ALISON ABC-IT course.
ALISON logo.
Hackney Silver Surfers management group for online learning.
ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online) was our Website of the Week 7 March 2009. Several people have mentioned their interest in these free online courses, so we have picked out what seems to be the most appropriate ALISON course to kick off our online support program.
‘ABC IT’ is a free online course which we think is suitable for older people who have already mastered basic computer skills, and now wish to take their learning to a higher level by working independently at home, or anywhere else they have access to the Internet. It seems to be particularly suitable for people who are still in the job market – either working now, or hoping to get back to work soon.
The ALISON home page URL is http://alison.com and the URL for the ABC-IT course is http://alison.com/full/resource/view.php?id=528 . Read that page carefully, including the sections ‘What is it?’ and ‘Who is it for?’
You don’t need us to do ABC-IT — but if you want to try it, we think we can help you. So we have created an ALISON management group for that course. If you join our management group, we can assist you right through to the end.
The name of this management group is ‘Hackney Silver Surfers’ and the ‘enrolment key’ is hackney123 . Note that …
- The management group is for our benefit as well as yours. It will help us track your progress, and analyse our own effectiveness.
- Anybody may join this group. It is not exclusive.
It is important to understand that Hackney Silver Surfers and Age Concern Hackney have no formal relationship with ALISON. If you register as an ALISON user, you will become an ALISON learner. Our role will be to support people who join our management group.
Most ABC-IT online learners will work independently, perhaps at The Lawns (which has all the software you need). We will not offer classes of our own, though we hope to run occasional workshops if there is enough interest.
If you are interested in taking this further, your next step would be to read our online document HSS and ALISON Basic Computing.pdf , which contains the ABC-IT course outline and an explanation of how to register using our enrolment key.
By the way — ABC-IT is not suitable for absolute beginners! You should first become confident with using email and web browsers. As a guide to the minimum level required, you should be able to use email on your own (eg: at home) without help from anyone else.
