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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Perspectives on assessment from the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project

In this blog post, Bethany Stokes and Olivia Hennessy, third-year History students at the University of Lincoln, share their perspectives on some research that they did as part of the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project. Recently, we analysed some data as part of the wider Post-Pandemic Pedagogy survey of History students and staff that was carried outContinue reading Perspectives on assessment from the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project

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Teaching History: A Report on Reading

In this post, Mitchell Lovewell, a final-year History student at the University of Lincoln, talks us through the findings of a report on reading that he put together for Teaching History a module that he took in the first half of 2022. Introduction ‘Go throw your TV set away, and in its place you canContinue reading Teaching History: A Report on Reading

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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