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Scope

Standardization in the field of information technologies for learning, education, and training to support individuals, groups, or organizations, and to enable interoperability and reusability of resources and tool.

Excluded from this scope are:

  • standards or technical reports that define educational standards (competencies), cultural conventions, learning objectives, or specific learning content.
  • work done by other ISO or IEC TCs, SCs, or WGs with respect to their component, specialty, or domain. Instead, when appropriate, normative or informative references to other standards shall be included. Examples include documents on special topics such as multimedia, web content, cultural adaptation, and security.

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Sustainable Development Goals

This committee contributes with 72 standards to the following Sustainable Development Goals:

3
Good Health and Well-being
4
Quality Education
5
Gender Equality
8
Decent Work and Economic Growth
9
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10
Reduced Inequalities
11
Sustainable Cities and Communities
16
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
56

Published ISO standards *

13

ISO standards under development *

22
Participating members
27
Observing members

* number includes updates

Reference Title Type
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/AG 1   Business planning and communications Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/AG 2   Emerging Technologies (AGET) Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/AHG 5   Blockchain in Education Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/AHG 6   Artificial Intelligence for Education (AIEd) Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/TCG   Terminology Coordination Group Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/WG 3   Learner information Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/WG 4   Management and delivery Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/WG 7   ITLET - Culture, language and individual needs Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/WG 8   Learning Analytics Interoperability Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36/WG 9   Online Course Information Model Working group

 

Joint working groups under the responsibility of another committee
Reference Title
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24/JWG 12 Joint ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 24 - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 36 WG : VR/AR/MR based ICT Integration Systems standards
Liaison Committees to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36

The committees below can access the documents of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Document description and processing languages ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 User interfaces ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 43 Brain-computer interfaces ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 37/SC 2 Terminology workflow and language coding ISO
ISO/TC 176 Quality management and quality assurance ISO
ISO/TC 232 Education and learning services ISO

 

Liaison Committees from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 can access the documents of the committees below:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information technology ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data management and interchange ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Document description and processing languages ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41 Internet of things and digital twin ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 37 Language and terminology ISO
ISO/TC 46 Information and documentation ISO
ISO/TC 215 Health informatics ISO
ISO/TC 232 Education and learning services ISO
ISO/TC 260 Human resource management ISO

 

Organizations in liaison (Category A and B)
Acronym Title Category
1EdTech Consortium 1EdTech Consortium A
AUF Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie A
Infoterm International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm) A
LTSC IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee A

Organizations in liaison (Category C)

C liaisons participate at the level of a Working Group

Acronym Title Category
eAA e-Assessment Association C
Date Month Location TC/SC Note
13-21 March 2025 Virtual () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 **
22-28 September 2025 Tianjin (China) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 **
  March 2026 Virtual () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 **
  September 2026 () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 **

* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 - Secretariat

KATS [Korea, Republic of]

Korean Agency for Technology and Standards
93, Isu-ro, Maengdong-myeon
Eumseong-gun 27737 Chungcheongbuk-do
Korea, Republic of

Tel: +82 43 870 5400
Fax: + 82 43 870 5668
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