A blog about digital teaching and learning in History and related subjects
In the summer, I published a short piece with Times Higher Education, entitled ‘Putting the joy back into reading’ in which I outline some of the challenges and opportunities of online reading practices and technologies. It offers something of a background for the Active Online Reading project. You can read the piece here (no paywall).
This week’s Active Online Reading post from one of our student researchers is from Annabelle Mansell a 3rd year Classical Studies student at the University of Lincoln. In the post, Annabelle outlines her strategies (and technologies) for productive reading. When it comes to reading novels, my approach has always been to settle down in aContinue reading When it comes to reading…
As part of the Active Online Reading project, Matt East recently conducted an interview with Roy Hanney, Matthew Lea, Paul Stevens, and Martin Hughes from Southampton Solent University about the challenges associated with getting students to read, their approaches to engaging students in reading and how the pandemic affected online reading practices and pedagogies. YouContinue reading A conversation about the challenges and opportunities of online reading
Matt East (@mdleast) has just published an excellent blog with SEDA reporting a recent workshop on transitions in HE at which he led a problem-solving (and identifying) session on reading in HE. Here is an extract from the conclusion, which summarises some of the key findings from this workshop, which will inform our work onContinue reading The problem we face with digital reading