Access to the HEA Subject
Centre for Information and 
Computer Sciences		 The HEA Centre for Information and Computer Sciences is part of the wider Higher Education Academy. This link takes you to their home page.
Go to the HEA-ICS home page Go to HEA-ICS Events Go to HEA-ICS Resources Go to HEA-ICS Publications Go to HEA-ICS Projects Go to the Departmen't resources
The nationally funded Higher Education Academy (HEA) exists to support lecturers in Universities. Apart from a generic centre, there are 24 subject centres and the one most appropriate for this department is that which covers Information and Computer Sciences (HEA-ICS). In addition, the Technologies Centre provides a service to the teaching community in Higher and Further Education by acting as a broker for information on the use of technology to support learning and teaching.

If you adopt or adapt any of the resources, or if you find information that you need via the HEA-ICS web-site, it would be nice if you could let Ian Benest know. HEA-ICS will continue its existence if its evaluation demonstrates that it is usefully serving its community. Such evaluation is proving difficult to formulate. If there is something you need, why not email the HEA-ICS.

If you want to be on the departmental mailing list for HEA-ICS activities then email Ian Benest (idb). An HEA-ICS noticeboard is maintained in the Common Room on the first floor. There are also specialist email lists covering: formal methods, hci, image processing, multimedia, programing, java, metadata, ethics, problem-based learning, computer-aided assessment and project management.

And don't forget our own Tutorial Handbook. For exchange of ideas and sharing good practice across the University, visit the Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning web site. Visit the Staff Development Office for your own personal development. An IEEE Guide for Instructional Design and Development helps determine the best teaching methods for specific learners in a specific context. Thinking of updating the set text for your module, then have a look at the book reviews for ideas. The Intute Web site provides search facilities to on-line resources in engineering, mathematics and computing, while E3AN is a web site from which you can gain access to electrical and electronic engineering questions.
Our Tutorial Handbook Forum for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching Professional and Organisational Development

Application Software Take-away software for students IEEE Instructional Design and Development

Book Reviews On-line search for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Question database for electrical and electronic engineering

Advice on first year tutorials Methods of assessment Italics on-line journal

IEE Guide for Authors Advice on Ethics in Projects

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