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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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Teaching Active Online Reading at Cambridge University’s History Faculty Library

In this post, Paul Cooke, History Faculty Librarian at the University of Cambridge, offers some really interesting insights into how he teaches students to engage productively with digital texts in History. Paul can be contacted on Pkc24[at]cam.ac.uk. Find out more about the History Faculty Library here: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seeley-library Researchers and students at the University of Cambridge areContinue reading Teaching Active Online Reading at Cambridge University’s History Faculty Library

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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