The OCI Marketplace is a hub that lists all courses made available from Dual Code to the broader healthcare community. Learners can browse through the marketplace and enroll in courses that are of interest to them. If an organization deems a course to be mandatory, an administrator can set up a program to include the course(s) in question.
How Does It Work?
Once an organization (e.g. the "provider") lists a course in the marketplace, a learner from another organization (e.g. the "consumer") can self-enroll in the course. By enrolling in the course, the learner is redirected to the course provider's learning environment via a single sign-on (SSO) link. To illustrate this concept, let's assume that the provider is Ontario Health and that the consumer is a nurse at a local hospital.
The nurse would log in her employer's learning environment. Once logged in, the nurse would click on the "Marketplace" link in the menu options to see a list of courses currently available in the marketplace. Should the nurse click on a course offered by Ontario Health, the nurse would then be redirected to Ontario Health's learning environment. If this is the nurse's first time accessing Ontario Health's learning environment, the system will automatically create an account for her, thereby alleviating her burden of having to create a separate account. The nurse can then complete the course in question on Ontario Health's learning environment. Once the course is completed, Ontario Health will issue a learning record and send a copy of the learning record back to the nurse's employer (e.g. the local hospital's learning environment).
