professional practice

Enhancing Student Employability Through The Peer Review Of Professional Online Presences Video

Here is a video version of my talk from the Birmingham City University RESCON Conference 2015. You can see the slides from the original talk and a short discussion here. The RESCON talk was given a short time slot and hence delivered at a hectic pace. I tend to provide rather more material of interest …

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Enhancing Student Employability Through The Peer Review Of Professional Online Presences

I’ve previously shared my work on integrating student Professional Online Presences into teaching at various conferences and invited talks, but it’s a couple of years since I’ve provided a research update. The ideas are now much more accepted and mainstream when they were when I first started working in the field. Many students realise that …

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Teaching Undergraduate Research Methods Using Action Learning Sets – Video Post

This video presentation explores the methods that I’ve been using with my undergraduate students to help them to gain a practical understanding of research methods and to become prepared to use research within their final year project. The presentation is part of the current Higher Education Academy project on Innovation In The Assessment Of Social …

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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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