A blog about digital teaching and learning in History and related subjects
As part of the Active Online Reading project, we will be collating and sharing pedagogic resources focused on supporting students in developing reading skills. Although the AOR project focuses on online reading, we want to share resources the are relevant to reading offline too! Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Reader in History at Liverpool John Moores UniversityContinue reading Sharing pedagogic resources on (online) reading
Samantha Sharman is one of the student researchers on our project. She is in the second year of a Classical Studies degree at the University of Lincoln. She’s written this blog post reflecting on her experiences of reading at university. Each of the members of the team (https://makingdigitalhistory.co.uk/read/active-online-reading/project-team/) will be doing the same, so thanksContinue reading Reflecting on Reading at University: a student perspective
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
How can digital reading tools enable students to develop their ability to read sources collaboratively and critically? In the summer, I published a post on the University of Lincoln Digital education blog about my use of Talis Elevate on a third year module to support student engagement with primary source readings online. I’ve been developing theContinue reading Developing students’ abilities to read primary sources using online tools
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