Key Skills for Resource Managers Internet Search and MOOCs Prof Hiran Amarasekera Dept of Forestry and Environment Science University of Sri Jayewardenepura

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academic and scholarly work Google Scholar For many university assignments simple Googling will not be sufficient. You need to use Google Scholar, which exclusively searches academic and scholarly work

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)  MOOCs courses are free and easily accessible online therefore large numbers of students can study high quality courses with prestigious universities.

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Google - Power Searching with Google Join and follow MOOCs offered by Google in 2012: Google - Power Searching with Google course. http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/course/ps/course.html  

Trends in 2014 Credit-granting MOOCs: Universities are starting to grant credit for MOOCs Corporate-developed public MOOCs: companies offer MOOCs to train customers MOOC creation platforms: (EdX and Google MOOC authorship platform) http://mooc.org/ https://www.openlearning.com/