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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...course, Getting started with SPSS, takes a step-by-step approach to statistics software through seven interactive activities. No statistics software is needed...Handling statistical data is an essential part of psychological research. However, many people find the idea of using statistics, and especially statistical software packages, extremely daunting. This free course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...course, Introducing mammals, offers a starting point for the study of mammals. It will establish their rich diversity, while highlighting the common features that define the group...Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes, and yet all species have some characteristics in common. These similarities justify the inclusion of all such diverse types within...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...course, Exploring Ovid’s big ideas, you will find out why Ovid’s work is still so relevant today. You will meet characters from ancient myth like Actaeon the hunter who was turned into a stag, and Ta’aroa the ancient Pacific Islander god who lived in a shell. And you will discover how ancient stories still give us new ways of thinking about the modern world’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...course. Explore your organisation’s purpose, understand your role within it, and learn how different perspectives can enhance the value you create...This short course encourages you to look across your organisation, at your place within it and the value you create. It considers how getting different perspectives and widening existing ones within your organisation can...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...course, Understanding operations management, will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function, whether producing goods or services or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. In addition, this OpenLearn course discusses the role of operations managers and the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers...Operations management is one of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...course, Creative writing and critical reading, explores the importance of reading as part of a creative writer’s development at the postgraduate level. You will gain inspiration and ideas from examining other writers’ methods, as well as enhancing your critical reading skills. Examples will cover the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...course, An introduction to software development, discusses the engineering nature of software development, its challenges and some fundamental practices which have developed to meet them. Software development is a fast-moving discipline and as a software development professional you must be able to track its leading edge. The course also teaches you some fundamental...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with its lyrics to create...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs