OSHKI recognizes that many First Nation communities are accessible by air only. We are aware that this renders it extremely difficult for learners who must travel away from their home communities in order to attend programming and courses. No First Nations community in the province can boast a college or post-secondary institute that provides course offerings like those administered by high schools in mainstream Ontario towns and cities.

As a result of this situation, people willing and ready to advance their learning are left with only the prospect of leaving home, and thereby rupturing their deep bond with family, community, and land which entails that their Aboriginal values and identity have the potential of becoming displaced. OSHKI is aware that this disruption to social and family life needs to be minimized through altered delivery of post-secondary studies. We attempt to bring education to the communities through our unique delivery model.

At OSHKI, students are afforded the opportunity to attend to post-secondary programming while at the same time maintaining their job, family and community lives. On-campus sessions are blended with e-Learning and other methods of distance delivery in order that students reach academic goals with minimal disruption of family and community responsibilities.