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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...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 area that they are concerned about, either because they have had little experience of statistics before, or due to concerns over the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...social and economic ideas. Most of these derived from Enlightenment notions and, he thought, could eliminate poverty and crime, contributing to social and moral betterment. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Arts and Humanities...Robert Owen and New Lanark: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...social, economic, political and cultural backgrounds these are also examined...This free course, Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century, examines the role that Scots played in contributing to the developments in healthcare during the nineteenth century. The radical transformation of medicine in Europe included the admission of women as doctors...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...social and cultural developments in Britain, with special regard for British reaction to the French Revolution...William Wilberforce, the politician and religious writer, was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in Britain. This free course explores Wilberforce's career and writings and assesses their historical significance. In particular, it examines the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...social relations (Harvey, 2010). One of the most influential political economists in the mid twentieth century, Joseph Schumpeter, recognised innovation as a fundamental feature of the ‘creative-destructive’ tendencies of capitalism. Approaching this issue from a different ideological perspective in the 19th century, Karl Marx also recognised the importance of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...social action as change strategies to promote community well-being. Within a UK context, the practice of community empowerment is arguably most developed in Scotland. Scotland’s 2015 Community Empowerment Act outlines a number of key rights which local communities can claim: [Described image] Source: (Development Trusts NI, no date.) Figure 2 Community Empowerment Act...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A woman's place is in the Union - a film by the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

A woman's place is in the Union - a film by the EIS

...Social Sciences and History courses [EIS banner. purple background, with EIS in white, edged in red]Founded in 1847, the EIS is the oldest teaching union in the world. As the largest teaching union in Scotland, the EIS represents more than 60,000 members across all sectors of Education. While going through the archives and past editions of the Scottish Educational Journal...
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Video 5 mins
Secret or sharing? Play our Privacy Game
Digital & Computing

Secret or sharing? Play our Privacy Game

...and why. For example, you may decide to trade some information for gifts when shopping on a website; or you may decide to keep other information secret when posting on a social networking site. There are two ways to play... [Challenge your friends on Facebook] [One player game on OpenLearn] Challenge your friends on Facebook or play against the computer here on OpenLearn....
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Activity 5 mins