A blog about digital teaching and learning in History and related subjects
Author: Jamie WoodIn this post, Mitchell Lovewell, a final-year History student at the University of Lincoln, talks us through the findings of a report on reading that he put together for Teaching History a module that he took in the first half of 2022. Introduction ‘Go throw your TV set away, and in its place you canContinue reading Teaching History: A Report on Reading
In this post Anna Wray, a final year History student at the University of Nottingham and one of the student researchers on the Active Online Reading project, shares some of her reflections on what she learnt when analysing survey responses relating to collaborative reading. Anna analysed responses to our survey on staff perceptions of students’Continue reading The benefits (and challenges) of reading together online: student and staff perspectives
In this blog post, Annabelle Mansell, one of our student researchers (and a third-year Classical Studies student at the University of Lincoln), shares what she learnt from analysing survey responses that addressed questions of accessibility. As we saw in the last blog post, students – and, to a lesser extent, staff – see accessibility asContinue reading Academic Reading and Accessibility: Practices and pedagogies
In this blog post, Samantha Sharman (2nd year Classical Studies student at the University of Lincoln and one of our student researchers) compares what staff and students thought were the advantages of online reading in our survey. The post forms a sort of pair with one about ‘challenges‘, published yesterday. Over the past few years,Continue reading The advantages of online reading – academic and student perspectives
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