Marketplace

The OCI Marketplace is a hub that lists courses made available from Dual Code clients / partners to the broader healthcare community. Learners can search for 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 mandatory 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 "Search for courses" in the "OCI Tools" section of the navigation block 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 them, thereby alleviating their 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). This is done automatically and as a consumer, you do not need to do anything to receive this learning record.

What Information Is Shared Between the Consumer and the Provider?

When an account is created automatically on the "provider" system, the "consumer" system passes the person's username, first name and last name. It also specifies where (e.g. which consumer) the user comes from. No other personal information is sent to the provider. If the provider requires additional information (e.g. the area in which your practice or your professional designation), it will ask you via a web form and you will be free to answer it. 

When the learning record is passed back from the provider to the consumer, we pass all relevant information, including but not limited to the name of the course, the grade, the date the user completed the course, and the date the learning record expires (if applicable).

What Do Learners See on their System?

Learners on the consumer site (e.g. their system) see all courses available in the marketplace. They will see the name and logo of the organization offering the course, a course title, and a course description.