Category Archive for "Digital Pedagogies" | Disruptive Media Learning Lab

Project : CU Domains of One’s Own

26th September 2016
Tags: e-learning, employability, leadership, online learning

Overview Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) initiatives allow students and faculty to register a subdomain (or buy a separate domain) and associate it with hosted web space offered by their universities for free. After leaving university, users have the choice to download a backup of their files and data that may be restored using the..

Blog : Ready to become a Digital Leader?

26th September 2016
Tags: digital leaders, online learning, Social Media

Digital Leaders is a new and exciting opportunity for Coventry University students to develop digital skills and learn techniques to pass those skills on to others. No matter whether you already are digital savvy or not, enrolled in a undergraduate or a postgraduate course, applications from any students eager to increase their own understanding of the digital..

Project : Immersive Telepresence in Theatre

21st September 2016
Tags: international collaboration, online learning, theatre

Project leaders: Dr Tom Gorman, Dr Tiina Syrja, Senior Lecturer in Acting & Dr Mikko Kanninen, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Partners: Coventry University & University of Tampere (Finland) Overview: This project explores international co-operation in acting in a foreign language within a system that promotes a more environmentally sustainable model, eliminating (or at least diminishing) the need to..

Project : Digital Leaders

12th September 2016
Tags: student led learning, student-staff partnership

Overview: CU Digital Leaders is a new student-staff partnership being piloted in 2016-17 with the aim of helping students improve their digital competences, take ownership of their online presence and gain awareness of their own digital identities. Based on peer-to-peer learning, This initiative is a collaboration of the Lanchester Library, the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL), and the Office of..

Blog : What is an Open Badge?

10th August 2016
Tags: Open Badges

Reblogged from CU Open Badges. An increasingly popular means of recognising, rewarding and publicising achievements, skills and knowledge. Open Badges are… “a new online standard to recognize and verify learning”- Mozilla Open Badges earned from multiple sources and collected in a single backpack stackable, allowing earners to build a rich digital identity displayed across social..

White Papers / (Online) Learning Spaces

Author: Jacqui Speculand Foreword: In the spirit of openness, these papers are designed to be fluid in nature, and evolve over time. With this in mind, we encourage you to leave notes, write response posts, and share this paper. The use of technology in learning, and the implementation of web-based learning environments, enhance and extend traditional..

Insights / Digital Pedagogies

The evaluation of the use of digital pedagogies in the lab’s OIL (Online International Learning) modules revealed the following key points through the evaluation process: Delivery of teaching and learning activity Using learning designed to promote online international discussion stimulated students’ critical thinking, problem-solving, team work and intercultural sensitivity Both synchronous and asynchronous internationally mixed..

Blog : Charlie talks Work Experience: Week 5

15th March 2016

by Charlie Legge, student at Coventry University doing his work experience with the lab I’ve had a week off work due to being away, but now it’s back to the grindstone. I’ve completed a rough user guide for Learnium and I’m in the process of reviewing consent forms and surveys as part of the next stage..

Blog : Reblog: Learnium and Office Online tested out at Coventry’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab

22nd January 2016

Reblogged from Microsoft UK Higher Education Blog The following is a guest post from Learnium, examining the work of Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab. Coventry University made headlines in 2015 when it nudged past many of its Russell Group peers to reach its highest position ever in the Guardian league table of universities,..

Videos / Making Lectures More Interactive with Echo360’s Active Learning Platform

Speaker: Sam Hegarty Location: The Grass About the session Sam Hegarty, Project Officer, Business eLearning, University of New South Wales provided some demonstrations of technology-enhanced learning tools that the University of New South Wales are utilising. The University of New South Wales is currently piloting the Active Learning Platform, which is increasing engagement and participation amongst..