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Active Online Reading, annotation, Collaboration, critical reading, digital reading, E-learning, Keele, online reading, QAA, reading, skills, social annotation, students, Talis, Talis Elevate | Leave a Comment on Confidence is key: Building students’ academic reading literacies through collaborative annotation

Confidence is key: Building students’ academic reading literacies through collaborative annotation

In this guest post, Aimee Merrydew, a Curriculum Developer at Keele University, shares her experiences and reflections on teaching using a collaborative annotation approach in the School of English there. We hope that you enjoy the post! I spend a lot of my time helping students to understand the differences between reading texts for funContinue reading Confidence is key: Building students’ academic reading literacies through collaborative annotation

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Reading online: the double-edged sword

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

academic literacy, active learning, Active Online Reading, critical reading, digital reading, E-learning, Humanities, online reading, pedagogy, QAA, reading, skills, social annotation, students, Talis | 1 Comment on What we have learned so far from the Active Online Reading surveys

What we have learned so far from the Active Online Reading surveys

In this blog post, Matt East (Talis Education) shares some initial findings from the Active Online Reading project’s international surveys of staff and students. A key strand of the Active Online Reading project has involved surveying staff and students on their experiences of online reading, both in terms of their personal practice and, in theContinue reading What we have learned so far from the Active Online Reading surveys

active learning, Active Online Reading, asynchronous, Blackboard, critical reading, digital history, digital reading, EMC, history, History UK, online reading, pedagogy, Post-Pandemic Pedagogy, QAA, reading, social annotation, students, survey, Talis, Talis Elevate | Leave a Comment on Post-pandemic reading

Post-pandemic reading

The Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project, which I’ve been working on with Marcus Collins (Loughborough), Aimee Merrydew (Keele) and others for the past year (funded by the EMC, History UK and the RHS), involved a survey of History staff and students at UK universities. We asked them about their experiences and perceptions of teaching and learning duringContinue reading Post-pandemic reading

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The benefits and challenges of reading online – a student perspective

In this blog post, Anna Wray, one of our student researchers from the University of Nottingham outlines her experiences and practices of digital reading. She tells us how books helped her to improve her posture while reading digitally and has some useful tips (and tools) about focusing when studying online. History, put quite simply, requiresContinue reading The benefits and challenges of reading online – a student perspective