Welcome

The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Science's 2008 Annual Conference will take place from Tuesday 26th to Thursday 28th August 2008, at the Liverpool Hope University.

Key Topics:

The key topics for the 2008 Conference are:

Supporting New Academic Staff
Emerging Technologies
Evaluating Learning and Teaching
Pedagogic Innovation
Groupwork and Collaborative Learning
Improving Assessment and Student Feedback
Managing Change
First Year Experience
Enhancing Employer Engagement
Internationalisation
Outreach and Widening Participation
Responding to National Policy
Computer Ethics and Social Responsibility
Teaching and Research Nexus

The ICS Subject Centre would like to offer an Information & Library Studies / Science (ILS) strand at this years conference and, alongside the general call for papers, we would like to encourage contributions from the ILS communities on a number of related topics. Submissions for papers, workshops and posters are welcomed.

These topics are:

Integrating Research Methods into the curriculum
Teaching of Knowledge Management
Groupwork and collaborative learning in ILS
Computer aided assessment for ILS
The student placement experience

Conference Committee:

Conference Chair:
Gerry McAllister
Organising Committee:
Hazel White
Local Organisation Chairs:
Robina Hetherington

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If you have any queries please contact the conference team by email (heacademy-ics@ulster.ac.uk) or by phone on (028) 90368020.