Anglo-American conference and new website!

Well, what an exciting couple of days its been at the IHR.  Not only is the 79th Anglo-American conference in full swing (the topic is Environments, for those who haven’t had a look at the programme) but our new ‘History’ website was launched late on...

My first task as project officer was to examine the current provision of research seminars in an online format.  This includes courses (such as the Open University’s Open Learn website) as well as seminar podcasts on iTunes U, The History Faculty and by other...

Today is the final day for our survey about the online delivery of seminars and in particular podcasting at the IHR.  We have had a fantastic response and I would like to thank everyone who has taken part.  The results of the draw to win a 1 year subscription to the...

Live Streaming

One element of online seminar provision the IHR are looking into is live streamed events.  This is not something that happens often in academia at present but does offer the potential for interaction with the seminar in real time – something that pre-recorded...

Survey Reminder

Hi all. Just a gentle reminder that our survey about podcasts and the online delivery of seminars will finish this coming Wednesday (9 June 2010). Remember, by filling in this survey you can be put into a draw to win a one year subscription to the Historical Research...

IHR Online Research Seminar Survey

Hi everyone, I thought it was well past time that I made another update to this blog.  We are still carrying out initial research into the state of exisiting online delivery of seminars including, specifically, podcasting.  Its not long now until we’ll have...