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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is recruiting a Digital Marketing Coordinator responsible for strategy, content creation and day-to-day management of a

Welcome to the first part of our series on podcasting for beginners. Here are all 5 parts of the series: Part 1: Preparation (you're reading it now) Part 2: Equipment Part 3: Production Part 4: Editing Part 5: Publishing The podcast movement is...

Technology can offer many opportunities and benefits to students in helping them to develop and communicate their employability skills. However many educational providers miss vital opportunities to equip students with the skills needed in the modern workplace.This webinar will summarise the findings from the recently launched 'technology for employability' report, focusing on an emerging vision for how universities and colleges can best prepare students for life and employment in a digital world.AimsWe will describe a generic ‘employable student’ model which balances discipline and employability elements, using seven key employability groupings and digital literacies embedded throughout. We will also show a ‘connected curricula’ model for integrating employability and digital literacy into programme design.Participants will explore these approaches, discuss what they mean in practice, and raise the challenges to achieving them.We will also touch on further findings from the research, including a five dimensional model for considering the opportunities technology can offer and the accompanying benefits of use.PreparationIn preparation for the webinar, please familiarise yourselves with:The technology for employability quick read reportHigher education (HE) and further education (FE) case studies.The full report is also available.You can follow project developments via our developing student employability project page and our blog

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It’s easy to dismiss apps such as Snapchat and Instagram as mere distractions, but they can work wonders for learning and teaching

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A review of different methods and models for developing a marketing communications plan Introduction Commercial as well as non-profit organisations, rout. Marketing topic(s):Planning and budgeting. Advice by Expert commentator.

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Have you got an ORCID identifier yet? You should. They’re on the rise – and for good reason. An ORCID iD is a number (mine is 0000-0002-0552-8870) that

HEFCE have announced they are arranging an independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management. The Impact blog welcomes this review and will look to encourage wider dis…

Pat Thomson on the scholarly virtues of putting your thoughts online

White Rose universities' new platform will highlight academic excellence

Taking the lead from Peter Walsh’s laudible work on academic celebrity, here’s some lessons from the career of Tony Giddens which I inferred from this excellent review article Peter pointed me towa…

Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research A lay summary can be a useful approach to breaking down barriers and making research accessible. A good summary focuses on t…

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By Jeffrey Beall Released December 4, 2012 The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the...

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