Digital Reading in the Age of AI

Along with Jon Chandler (UCL), I’ve just had a blog published with ALT. It previews a presentation that we’re giving at the ALT conference (ALT-C) in Glasgow tomorrow. Our paper is entitled “Reimagining Historical Thinking: Aspiring Teachers, GenAI, and the Future of Learning” and in it we report on some research into History students’ viewsContinue reading Digital Reading in the Age of AI

Post-Pandemic Pedagogy update

Marcus Collins (Loughborough) and I just published some of the findings of the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project. We investigated what history students and lecturers thought about teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic and their preferences for how teaching and learning should be delivered afterwards. The paper was published a couple of weeks ago in the History EducationContinue reading Post-Pandemic Pedagogy update

New blog post published: Assessing reading in the age of AI

I had a post published on the SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association – the professional association for staff and educational developers in the UK) blog the other day. In it, I talked about some of my experiences of using online reading platforms as a means of assessing students engagement in the process of learning.Continue reading New blog post published: Assessing reading in the age of AI

More on digital reading: barriers and approaches (in Classics)

Just a quick note to announce the publication of a couple of things. First, the report on the workshop that Michael Wuk and I ran in May, Reading Classics Online, which was published on the Council of University Classics Departments Education blog. Second, I wrote a piece for Times Higher Education on the barriers thatContinue reading More on digital reading: barriers and approaches (in Classics)

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