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Computing and Computer Games Technology: Skills and Training

This guide brings together key resources to help you find information relating to Computing, Business Information Technology and Computer Games Technology courses.

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In addition to your course, the Library offers online resources, courses and workshops to help you develop your information literacy.

Effective Information Searching

For postgraduates, searching skills is introduced in your Research Methods and Project Management module. Take a look at Gheyas and Abdullah (2016) or Kargar et al. (2024) as example systematic literature reviews.

For undergraduates, searching skills is included in one of your first year modules. The literature review process is applied in your final year module CMP6200/DIG6200 for the Individual Honours Project.

 

Literature reviews

Most recent reviews in cybersecurity (Abdullahi et al., 2022; Herath et al., 2022) in user experience design (Aldrees and Gracanin, 2023; Stige et al., 2023) in artificial intelligence (Chiu et al., 2023; Kaushal et al., 2023) and in games (Razami and Ibrahim, 2022; Rogers et al., 2022)  follow the methodology of Kitchenham and Charters (2007) in software or the PRISMA statement (Page et al., 2021).

The key steps in building a systematic review consist of:

1. Planning the review

  • Identify the need.
  • Specify your research question.
  • Develop the review protocol.

2. Conducting the review

  • Identify research
  • Select studies
  • Quality assessment
  • Data extraction
  • Data synthesis

3. Reporting the review

  • Specify dissemination mechanisms.
  • Format the report. 

E-Leaning Courses

Foundations of Academic Research

The ability to find information is the foundation to successful career.

This e-learning course will give you an overview of the library and teach you essential skills about finding information for assignments and beyond.

Time required: less than 2h

Part of the Graduate+ Bronze award.

 

Moodle

Enhancing your Researching Skills

library bot shines over library search

 

As part of your course or professional projects you will need to research a topic of your choice. Conducting research on your own can be daunting and it is sometimes difficult to determine where to start.

In this online course you learn how to expand your horizon with a structured approach of researching, how to diversify sources and use advanced search techniques.

Time required: ~1h45

Part of the Graduate+ Silver award.

 

Moodle

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