ABOUT The CTI Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History

Please note that the CTI Centres have been discontinued, and contact details are no longer up-to-date.

The role of CTICH has been integrated into the new LTSN Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology. For contact details, please refer to http://hca.ltsn.ac.uk/contact.htm or mail s.cameron@arts.gla.ac.uk with queries regarding ICT.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Supporting Teaching
• Publications
• Services
• Centre Staff
• Contact Information
• Join the CTICH Mailing List

Our Mission

Based at the University of Glasgow, CTICH covers several subjects concerning men and women living in the past, including history, economic and social history, archaeology, and the history of art. CTICH is one of 24 United Kingdom subject-based centres working to encourage better use of computers to improve the quality of Higher Education.

Introduction

The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History (CTICH) encourages and supports the use of computers to improve the teaching of these subjects at all UK universities and other institutions of higher education. CTICH publications and services are available to academics in UK higher education.

CTICH staff are subject specialists with experience in teaching and research, as well as of the application of computers to these subjects. The Centre stresses the use of computers to teach history, archaeology and the history of art, rather than computing itself.

Based at the University of Glasgow, CTICH is one of 24 subject-based resources centres which were established in 1989. The Computers in Teaching Initiative is funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales and by the Department of Education for Northern Ireland.

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SUPPORTING TEACHING

CTICH seeks to help academics

• become aware of the potential of computers to enhance their teaching;
• locate information about software and datasets which would be appropriate to their courses;
• design courses, modules and exercises which integrate computer-based materials into subject-based teaching in ways which fulfil their own educational objectives; and
• receive the training they need to use these materials effectively.

CTICH serves as a resource centre for UK academics, collecting examples of best practice and encouraging the exchange of appropriate software, datasets and teaching materials and methods. The Centre supports links between teaching and research; computer-based research projects have developed many datasets, software tools and methods which can help teaching.

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PUBLICATIONS

CTICH disseminates information about best practice in computer-assisted teaching through a variety of publications:

• The Craft newsletter publishes reports of projects, software and resources, descriptions of courses using computers and evaluations of software. Readers are encouraged to contribute descriptions of their own courses and to evaluate software.

• A Handlist of Electronic Teaching Resources for Teachers of History, Archaeology & Art History lists software, teaching packages, CD-ROMS,  World Wide Web sites and other resources appropriate to teaching and research in history, archaeology and art history, and provides descriptions and comments on their usefulness to teachers in higher education.  (This replaces the Centre's earlier A Guide to Software for Historians).

• Three electronic discussion lists are accessible via electronic mail. History-News distributes announcements as soon as we receive them. History- Methods and History-Teaching provide fora for academics wishing to draw on the experiences of their colleagues.  A full list of Brtish discussion lists can be found at the Mailbase Web site.     To subscribe to a discussion list send a one- line message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk:
  join listname your name:
  (e.g. join history-news John Wilkes).

• CTI Primers: short documents for starting up in areas of computer-based teaching.

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SERVICES

Other services available to academics within UK higher education include:

• Advice on software, data and teaching and research methods.
• A library of teaching software which can be consulted at Centre offices in Glasgow. Personal visitors are welcome; if you wish to visit, please contact the Centre to make an appointment.
• Workshops on potential uses of computers. CTICH staff may also be able to visit departments to give a seminar on applications for computers.
• Distribution of a selection of software, datasets and books.

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CENTRE STAFF

Contact Information

Contact the Centre at:

Telephone

+(0)141 330 4942

FAX

+(0)141 330 5518

Postal address

CTI Centre for History, Archaeology & Art History

1 University Gardens

University of Glasgow

Glasgow G12 8QQ

United Kingdom

Electronic mail

[hca@gla.ac.uk

 

Join the CTICH Mailing List

Membership of the CTICH mailing list is open to all interested individuals employed within UK Higher Education. UKHE members receive copies of Craft free. Those on the mailing list may also receive occasional mailings concerning the Centre's activities and are also eligible for other free materials as they become available.

Interested scholars, educators, developers, and enthusiasts outwith UK Higher Education may also join the mailing list by subscribing to Craft.

Craft Subscription Rates (current as of May, 1999)

UK Higher Education	free
Personal Subscription UK Addresses	£10 per year OR £5 per issue
Personal Subscription Overseas Addresses	£20 per year OR $35US per year
Corporate or Institutional Subscriptions	£20 per year OR $35US per year
Payment should be made in pounds sterling or US dollars. Cheques should be made out to "University of Glasgow"

For further information please contact the Centre.

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Last modified: September 19, 2000