European Social Survey Education Net: Research-Like Learning in the Social Sciences

European Social Survey Education Net (ESS EduNet) is an online analysis-training programme that makes it easier and more efficient for lecturers to use ESS data in their teaching. ESS EduNet is a resource that unites different elements of social science in pursuit of a common goal -- the achievement of more penetrating and better-founded analysis of attitudinal survey data than hitherto. The intention is to create an environment for learning that challenges the students on theoretical, methodological, and practical issues simultaneously. Our hope is to improve the students' knowledge of a range of different approaches to social scientific analysis, stimulate independent thinking, and offer them the technical means of investigating empirical data and interpreting results. ESS EduNet is funded by the European Commission as a part of Round Two of the European Social Survey, and developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. ESS EduNet is freely available at: http://essedunet.nsd.uib.no