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If you’d like to take a more structured approach to learning about the Internet, the BBC website has a free online course, called The Webwise Online Course. It is presented in 10 sections and is available in both an animated (Flash) and text-only versions. Each section is followed by an optional quiz. Here’s their description of the course, from the Welcome section:

There are ten units and each one should last a maximum of one hour.

Each unit contains a list of guides, which you should follow in order. Start with the one nearest to the left of the screen. Don’t forget to test what you have learnt by doing the quiz after watching each guide.

All the guides look similar. However, in the guides you will be asked to perform certain tasks by clicking somewhere on the screen. When you are asked to do this you will notice the ‘next’ button is greyed out.

If you click in the wrong place don’t worry! You will see an arrow pointing to the right place to click.

After you finish a guide you should click on the ‘Back to the beginning’ link to return to the unit menu. It is here where you will see the link to the quiz.

Once each unit is finished, click on the ‘Back to the beginning’ link to return to the main course menu. Here you will be able to select the next unit on the course.

Keep going until you have completed the course!

This course is definitely intended for the beginner but it looks very complete. It is also full of Britishisms (”Let’s try and have a go at using a browser”) and quite up to the production quality you’d expect from the BBC.

If you decide to try this course out, please come back and leave a comment with your impressions.

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