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Reading Digital Texts for University Study (Study Matters podcast)

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

Inaugural action: Reading Lessons – From Papyrus to ChatGPT

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

An oldie: Developing creativity through inquiry and technology (2016)

Sometime in 2016, I published a blog on the (then) Higher Education Academy (HEA) website with Marie Griffiths and Maria Kutar (Salford Business School, University of Salford) on the findings of a project we’d done on creativity. The original blog is no longer available, but I’ve dug it out and lightly edited it (including fixingContinue reading An oldie: Developing creativity through inquiry and technology (2016)

More on digital reading: barriers and approaches (in Classics)

Just a quick note to announce the publication of a couple of things. First, the report on the workshop that Michael Wuk and I ran in May, Reading Classics Online, which was published on the Council of University Classics Departments Education blog. Second, I wrote a piece for Times Higher Education on the barriers thatContinue reading More on digital reading: barriers and approaches (in Classics)

Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage

Matt East, Leah Warriner-Wood and myself have recently had a chapter published in the edited book Agile Learning Environments amid Disruption, edited by Golam Jamil and Dawn A Morley. In it, we reflect on the approach that was adopted to teaching students to read primary sources through annotation across three iterations of a research-led undergraduateContinue reading Recent publication – Reading Online during Lockdown: Insights from History and Heritage