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76 ORGANIZACIJA ZNANJA 2016, LETN. 21, ZV. 2 Figure 20: Online course attendance by years With regard to gender, the participant structure is similar in the individual online course. All online courses were attended by 76% of women and 24% of men (Figure 21). Figure 21: Participant structure by gender between 2005 and 2015 The educational background of the online course participants is very different; participants with a university degree prevail, followed by participants with a high school diploma and participants with a professional higher education degree. We can deduct that this result reflects the greater interest and applicability for online courses for the use of foreign databases and services in students, researchers, university staff, etc. who require these skills for their work and further education. Figure 22: Educational background of online course participants between 2005 and 2015 Most online course participants are employed (42%) or students (22%), while a large percentage of participants (26%) did not provide this information (Figure 23). Figure 23: Course participant employment status 3. CONCLUSION The modern learning society requires individuals that will permanently learn, improve and train in all areas of life. Only by doing so will they be able to stay up-to-date with quickly evolving technologies and achieve information literacy at a degree, required for successful and high quality performance in education, work organisations or everyday private life. IZUM as a bibliographic and information service for Slovenian science, culture and education offers online training for a wide population as part of their offer of training programmes, in addition to COBISS software courses. Within an 11-year time period, 408 online courses were carried out with over 2300 participants from different age groups and with different educational backgrounds. It is interesting to observe that three quarters of all participants were women. Out of everyone who signed up for our online courses, 82% actively participated; attendance certificates were issued to over half of the participants (56%). Through the online courses that we create and organise we strive to reach the goals of lifelong and multidimensional learning, to promote and improve information literacy of a wide range of individuals, and, at the same time, actively take part in the promotion of lifelong learning. For the fifth time in a row, IZUM actively participates in the Slovenian project Teden vseživljenjskega učenja (Lifelong Learning Week) – TVU 2016 with its range of online course. Literature COBISS.SI : Kooperativni online bibliografski sistem in servisi , 1997– 2016. [online] Available at: http://www.cobiss.si/ [13. 5. 2016]. IZUM, 2013. Spletno učenje: COBISS/OPAC Online javno dostopni katalogi . [online course] Available at: http://etecaji.izum.si/ (Access with username and password) [12. 5. 2016]. Rahanu, H., Georgiadou, E., Khan, N., Colson, R. Hill, V. and Adam, E., 2015. The Development of Student Learning and Information Literacy: Case Study. In: Knežević, R. i Findrik, N. eds. Zbornik radova XII Međunarodne naučne konferencije "Informacijska pismenost na zapadnom Balkanu", Juni na Uni, 18 – 20. juni 2015 godine. Bihać: Kantonalna i univerzitetska biblioteka Bihać. pp. 25–35. SICRIS , s. a. [online] Available at: http://www.sicris.si/ [13. 5. 2016]. Aleksandra Rubelj, Janita Tacer Slana, Pero Šobot: ONLINE LEARNING...