SOCRATES/ERASMUS Thematic Network Project on Advanced Computing in the Humanities Financial agreement nr. D26030-CP-1-99-1-NO-ERASMUS-ETN Coordinating institution: Universitetet i Bergen (Norway)

Workplan of year 4: dissemination extension

Tasks

TS&HC working group

1. Knowledge base. The paper publications (conference proceedings and book), together with other information collected in the life of the project, will be merged and transformed into a knowledge base, which will function as a permanent source of reference, accessible via an Internet resource using tools on the web. It will contain links to analyses, proposals and recommendations, computational resources, examples of on-line teaching and learning materials, and a database of organizations, institutions and course curricula. It is hoped that the result will become an established and recognized repository of information on the use of IT in humanities courses. Target troups will be teaching staff and educational planners.
2. Guidelines on best practice. The working group on Textual Scholarship and Humanities Computing will, in cooperation with the ALLC and on the basis of existing results, compile a set of guidelines, based on best practice, targeted at teaching staff. The guidelines will be directed at (a) planning and developing courses that exploit computing, (b) using digital resources as a key teaching resource, and (c) methods for teaching and assessing such courses.
3. Plan for training and retraining programme. The working group on Textual Scholarship and Humanities Computing will, in cooperation with the ALLC and on the basis of existing results, produce a plan for a training and retraining programme, also aimed at teaching staff, especially staff not yet integrating computing techniques in their teaching activities. New EU member states and Eastern European Countries joining SOCRATES are particular targets.
4. Student awareness. All working groups will make a plan for an information spreading and awareness raising program, targeted at students and prospective students.  The objective is better information about the possibilities for studying humanities computing to young people considering either studies in humanities or in computing. This is an exploitation action based on selected results.
5. Continuity. The maintenance of parts of the website will be secured in cooperation with the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and Oxford University. The outcome of this exploitation action will be a policy document for permanent integration of education-related activities into the activities of the Association.