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Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage

Matt East, Leah Warriner-Wood and myself have recently had a chapter published in the edited book Agile Learning Environments amid Disruption, edited by Golam Jamil and Dawn A Morley. In it, we reflect on the approach that was adopted to teaching students to read primary sources through annotation across three iterations of a research-led undergraduateContinue reading Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage

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New publication: Reading through the pandemic

Graham Barrett, Jon Fitzgibbons, Michele Vescovi and myself recently had an article published in the IMPact e-journal of Higher Education Research, which is published by the University of Lincoln. In it, we reflected on our experiences of teaching students digital reading (and other!) skills during the Covid-19 pandemic. You can read the full paper here:Continue reading New publication: Reading through the pandemic

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Mad or Bad? Personalised and Collaborative Learning

In this post, my colleague Dr Jade Shepherd, Senior Lecturer in Modern History (1800-present) at the University of Lincoln, shares some of the brilliant work that she’s been doing with her students for the past few years on her final-year module. There are some great ideas in here that could easily be adapted in aContinue reading Mad or Bad? Personalised and Collaborative Learning

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Perspectives on assessment from the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project

In this blog post, Bethany Stokes and Olivia Hennessy, third-year History students at the University of Lincoln, share their perspectives on some research that they did as part of the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project. Recently, we analysed some data as part of the wider Post-Pandemic Pedagogy survey of History students and staff that was carried outContinue reading Perspectives on assessment from the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project

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What I’ve learnt from reading about reading (so far)

The next in our series of student researcher reflections on reading is from Rachel Bartley (UCL). Rachel shares her thoughts on how her own reading practices and preferences relate to what she’s learnt from conducting a literature review of reading (online and in print). Reading the literature about reading best-practice, annotation and technology for thisContinue reading What I’ve learnt from reading about reading (so far)