A blog about digital teaching and learning in History and related subjects
Last week, the brilliant Aimee Merrydew (Keele University) shared a Study Matters podcast in which she interviewed me about the work of the Active Online Reading project on digital reading pedagogies and practices. You can watch the podcast below- enjoy! Study Matters Podcast · Episode 13: Reading Digital Texts for University Study
On 20th March, I delivered my inaugural lecture at the University of Lincoln. I can’t say that I was massively looking forward to it, but in the end I really enjoyed it. The Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies organises, records and shares the lectures on their website (see here for the full list). You canContinue reading Inaugural action: Reading Lessons – From Papyrus to ChatGPT
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
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