academic literacy, Active Online Reading, Cambridge, critical reading, digital history, digital reading, history, Newspapers, online learning, online reading, primary sources, QAA, reading, students | Leave a Comment on Teaching Active Online Reading at Cambridge University’s History Faculty Library

Teaching Active Online Reading at Cambridge University’s History Faculty Library

In this post, Paul Cooke, History Faculty Librarian at the University of Cambridge, offers some really interesting insights into how he teaches students to engage productively with digital texts in History. Paul can be contacted on Pkc24[at]cam.ac.uk. Find out more about the History Faculty Library here: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seeley-library Researchers and students at the University of Cambridge areContinue reading Teaching Active Online Reading at Cambridge University’s History Faculty Library

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Neo-classicism in the HE classroom, 13th June 2013

I attended a really excellent HEA event at the University of Roehampton last week, Neo-classicism in the HE classroom, on the reception of classical culture in eighteenth century England. Dr Alannah Tomkins, of Keele University, ran a really useful workshop on how we can use the search functions of databases such as Gale’s 17th andContinue reading Neo-classicism in the HE classroom, 13th June 2013