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Facing current challenges can be a vital part of our curriculum

Facing current challenges can be a vital part of our curriculum

by royalhistsoc | 27 Sep 2021 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts

At a time of already great disruption, historians at Aston University this year faced the threat of departmental closure and redundancy. Public and private support for Aston historians led to the programme’s survival, though colleagues at Aston and historians...
Creating an Online Community: A Pre-Pandemic Initiative

Creating an Online Community: A Pre-Pandemic Initiative

by Katherine Foxhall | 22 Apr 2021 | General, Guest Posts

Professor Marjory Harper won the 2020 RHS Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here, she reflects on the process of planning an online Master’s Programme in Scottish Heritage in 2017. Launching in July 2023, the Jinty Nelson...
Teaching Materials for Low-Tech Online Teaching: Planning for Social Distancing

Teaching Materials for Low-Tech Online Teaching: Planning for Social Distancing

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | General

In this guest post, the first of two looking at low-tech materials for online teaching, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers advice to teachers about the different teaching materials to use to...
Bridging ‘Digital Divides’ in Virtual Teaching

Bridging ‘Digital Divides’ in Virtual Teaching

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

We should not assume that others interact with the digital world in the same way as we do ourselves. In this post Dr Andrew Smith and Dr Mary Morrissey consider the challenges that many students encounter when required to engage with online teaching.  As noted by...

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