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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...Introduction - The aim of this OpenLearn course is to provide a step-by-step introduction to some of the most commonly used statistics in the social sciences, and the computer programme we use to carry out these analyses: SPSS. This tutorial is aimed at students who are both new to statistics, and new to the software package SPSS. For many students statistics represent an...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...Introduction - The profound technological, economic, political and ethical changes brought about by computing and information technology (IT) will affect every one of us. In this course we talk about digital technologies in relation to computing and IT. A fundamental idea is that a digital technology is any technology based on representing data as sequences of numbers....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Why is destroying cultural sites for military purposes a war crime?
History & The Arts

Why is destroying cultural sites for military purposes a war crime?

...Helen Frowe (who directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace), been directing the UK Government funded project, Heritage in War to try to sort out some of these problems. It has been interesting applying our skills in philosophy to a very real-world problem, and these recent events only go to show how important a good dose of philosophy might prove to be....
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Article 10 mins
The German language zone
Languages

The German language zone

...projects for Alexanderplatz, one of the major squares in former East Berlin. Download the Spaces:2 tasks and ideas pdf Cultures:1 Die Gärten der Welt im Erholungspark Marzahn For information about parks and outdoor activities in and around Berlin, there's the website www.berlins-gruene-seiten.de. We've selected a web page which focuses on the botanical garden...
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Activity 5 mins
Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...projects, which in her later career were based at the Institute for Sustainable Development, where she was a director. In her 50 years of dedicated service to Ethiopia and Eritrea, she had made massive contribution to botany, from field collection of herbaria to editing the 8 volume, 9000 species rich Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea, a work which took 29 years. But it was...
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Article 15 hrs 45 mins
Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...project entitled Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th-17th centuries), at The Open University, department of Art History (lead investigator: Angeliki Lymberopoulou). The outcome of this research will appear in a two-volume publication by Cambridge University Press: Hell in the Byzantine World: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and...
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Article 10 mins
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...managers and learners working alongside others and how they might develop their own capacity in this regard. The course will look towards practical approaches which place relationships at the heart of the leadership process, encouraging all of us to be confident, successful, responsible and effective within the learning situation, not only for ourselves but as advocates...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Introduction - The Earth’s climate, although varying over millions of years, has been ‘just right’ to allow the development of life, first in the oceans and then on land. A key factor has been the natural greenhouse effect, which has warmed the planet and allowed the bulk of the world’s oceans to remain ice-free. This course describes the basic science of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs