Virtual careers fairs
The Careers, Placement and Experience Centre (CPEC) here at Reading has invested in virtual fair technology, which has enabled the service to extend its traditional offer of careers fairs and provide studentsRead More…
Digital literacies and skills for 21st-century learning: Steve Wheeler visits Reading
Digitally Ready is proud to welcome Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor of Learning Technology at Plymouth University, who will be visiting Reading on 30 April to speak about ‘Digital literacies and skills for 21st-century learning’.Read More…
(Video) Lessons learnt the hard way last forever
Hello, I am Katerina Lazidou, a research student working on a small project funded by the Digitally Ready team. This small project is being conducted for the School of Biological Sciences hereRead More…
Placement support online – for staff and for students
Our research study into digital literacies for student employability, focusing on WRPL and the University’s placement schemes, revealed that many students are as yet unaware of the full range of opportunities onRead More…
Learning on Screen Awards
Congratulations to our Digital Hero Matthew Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, who has been shortlisted for a prestigious Learning on Screen Award by the British Universities Film & Video CouncilRead More…
Closing the feedback loop
A couple of weeks ago, I foolishly promised readers of this blog a catch-up on the latest session in our Teaching & Learning Showcase series – ‘Closing the feedback loop’, which tookRead More…
Show & TEL: Progress with Digitally Ready
Digitally Ready requests the pleasure of your company at our lunchtime ‘Show & TEL: Progress with Digitally Ready’ on 1 March, 12.30–2.00 here at Reading. This session is open to all Reading staffRead More…
Getting it right: our new PGCAP
Here in the Centre for Staff Training & Development (CSTD) at Reading we’ve been working for some time behind the scenes to design a new Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) toRead More…
From paper (lots of it) to pixels
A distinguishing feature of the BA programme in Typography are the professional assignments we run with external clients – our Real Jobs scheme. These ‘in-house placements’ allow inexperienced students to deal withRead More…
Art studio network: Students take the wheel
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.” (John Dewey) A few months ago IRead More…