2016 November Archive | Disruptive Media Learning Lab

Collaborators / Phil Jones

Academic Liaison Manager A qualified information professional (A.K.A. librarian) I am the Academic Liaison Manager at Coventry University’s Lanchester Library so I manage the relationship between the library and the faculties. I’ve an interest in the linked concepts of Information and Digital Literacies, with a passion for encouraging people to think critically about their information and digital..

Blog : Drama activities for Health and Wellbeing: Looking back and looking forward / Part 2

27th November 2016
Tags: ageing, Arts, Arts Gymnasium, dementia, informal learning, Participant Researcher, theatre

The Arts Gymnasium is an innovative research project which uses theatre and drama activities to contribute to the quality of life and positive well-being of people living in Coventry. It addresses the difficult question of how can drama and the arts make a positive impact on people’s lives. It is work in partnership between the..

Collaborators / Mark Hodds

Mathematics Support Lecturer Dr Mark Hodds completed his undergraduate studies with a BSc (Hons.) in Mathematics and Accounting and Finance at Loughborough University in 2010 before staying at Loughborough to complete his PhD in Mathematics Education on “Improving proof comprehension in undergraduate mathematics” in 2014. He has always enjoyed teaching mathematics to students of all..

Blog : Drama activities for Health and Wellbeing: Looking back and looking forward / Part 1

20th November 2016
Tags: Arts, Arts Gymnasium, Community, dementia, informal learning, Participant Researcher, theatre

The Arts Gymnasium is an innovative research project which uses theatre and drama activities to contribute to the quality of life and positive well-being of people living in Coventry. It addresses the difficult question of how can drama and the arts make a positive impact on people’s lives. It is work in partnership between..

Blog : bewilderED: An Experiment in Using Non-Digital, Transmedia Story Telling & Mystery for Exercise Science Education.

18th November 2016

For a long time I have been obsessed with ‘The Mysterious Package Company’ which can be found here: Mysterious Package Company.You can read more about the Mysterious package Company at their website or here. Their tag line ‘Stories you can Touch’, really caught me, and I was instantly interested to find out more about this idea of..

Blog : Developing Interactive Fiction with Learning Objectives for Fostering Player Choice & Ownership in Education.

18th November 2016

Most people are familiar with the paradigm of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books, but for those who are not familiar, wiki defines these books as: “Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children’s game books where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and..

Blog : Disruptive Humanities - Designing a New Course

11th November 2016

This week the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL) ran the first of their Beyond Flipped SPRINTs for Dr Darren Reid and Brett Sanders of the University’s School of Humanities. Darren and Brett see new pedagogical practices as an integral part of increasing student satisfaction and enabling deep learning. They worked with the DMLL to design..

Collaborators / Roxani Athousaki

Lecturer in Aviation Management Roxani Athousaki is an Aviation Management lecturer at Coventry University teaching and developing material for Airline Marketing, Aviation Strategy and Simulation. She has a BSc Aerospace Engineering, (ERAU, FL Campus), and a MA in International Business and Management, (Westminster University, UK). She worked for the airline and travel and tourism industry..

Collaborators / Tom Gorman

Lecturer in Theatre Tom Gorman is an academic and theatre director currently based at Coventry University. Tom studied English Literature and Language at Queen’s University Belfast before going on to complete a PhD in Theatre at the University of Ulster researching the history of non-naturalistic dramaturgy especially the concept of the ‘play within a play’…

Collaborators / Emma Meehan

Research Fellow Dr. Emma Meehan is a Research Fellow at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research. She received her BA and PhD from the Drama Department, Trinity College, Dublin. Her doctoral thesis focused on how wellbeing and creativity combined in the work of Irish choreographer Joan Davis who works with somatic approaches Authentic Movement and Body Mind Centering. Emma..