A blog about digital teaching and learning in History and related subjects
Last week, Samantha Sharman, Annabelle Mansell and Jamie Wood published a post on the QAA blog (“Reading Classics online: staff and student perspectives”) that explored student and staff perspectives on online reading in the discipline of Classics. Here’s a short extract on some of the challenges of online reading: Students and staff respondents in bothContinue reading Reading Classics online: staff and student perspectives
Getting students actively engaging with reading in large classes can be challenging and was doubly so during pandemic lockdowns. This new publication from the Active Online Reading project outlines some of the ways that colleagues teaching large first year courses at UCL and the University of Lincoln sought to address these challenges. Abstract: In largeContinue reading New Publication: Promoting Active Engagement with Text-Based Resources in Large First-Year Modules in History
In the next in the series of Active Online Reading posts from our student researchers, Lee Bowditch, second year undergraduate studying for a BSc in Business & Management Undergrad at Salford Business School, shares his thoughts on his own experiences of online reading at university. When I was asked to be a part of theContinue reading Accessibility and online reading: a student perspective
In this post, the second in a series of three that survey literature on online reading, Rachel Bartley (UCL) addresses the issue of print vs. digital reading. You can read the first part of the literature review here. Digital devices’ place at the centre of academic research and students’ academic engagement is now largely accepted,Continue reading Comparing Digital and Print Academic Reading
In the next post as part of the Active Online Reading project, Anna Rich-Abad (staff profile here), Assistant Professor in Medieval History, University of Nottingham, offers her perspective on the challenges of reading (and searching online). I miss the “good old times” when research was done on physical documents and books; visits to libraries andContinue reading Reading online: the double-edged sword