General
This course is the third of the eight courses in the collection Computing for School - Communication and Networks. This course is is for anyone who wants to know more about the Internet, what it can do and how we connect to it. It introduces terms such as LAN, WAN, WiFi, 3/4G. It also gets you to think about how you should behave online.
The WWW is just one service provided by the Internet! Investigate the other services that are available, identify the various types of different networks that are available for accessing them. Internet safety is discussed, with an emphasis on becoming a responsible digital citizen, aware of acceptable and unacceptable online behaviour.
Schools interested in using these materials as part of the National Curricula are free to do so. Additional teaching resources to support the delivery, manage classes and run quizzes are available for free to schools by registering to become a Cisco Academy. http://cs.co/ComputingForSchoolsCourse
This course is free and gives you the opportunity to earn a digital badge as a recognition of your learning. To access the course materials, pass the quizzes and collect the badge, you’ll need to enrol. If you already have an Open University account, you need to sign in before you enrol. Otherwise, it’s easy to create one.
Once you’ve signed in, return to this page and refresh it by clicking on the refresh button in your web browser – this usually looks like a recycling icon that features one arrow in a circle pointing to its tail, or two arrows in a circle pointing to each other. This will update your status so you can enrol by clicking on the ‘Enrol’ button. You are now enrolled and ready to start the course!
To see the other courses in this series, please visit the Computing for School's collection page.
Please send us corrections or comments about this course to ciscocourse@computingatschool.org.uk.
