An Introduction to ICT: A MOOC

Information and Communication Technology is one of the most developed challenging area in the world. Information and communications technology (ICT) is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

Through this course, we'll learn about information and communication technology area focusing in computer, data communication and computer network. Moreover, the schema of those three sub-areas are illustrated below.

A schema of ICT Course

Although this course is intended for student of Metrology and Instrumentation, Dept. of Eng. Physics - ITS, this course is available for all student because we encourage to bring MOOC as our platform of learning. A webblog in Wordpress is made to bring this course online. This course will be given in Indonesian language.

Some textbooks and other online courses are recommended including the following list but not limited to:

• Computer Architecture, an online course from Princeton University via Coursera
• Computer Science 101 from Stanford University
• Computer Network from University of Washington Via Coursera

And here is a sample of the introductory course slide,


You can grab all material in this course via Google Drive in this link. Please feel free to share it. For the updated version, I stored in this Github repo.

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