Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
On 6 March, 2014, Birmingham City University was very proud to host a Higher Education Academy workshop on how vendor resources can be integrated into teaching to improve the employability prospects of students. The workshop particularly related to the Computing discipline and the work of the School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks, but the general …
This is the second of two talks I delivered on contract cheating at a Birmingham City University workshop funded by the Higher Education Academy. The focus of this talk was on three areas for people considering what to do about contract cheating: prevention, detection and policy. Several of the slides are prompt led and this …
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This is a different talk on contract cheating to the ones that I normally deliver, as this was part of a general training workshop for contract cheating funded by the Higher Education Academy. This is the first of two talks I delivered that day (Bob Clarke also contributed an activity). The focus was particularly on …
One of the biggest challenges I’ve had recently is condensing some of the research highlights behind contract cheating into a talk timed to last just 10 minutes, for Birmingham City University’s RESCON conference. The slides, also available on SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster, are the result. This talk looked particularly at the pricing of essays, …
As part of my responsibility for the BSc Computer Science course at Birmingham City University, I get the opportunity to review a lot of Personal Statements submitted by students looking to join the course. I spoke to students at Solihull College about how to best present themselves for successfully university entry and the slides are …
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