Pandemic Pedagogy: Building Online Learning Communities

Aimee Merrydew (PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in English Literature, Keele University)  Working collaboratively online is different to face-to-face group work in a physical classroom. Students may not know others on the course or how to work as part Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy: Building Online Learning Communities

Should we stop worrying about contact hours?

Kate Cooper (Professor of History, Royal Holloway, University of London) One of the problems worrying wise heads as they think ahead to the autumn involves the instructional quantum formerly known as contact hours. Once we are no longer meeting in Continue reading Should we stop worrying about contact hours?

Pandemic Pedagogy – Accessibility in Remote Learning, why does it matter?

Louise Creechan (GTA English Literature and Widening Participation, University of Glasgow) This week the Pandemic Pedagogy team at History UK have been thinking about accessibility.We believe that accessibility needs to be our first consideration when we begin to plan for Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy – Accessibility in Remote Learning, why does it matter?

Pandemic Pedagogy: Thinking about teaching at a time of uncertainty

Kate Cooper (Professor of History, Royal Holloway, University of London) The summer of 2020 is not what any of us expected: with libraries closed and summer holidays a matter of finding a new routine within the same four walls, the Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy: Thinking about teaching at a time of uncertainty

History UK Pandemic Pedagogy fellowship

At the beginning of June, History UK launched a ‘Pandemic Pedagogy’ initiative to help support historians move out of the ‘emergency’ phase of online teaching and start planning for a remote and socially-distanced campus in the Autumn. The aim is Continue reading History UK Pandemic Pedagogy fellowship