Author: Philosophies of History at University of Leeds
We’re pleased to circulate the following announcement of a series of informal seminars at on the philosophy of history at the University of Leeds. The programme for the year is available here.
Making Digital History’s weekly links 06/14/2014
Thanasoulas – What is Learner Autonomy? Tags: learner autonomy, resources, cognitive strategies, learning Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online Tags: resources, Judith Boettcher, online courses, online learning, online teaching, best practice Center for teaching and Learning – Syllabus Tutorial Tags: syllabus, syllabus design, teaching, tutorial, resources Meyer/Land – Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Tags: resources,Continue reading Making Digital History’s weekly links 06/14/2014
Project reports submitted to HEA and JISC
I’ve spent a few days writing and revising the final reports for the following e-learning projects which we’ve been involved in over the past year: Making Digital History, funded by the HEA/JISC Digital Literacies in the Disciplines funding programme (report here); T&L: Tagging and Learning – Developing digital literacy through social bookmarking, funded as part of the HEA’sContinue reading Project reports submitted to HEA and JISC
Using YouTube to teach ancient identities
What do modern Goths have to do with ancient and medieval ones? In the Autumn semester last year, the students on my third year module in History at the University of Lincoln, The Goths: Barbarians through History?, took a closer look at this question. In the first half of the module we looked at the GothsContinue reading Using YouTube to teach ancient identities
Making Digital History – an (accidental update)
Last week, after misreading an email from the excellent Terry McAndrew (@TerryTechdis) at the HEA/JISC, I accidentally produced a short interim report on the wrong project! In the spirit of not wasting what I’d written, it’s reproduced in part here: Basically, all of the formal teaching elements using Xerte are completed now. Some of theContinue reading Making Digital History – an (accidental update)