academic literacy, active learning, Active Online Reading, annotation, assessment, Classics, Collaboration, critical reading, digital literacy, digital reading, Dissemination, E-learning, history, Humanities, Late Antiquity, online reading, pedagogy, primary sources, Publications, QAA, reading, social annotation, students, Talis Elevate | Leave a Comment on Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage

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

Active Online Reading, Classics, critical reading, digital literacy, digital reading, Lincoln, online reading, pedagogy, QAA, reading, skills, student as partner, student researchers, Talis | Leave a Comment on Reading Classics online: staff and student perspectives

Reading Classics online: staff and student perspectives

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

active learning, Active Online Reading, annotation, asynchronous, critical reading, digital literacy, digital reading, Dissemination, history, large classes, Lincoln, lockdown, online reading, pandemic, pedagogy, publication, QAA, reading, skills, sources, Talis, Talis Elevate, UCL | Leave a Comment on New Publication: Promoting Active Engagement with Text-Based Resources in Large First-Year Modules in History

New Publication: Promoting Active Engagement with Text-Based Resources in Large First-Year Modules in History

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

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The benefits (and challenges) of reading together online: student and staff perspectives

In this post Anna Wray, a final year History student at the University of Nottingham and one of the student researchers on the Active Online Reading project, shares some of her reflections on what she learnt when analysing survey responses relating to collaborative reading. Anna analysed responses to our survey on staff perceptions of students’Continue reading The benefits (and challenges) of reading together online: student and staff perspectives

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Academic Reading and Accessibility: Practices and pedagogies

In this blog post, Annabelle Mansell, one of our student researchers (and a third-year Classical Studies student at the University of Lincoln), shares what she learnt from analysing survey responses that addressed questions of accessibility. As we saw in the last blog post, students – and, to a lesser extent, staff – see accessibility asContinue reading Academic Reading and Accessibility: Practices and pedagogies