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This document presents an online course information model, highlighting common elements and their descriptions. This document also describes online courses. Its purpose is to support conceptual understanding of online courses and instructional strategies in online education. This model can be used to inform about the design and development of online courses, and to support migration of online courses between different platforms under the premise of copyright transfer.The information model of online courses can be extended based on metadata of learning resource (MLR) rules.