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Commercial Aspects Of Contract Cheating

Our research into contract cheating now includes more than 18,000 examples of attempts by students to cheat. One aspect we wanted to explore is to answer the often asked questions about the monetary sides to contract cheating. Who really profits? This talk explores the commercial aspects associated with contract cheating, including examples from the diverse …

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The Application Of Intelligent Context-Aware Systems To The Detection Of Online Student Cheating – Video Post

Here is the video version of a presentation for the ICAS 2013 workshop. I’m unable to attend this workshop in person as I’m attending ITiCSE 2013 at the same time, however one of my colleagues will provide the presentation at the workshop on my behalf. The presentation looks at applying the growing research area of …

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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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Developing Your Digital Presence For Academics

Here’s a slideshow for material presented by Alex Spiers at a seminar at Liverpool John Moores University recently. It’s all about how academics and researchers can develop their own digital presence. The area is of particular interest to me as I’m running a workshop on Professional Presences For Academics at Birmingham City University in May. …

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Why The Computing Discipline Cares About Sandwich Year Placements

Over the past year, I’ve been involved with the biggest research project I’ve participating in since completing my PhD. I say “involved”, as this for research I’ve been in charge of a small team of two Research Associates looking into the issues surround Sandwich Year Placements within the Computing discipline. This has been a 15 …

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