Searching online to learn English - Badge
Name
Searching online to learn English.
Issuer
University of Parma.
Issued since 20 May 2016.
Description
This Badge is earned by learners participating in the course "Searching online to learn English" offered by EduOpen. The Badge is by all means the course’s certificate of attendance.
Badge Criteria
This Badge has been obtained by taking part in Orientenglish - Searching online to learn English, within the MOOC "Learning to learn English (Orientenglish)" that aims to provide useful ideas to learn to learn the English language more effectively and to refine the useful techniques for the study of a foreign language. The path collects opinions and experiences from experts working throughout Italy. This course is intended for University of Parma (or other Universities) first year undergraduates, as well as for Italian High School students who intend to enrol at the University. The course is also open to all other University graduates who wish to deepen their knowledge in English language and develop language learning strategies. Teacher: Marina UsbertiWithin the course Orientenglish - Searching online to learn English there have been reflections and practice on how to search the Net for useful resources to improve one's leaning skills, and how to evaluate such resources according to their quality and usefulness. The Badge was obtained after taking part and having fulfilled the following conditions: having worked as interim activities identified as required for each section that makes up the course; having played the final compulsory test corresponding to each section.
Skills
The owner of this Badge participated in and successfully completed the course Orientenglish - Searching online to learn English demonstrating acquisition of the following SKILLS: applying to practical cases of searching for resources useful for the study of English a unified and critical method of approaching to research, always focussed on their specific information needs; choosing the web query tools appropriate to one's needs considering when and for what research using search engines, portals and disciplinary social bookmarking sites; understanding and using the basics of Google logical language using Boolean operators and advanced filtering techniques suited to the recovery of useful materials to the study of a language; evaluating network resources through a comprehensive critical reflection extended by one's needs to the very nature of the information and the means used to obtain them.
Tags
EnglishLanguage, SocialScience, Internetresearch