Editorial

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Welcome to the electronic first edition of Habitat, the CTI Centre for the Built Environment (CTICBE) newsletter. We hope that you will find it both interesting and useful. As a recently established Centre we form one of a group of twenty-three other CTI Centres based at various universities throughout the country, each servicing the needs of a specific subject area. Our role is to promote and disseminate information on the use of computers within the Architectural, Planning, Property Management and Building Construction higher education communities. In order to assist academic staff in developing their knowledge and skills and to raise the awareness of the role of compute rs in teaching, the Centre will be conducting a series of workshops and departmental visits throughout the year. If you would like the Centre to visit your institution, or if there is a particular topic area on which you think you would benefit from a wor kshop, then please contact us at the address opposite. This newsletter forms the first of three publications produced each year in which we will be keeping you informed of new products, resources, Internet news, conference details as well as news about us and our programme of events and activities. We will o nly know if we are being successful in addressing your requirements if we receive comments from you either on content or presentation of our literature. We would also like to invite you to submit articles for inclusion in future issues (send E-mail to CTICBE@cf.ac.uk). These may be descriptions of courses that have been taught using computers or perhaps views on conferences attended. Reviews of books and software are particularly sought. If you feel that you would like to contribute then we would be happy to hear from you. Throughout the course of our publications, we hope to overcome any misconceptions that it is only the technical wizards amongst us who can utilise computers in the learning process to best effect. As most university teaching staff now find themselves wit h less time and more students, the time is ripe to reconsider teaching strategy effectiveness and how it can be improved. We know that this can be difficult when learning curves for teaching staff these days can be more like learning cliffs with overhang s, unnerving to even the boldest academic without information, advice and training. This is where we aim to be of help to you. During the three months that we have been operational, the Centre has begun looking at the major software developments for tea ching and will be keeping you informed on how CAL may be best utilised to suit your requirements.

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