All the requirements in this document are intended to be applicable to any provider, regardless of its type, size or the healthcare services it offers.

— personal circumstances and academic background,

— previous work experiences, knowledge and skills,

— short, medium and long-term ambitions,

— changing education and training requirements resulting from continual industry evolution,

— current and future job opportunities,

— impact of technology, and

— shifting personal interests, attitudes, abilities and goals.

This document helps identify potential jobs within the maritime industry, on board and ashore, in order to provide alternative career paths.

This document provides a generic information model of OLF to describe relevant information that applies to the facilitation and training services provided online, and includes information about the person offering facilitation, the affiliation of the person, facilitation ability, facilitation practices, the facilitation service offered, learners’ reviews and testimonies, and related social network information. The conceptual data model allows the linguistic diversity of OLF information attributes and offers a flexible metadata schema to describe them.

NOTE 1    Although this document provides suggestions on how to designate metadata elements that require privacy protection, it does not provide detailed methods or techniques for how to implement privacy protection measures.

NOTE 2    For metadata with privacy, the application profile in ISO/IEC 19788-1 can be used to tag data elements concerning privacy and define them with conditions. OLF information privacy protection methods and techniques, such as privacy-by-design, can be selected and applied as needed by implementers.

This document is intended to provide a reference for standards users and developers, as well as to facilitate communication and common understanding of the terms within the field of education and learning services and the scope of ISO/TC 232.

It is applicable to any distance learning services that are addressed to learners themselves as well as to sponsors who are acquiring the services on behalf of the learners.

In cases where the distance learning services are provided by an organization that delivers other methods of learning services, this document only applies to distance learning services.