The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Use the search bar to discover materials or browse through the collections. The filters will help you identify your area of interest.
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The new social learning blog | A new generation of tools for meeting and networking online | There is a new generation of tools that enriches the toolset of online facilitators. |
University of Helsinki | Applied Language Technology | These learning materials consist of a two-course module that seeks to provide humanities majors with a basic understanding of language technology and the practical skills needed to apply language t |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Building skills in quantitative methods and statistical software | A collection of quantitative methods e-books and accompanying quizzes for direct use in teaching students or for self-study. |
edX | Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change | Learn principles and strategies for engaging with global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Cross sectional and longitudinal survey data | This is an introductory guide to the main types of data with a time element. The guide is a brief overview of key elements in need of consideration when using these types of data. |
ICPSR Teaching & Learning | Data-Driven Learning Guides | These standardized exercises introduce (or reinforce) key concepts in the social sciences by guiding students through a series of questions and related data analyses. |
Research Data Mantra | Data handling tutorials | Practical tutorials to manage and handle research data for particular software packages: SPSS, R, ArcGIS and N-Vivo. Tutorials contain many practical exercises. |
ICPSR Teaching & Learning | "Exercise Modules: Exploring Data Through Research Literature Investigating Community and Social Capital Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election (SETUPS) Exercises at the Social Science Research & Instructional Center, using the 2014 General Social Survey" | These resources are made up of sequenced activities. |
edX | Human Rights: The Rights of Refugees | This short course will enable you to find the answers and empower yourself to defend and promote the rights of refugees and discover how you can be part of the solution. |
Harvard University: online courses | Managing Evidence: A CAEL Module | In this era of evidence-driven reform, school leaders must learn to harness an array of data to drive improvement. In this module, you will explore key concepts in performance measurement, research |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Mapping Census Data in QGIS | This guide will cover how to map census data in QGIS. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Mapping Census Microdata using R | This guide aims to show the strength of using Census Microdata for a variety of research purposes, via a worked example taken from real-life research. |
ESS EduNet | Measurement errors | A simple procedure to correct for measurement errors in survey research. |
Digital Preservation Coalition | Online Digital Preservation Training | Part of The National Archives’ new digital capacity building strategy, ‘Plugged In, Powered Up,’ the Novice to Know-How learning pathway aims to provide beginner |
OpenScience MOOC | Open Research Data | Open research data refers to the publishing the data underpinning scientific research results so that they have no restrictions on their access. |
OpenScience MOOC | Open Research Software and Open Source | Software and technology underpin modern science. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Quantitative methods e-books | These quantitative methods e-books and accompanying quizzes are for direct use in teaching students or for self-study. |
edX | Scratch: Programming for Teachers | In this course you will learn the basics of programming and how to teach it yourself as a primary or secondary school teacher. |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | Synergy Train the Trainer Programme | Massive open online courses platform. This service is based on the worldwide most popular Moodle platform. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching ideas: Guides for teaching data analysis | This resource is a collection of short guides designed to make lesson planning more efficient for those teaching data analysis skills. |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Train-the-Trainers package | This Train-the-Trainers (TTT) package forms an addition to the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide which was developed by the CESSDA Training Working Group in 2017 and 2018. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Using survey data | This guide aims to help researchers utilise extensive survey data available. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | What is complex sample design? | This guide covers the basics of sampling as well as other related topics such as clustering, stratification and weighting. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | What is weighting? | This guide explains the main reasons for using weights, how weights work and how to use weighting variables in statistical analysis. |
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Copyright Guide at the University of Sussex | Copyright gives legal protection to the creators of certain kinds of work so that they can control the way they may be exploited. |
University of Sussex |
Danish e-Infrastructure Coorporation (DeiC) | DeiC coordinates the Danish digital infrastructure as an umbrella for the eight Danish universities to ensure delivery of computing, storage and network infrastr |
Danish National Forum for Data Management |
DCAF | Geneva Center for Security Center Governance (DCAF) is dedicated to making states and people safer, within a framework of democratic governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights. Since |
Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance |
DelftX - Free online courses from Delft University of Technology | Free online courses from Delft University of Technology on edX |
Delft University of Technology |
Digital Preservation Coalition | As it plays a key role for the DPC to empower and develop their members’ workforces, this page provides access to different training resources that aim to provid |
Digital Preservation Coalition |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | EOSC-Synergy training platform is set of tools for the creation and conduction EOSC related training courses. |
EOSC-synergy |
ESS EduNet | ESS EduNet is a training resource mainly developed for use in higher education. |
ESS ERIC |
Harvard University: online courses | About 200 online courses dedicated to various disciplines including humanities and social sciences. |
Harvard University |
OpenAIRE Training and Support | OpenAIRE wants to shift scholarly communication towards openness and transparency and facilitate innovative ways to communicate and monitor research. |
OpenAIRE |
OpenScience MOOC | Research is getting a global makeover, in part thanks to the power of the internet and the tools it provides for us, and in part due to a growing call for accountability (e.g., reproducibility and |
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PARTHENOS Project | PARTHENOS stands for “Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies”. |
CLARIN ERIC, DARIAH ERIC, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, King’s College London, Academy of Athens, Trinity College Dublin |
RDA Trainings & Webinars | RDA offers a series of training webinars, face-to-face workshops, hackathons/datathons partly organized as “summer schools” and special meetings on request. |
Research Data Alliance |
SERISS Project | Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS) is a four-year project that aims to strengthen and harmonise social science research across Europe. |
SERISS |
The new social learning blog | In The new social learning blog, suggestions for online training and toolkits and for designing online or blended learning are made. |
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UK Copyright Literacy | Decoding copyright and bringing you enlightenment - a blog from Chris Morrison and Jane Secker. |
UK Copyright Literacy |
UK Data Service: Data Skills | This source includes interactive modules designed for users who want to get to grips with key aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data as well as tools that can be used to assess and impr |
UK Data Service |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | This source includes a series of resources in the form of guides and e-books dedicated to trainers and students interested in sample design, weighting, changes over time using cross sectional and l |
UK Data Service |