on Can You Really Buy A PhD Online? Much attention has been paid in the UK to the petition aiming to ban the advertising and provision of essay mill services. This says that you…
on 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…
on The Best Way To Take Notes At Conferences And Workshops? When attending an academic conference or workshop, it’s always useful to take notes. There might be some good ideas shared during the workshop…
on How To Create A High Quality Personal Statement For University Entry As part of my responsibility for the BSc Computer Science course at Birmingham City University, I get the opportunity to review a lot of…
on My Professional LinkedIn Network Visualised 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…
on Beyond Prompt Engineering – What Do Students Really Need to Learn About AI? Is prompt engineering really the skill that we should be teaching students to prepare them for the future? I keep reading posts suggesting…
on Plagiarism and Assessment I regularly discuss issues relating to the assessment of student work when I give presentations on plagiarism, contract cheating and academic…
on Social Media Branding For Computing Professionals Here’s a copy of a talk that I delivered for the Cheltenham and Gloucester branch of the British Computer Society. The talk is designed to…
on Policies for Academic Integrity in Montenegro and South East Europe – Council of Europe Montenegro Montenegro is a fascinating country, which I had the pleasure to visit as part of our SEEPPAI research. There is only one public university,…
on Student Plagiarism – What Is It? And What Should We, As Academics, Do About It? The workshop for which the slides are included below was particularly interesting for me, as it was the first workshop for some time that I’d…