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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...work for us. The most common computer software that we use for carrying out statistics in the social sciences is the aptly named: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences or SPSS. But while using SPSS may help to cut down the amount of maths and calculations that you have to do by hand, it can sometimes add another layer of complexity to learning statistics. Again,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...work all the way through this course, or just dip in and out. It is a resource for you to use in whatever way you find best helps your learning. As thinking and learning is most effectively developed through active involvement, we have included lots of activities. So, have a pencil and paper on hand and be prepared to think...Extending and developing your thinking skills:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...work very well and can be engineered to do better. This is not a perspective supported in this course nor, more generally, in STiP. STiP practitioners see systems as conceptual constructs or tools to help us understand and act in messy situations of concern. Unlike ‘problems’, which can be defined and solved, messy situations appear to be intractable and appear to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...work through this course, you will become familiar with five complete movements of Mozart's piano sonatas, as well as shorter extracts from some of his other sonatas...This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...work in their profession. Fitness to Practise is a process where people can refer concerns to regulators about people on their register. Regulators aim to maintain public confidence in the profession and contribute to patient safety by ensuring professional standards are upheld (Professional Standards Authority, 2023). Most regulators rely on people and organisations to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...work by kick-starting a sluggish biological clock; in doing so, they’re also shedding new light on the underlying pathology of depression, and on the function of sleep more generally. “Sleep deprivation really has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression,” says Benedetti. If you’re healthy and you don’t sleep, you’ll feel in a bad mood. But...
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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...working in education at any level and any context to engage in teacher inquiry, practitioner research or scholarship. Through structured activities introducing the 4D model of appreciative inquiry, you will use story techniques to identify existing strengths...This free course, An appreciative approach to inquiry, is designed to support groups of practitioners or...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
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...working paper reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of asset mapping and similar approaches: Making sense of assets: Community asset mapping and related approaches for cultivating capacities Traces Project is a multimedia learning project, focusing untold history of arts and culture contributions by people who have sought safety in the UK from conflict and persecution:...
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