The World Wide Web is a vast information resource. This unit will...
The World Wide Web is a vast information resource. This unit will provide you with the foundation skills to use search engines confidently to locate both information and images on the Web. You will also learn how to critically assess and reference the information you have found for study purposes.
By the end of this unit you should be able to:
The World Wide Web is a vast information resource. This unit will provide you with the foundation skills to use search engines confidently to locate both information and images on the Web. You will also learn how to critically assess and reference the information you have found for study purposes.
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A very useful course about searching on the web. I found the information about search engines to be of particular use. For anyone about to research their ancestry this would be a partcularly good place to start; I have been researching my famiy history for a number of years and found that this course made reference to number of sites I have never come across before.
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