Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Here are the slides that I delivered at the HEA workshop “Professional Presences For Academics” related to examples of different promotional methods. The slides are hosted on the SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster. They cover all types of ways of self-promotion using web sites, blogs and social media, but they will be particularly useful to …
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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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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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Just ran through the LinkedIn Labs InMap Tool to see what my professional network looks like. (you can also view the larger full size image here) Unsurprisingly, it’s dominated by my current place of work, but it’s certainly interesting to see the different links between the people I know from different aspects of my career. …
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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