Examples Of Promoting Research Through Professional Presences

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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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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Outsourcing Assignments? Exposing The Threat Posed By Contract Cheating To The Computing Industry

I recently joined Robert Clarke in speaking about contract cheating to a room full of academics and people from within the wider Computing industry. As well as looking at examples of contract cheating and the research involved, the talk also considered some of the implications for student employability. The presentation took place for the Wolverhampton …

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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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