9th Annual Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Information Computer Science Conference

Date: 26th August - 28th August 2008
Venue: Liverpool Hope University

Call for papers now - deadline for receipt of papers, workshops and posters: Friday 11th April 2008

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 Reaserch 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