Multimedia Based IT Training for the Humanities Hull University Brian Powell This project is targeted at academic staff within the Humanities community. The objectives of the project are to develop, over three years, training materials with a Humanities bias directed towards the following areas: * basic IT awareness; * the use of authoring and presentation software; * the exploitation of multimedia resources. Our aim is to enable academics to use IT more productively both in their teaching and in their research. While the Humanities, in the broadest sense, constitute our target group, and within it, there is a strong demand for appropriate training, our products are intended to be of potential value to all academics who want to develop their IT skills. Our products will be self-access information packs and computer-based reference materials. They will relate to and run on widely available hardware platforms, and will use, as appropriate, easily accessible software. The intention is to ensure maximum use by as many people as possible. The project involves collaboration on development and evaluation between the Computer Centre and three Schools - of Arts, European Languages, and Humanities - at the University of Hull. It is located adjacent to the CTI Centre for Modern Languages and the TLTP Modern Languages Project. This will ensure cooperation at ground level between these educational technology initiatives, and the resultant synergy will be of benefit to the academic community as a whole. _______________________________________________________________________ | | | In general the copyright for material on the NISS Bulletin Board | | is held by the CHEST & NISS Centre (University of Bath) or by the | | authors. | | | | Copying or reproduction of the material is permitted provided that | | | | (a) the source is acknowledged | | and (b) the material is not used for commercial gain. | | | | However, material must not be made available outside the academic | | community without prior consent. | |_______________________________________________________________________|