Professional Practice

What Makes Up A Professional Presence For Academics?

There’s always a question about what makes up a good professional presence for academics. There are so many different sites which could be registered with and used, and this can look overwhelming to someone new to representing themselves online. These are the slides I delivered for a recent Higher Education Academy workshop where I broke …

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5 Reasons Why Students Should Embrace MOOC Opportunities

The educational arena has been changing with the increased availability of courses offered through MOOCS, Massive Open Online Courses. I proposed some general information about the advantages of MOOCs, as part of an article on the Birmingham City University School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks blog. But these large scale courses, usually delivered around the …

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Using Professional Online Presences To Enhance Computing Student Employability

At the HEA STEM Conference 2013, I presented on the work that I’ve doing helping students to develop a Professional Presence, as well as some initial evaluation about the success of that approach towards helping students to become more employable. The research showed that students were engaging with setting up LinkedIn profiles, creating their own …

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Social Media Branding For Computing Professionals

Here’s a copy of a talk that I delivered for the Cheltenham and Gloucester branch of the British Computer Society. The talk is designed to show some of the methods that I’ve identified for Computing Professionals to build a professional brand online, primarily by using social media and their own professional websites. To keep this …

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