details
Acadiate e-Portfolio

Digital Portfolios for Students and Faculty. Students: capture, manage, and showcase educational journey. Faculty: document, manage, and share the evolution of their teaching practice.

Core Product: Digital portfolios
Target Consumer: Corporate, Higher Ed
Website: https://www.acadiate.com/

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Acadium Job readiness

Students: starting point for digital marketing career. Gain skills, work experience, and industry relationships needed to get hired. Industry: provides mentorship to an apprentice. In exchange, they help tackle marketing projects unpaid as part of their training.

Core Product: Digital marketing online courses, online apprenticeship, networking
Target Consumer: Corporate, Higher Ed
Website: https://www.acadium.com/

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Akindi Assessment

Akindi is a web based assessment system that automates the creation and grading of multiple choice examinations for K-12 teachers and college/university instructors. Unlike Scantron’s system that uses proprietary scanners and paper, Akindi allows users to use any scanner and any sheet of paper.

Core Product: Student assessment, automated grading, analytics
Target Consumer: Higher Ed, K-12
Website: https://akindi.com/

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Ame Learning Courseware

Develop print, online and  interactive accounting resources for Financial, Managerial, Principles, Survey, and Non-Major accounting courses at higher learning institutions and web-based interactive accounting resources and tutorials for business units.

Core Product: Accounting resources and tutorials
Target Consumer: Corporate, Higher Ed
Website: https://www.amelearning.com/

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Ametros Learning Consulting/Custom Development Companies

Ametros designs and develops custom and off-the-shelf AI-based experiential learning modules for academic and corporate learning organizations that allow for adaptive, skills, and knowledge-based learning and assessment in a contextually authentic environment.

Core Product: AI-based Experiential learning, custom and off the shelf
Target Consumer: Corporate, Higher Ed
Website: https://ametroslearning.com/

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ApplyBoard Information management system

ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions on one platform.

Core Product: International student recruitment and admissions platform
Target Consumer: Higher Ed, K-12
Website: https://www.applyboard.com/ca/

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Ascentify Corporate training

Cloud-based workforce development solutions that integrate job skills, communication, and language learning.

Core Product: eSuite - job skills training with language and communications training
Target Consumer: Corporate
Website: http://www.ascentify.com/

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Axonify Corporate training

Employee Knowledge Platform that uses  microlearning & knowledge-on-demand to train frontline staff. Specializes in: on boarding, engagement, communication, measurement, compliance, on-the-job-performance, job development.

Core Product: Frontline LMS
Target Consumer: Corporate
Website: https://axonify.com/

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BigBlueButton Interaction tools

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for online learning.  The goal is to enable engage students in real-time to promote learning.

Core Product: Open source web conferencing system
Target Consumer: Higher Ed
Website: https://bigbluebutton.org/

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Biorender Teaching aid

BioRender is  a web-based software tool that enables faculty, scientists and their colleagues to create and share high-quality science figures in minutes. BioRender has developed a database of thousands of scientific icons and templates with “drag-and-drop” functionality that enables scientists to create illustrations in a way that is fast, repeatable, and standardized.

Core Product: Life science icons and templates
Target Consumer: Higher Ed, K-12
Website: https://biorender.com/

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