Learn to Understand the Internet: The online course introduces you to network technology

Potsdam (ots)

The new free online course from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) promises to help people better understand the technical basics of the Internet. It begins on March 1, lasts six weeks and targets everyone who uses the Network of Networks to watch videos, send emails, do banking or order goods and services every day. The underlying technology should be explained to you in a generally understandable way. Interested parties can enroll in the current free course “The Internet: How the Internet Works (2023 Edition)” on the openHPI learning platform at: https://open.hpi.de/courses/internetworking2023. Prior knowledge is not required.

“The Internet now connects about five billion people all over the world. In Germany, about 94 percent of the population is connected to the Internet. So everyone should be well aware of how the Internet works, which has radically changed our lives and work over the past 54 years,” Says course leader Professor Christophe Menil. He is one of the institute’s directors and heads the Internet Technologies and Systems Division at HPI.

When addressing the target group of the online course, Computer World Potsdam mainly has in mind the needs of people who are currently being trained for a new job, who want to provide services online as creative people and developers or work as IT administrators. “For us, it is not just about explaining the technical principles of the Internet to the participants. We also want to help them learn how to use the Internet safely despite the dangers of cybercrime through appropriate protection measures and what role it plays as the backbone of society and economy today.

In the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), HPI scientist Meinel also wants to outline critical milestones in the development of the Internet to date, which developments have been successful or unsuccessful historically and what the potential development of the Internet is. the future.

According to the institute, participants should plan three to six hours per week for using instructional videos, self-tests, reading materials, handling assignments, graded exams, and discussions with other learners and teachers in the course forum. The course workload corresponds to three credit points from the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). All successful course participants will receive a qualifying text or certificate approximately one week after the end of the course.

Background on the openHPI interactive learning platform

The Hasso Plattner Institute, as a leader among European scientific institutions, launched its interactive online presentations on September 5, 2012 – on the platform https://open.hpi.de. Since then, it has provided free access to current university knowledge from the rapidly changing fields of information technology and innovation. So far, this has been done mainly in German and English. In the fall of 2017, OpenHPI also introduced online translation of a course in eleven world languages ​​for the first time. Almost 1.2 million students are now enrolled in the course on openHPI. Currently, 320,000 good people from 180 countries are part of the regular user group on the platform. It grows every day. To date, the Institute has issued more than 130,000 Certificates of Achievement to particularly successful participants in Mass Open Online Courses, or MOOCs for short. Each annual OpenHPI program includes many offerings for IT beginners and experts. More than 100 courses offered in the past can still be used for self-study – also for free. Students can now also earn credit points recognized at their university for completing OpenHPI courses. If you want to watch video lessons from courses on the go when there is no internet connection (eg on a plane), you can also use the openHPI app for Android mobile devices, iPhones or iPads. Partner platforms that run the same learning technology exist side by side openSAP And open For example too Campus Amnesty InternationalAnd E-government campus And Municipal campus.

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