Acknowledgements
This free course was written by the following Open University academic team: James Roy (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, WELS), Carolyn Cooke (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS), Claire Saunders (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS), Helen Lee (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS), and Lynda Griffin (Associate Lecturer, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, WELS and School of Arts and Humanities, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, FASS), in the Open University, UK. The cross-Faculty team who produced the course also included the following critical readers: Carol Edwards, (Student Experience Manager, Law, The OU Law School, Faculty of Business and Law); Fiona MacKinnon (Staff Tutor, Nursing, School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, WELS); Gavin Williams (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); Roisin McPhilemy (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); Sue Creed (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); and Deborah Marinetto (Associate Lecturer, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS and Open Programme). It was first published in August 2020.
Introduction
Images
Course Image: PureSolution; Shutterstock.com
Week 2
Images
Section 2: Burst; Pexels
Figure 2: Poznyakov; Shutterstock.com
Figures 4(a) and (b): Carolyn Cooke
Section 4.1: bongkarn thanyakij; Pexels
Figure 5: Lori Glaholm Heron; Pexels
Week 3
Images
Section 1: expresswriters;Pixabay
Section 2, second image: jamesoladujoye; Pixabay
Section 3, second image: vloveland; Pixabay
Section 4: Activity 3, Personal: (a) ClarissaBell; Pixabay; (b) Keith Johnston; Pixabay; (c) Ben Kerckx; Pixabay
Section 4, Activity 3, ProfessionalPashminu Mansukhani; Pixabay
Section 4, Activity 3, Study:StockSnap;Pixabay
Section 6: Alda2; Pixabay
Week 4
Section 1: ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE DI MORTARA: taken from: http://www.ddmortara.it/wordpress/docenti/tutorial/netiquette/
Section 2.1: suphakit73; Shutterstock.com
Section 5, first image: fizkes; Getty Images
Section 5, second image, Activity 7: olaser; Getty Images
Audio/Video
Video 1: Discussion Board Netiquette; byuicurdev; taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdqQjCfWSc
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