The Courses that Karim currently teaches on are:
Currently teaching the following modules:
- Strategic IT Planning (Postgraduate)
- Strategic Information Systems (Undergraduate)
- Business and Technology Entrepreneurship (Undergraduate)
- Professional Context of Technology (Undergraduate)
MSc dissertation project administrator.
Supervision of postgraduate dissertation students.
Supervision of undergraduate dissertation (final year) students.
Higher Education course design.
In particular these lie in the field of:
- Higher Education policy making
- Widening participation in higher education
- Supporting lifelong learning (and work based learning)
- Mobile learning
BSc (Hons) Computing Science
Master’s in Education (Open)
Master’s in Business Administration (Open)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Research interests
Investigating how ‘Communities-of-Practice’ (COP) can enhance University Students’ Group work Experience.
Karim to date, has supervised over 25 Master’s Dissertation Project students.
Presented at a Peer-Reviewed UK Conference attended
Visram, K. (2017) “An Exploratory Study into University Lecturers’ perceptions regarding the Introduction of the Flip-Curriculum: Fool’s Gold or a Golden Egg?”, Annual HEA STEM Research Conference - 6 July 2017, University of Manchester.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Visram, K. (2017) “Content Analysis of Year 7 Childrens’ Aspirations ”, Doctoral Research Project, University of Reading.
Visram, K. (2016) “Tame and Wicked Leadership in Higher Education: a Case Study of One University”, Doctoral Research Project, University of Reading.
Visram, K. (2016) “What’s your Research Paradigm?”, Doctoral Research Project, University of Reading.
Published Book Reviews (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Visram, K. (2009) Steve Kempster’s book: ‘How managers have learnt to lead – Exploring the Development of Leadership Practice’, Leadership, November 2009, Volume. 5, Issue. 4, pp. 494 – 496, SAGE.
Presented at Peer-Reviewed, International Conferences attended
Visram, K. (2004) ‘Extreme Programming: Pair-Programmers, Team Players or Future Leaders?’, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, November 9-11, 2004, pp. 659 – 664, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Published Book Reviews (not peer-reviewed, but published in British Computer Society Members Publication)
July 2004 The Computer Bulletin: Eclipse for Java Developers, Berthold Daum
Nov. 2003 Formal Methods for Distributed Processing: Howard Bowman, John Derrick
May 2002 Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for E-Commerce, Alan Simon, Steven Shaffer
Nov. 2001 Automated Web Testing Toolkit, Diane Stottlemyer
