A free six-week online course on the foundations of the Internet will be offered in English by Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) on its international learning platform at http://www.openhpi.de.
According to HPI, the massive open online course (MOOC)
entitled "Introduction to Internetworking with TCP/IP" is open to
everyone, with free registration here. The institute also shared that it has increased the number of users who can be supported of the
underlying software, added mobile
support for the display of content, and started a forum to foster collaborative learning via a community.
The new changes would get a thorough testing through the free MOOC, while bringing HPI some publicity, a win-win for all.
The course, starting March 31, will cover the foundation of digital data
transfer, the working principles of local networks (LANs) and wide area
networks (WANs), the TCP/IP reference model and Internet protocols (IP),
as well as applications such as e-mail and audio/video communication.
"Anyone who uses the Internet daily to
order goods, read the news, or send e-mails should have the opportunity
to understand the necessary technologies that make all of this
possible," said Institute Director Professor Christoph Meinel.
A
video preview of Meinel's course can viewed here.
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