The Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL), is a cross-university experimental unit comprising of academics, learning technologists, subject librarians, educational developers and researchers. The Lab is based in the heart of Coventry University’s campus in a newly refurbished space on the top floor of the Frederick Lanchester Library, uniquely designed to promote open dialogues, collaborative work and exploratory play for all interested in defining the 21st century university.
Getting Started
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Flipped Learning
Innovative learning practice through active participation
Playful & Gameful
Games for learning, and learning through play
Digital & Networked
Foster competency and engagement in a networked age
Our Strategic Aims
Culture
Drive a culture of open innovation across the Coventry University Group, by expanding and enhancing the distinctive, internationally recognised and sector-leading ethos and approach to higher education innovation, research and development. Helping to make Coventry an international exemplar of best practice.
Behaviour
Stimulate innovation and collaboration by challenging mind-sets amongst key stakeholders in teaching and learning. Champion and evaluate new practices, tools, methodologies, facilitate path finder cross-faculty collaborations and create shared spaces which incubate and nurture future looking ideas and pedagogies.
Change
Positively influence the teaching and learning culture working in partnership across the Coventry University group. Act as a facilitator for constructive, fast-tracked, change across the University and more generally, drawing on developments demonstrated and proven in the Lab.
Agile
Provide enhanced opportunities, space, resources, capabilities and funding for agile experimentation with creative, playful, radical and provocative ideas, models and approaches. Advocate a positive attitude for understanding uncertainty and learning from failure towards fostering new best practices for effective teaching and learning innovation.
Amplify
Identify and sandpit ambitious initiatives that make a real impact on the learning landscape. Explore, repurpose and remix approaches and technologies in order to stimulate new income sources and practices, encourage and ferment exciting new international collaborations.
Pathfinder
Welcome the opportunity to identify early challenges and obstacles that may ultimately impact the University more generally. Explore and mitigate early on, in a single place and within a tightly controlled environment
Recent Activity
The DMLL Wins Big at the Gamification Awards 2020
We’re delighted to share the news that not one, but two of our projects have won awards in two different categories at this year’s Gamification Awards: Software and Gamification in Education and Learning. The 2020 Gamification Awards recognise excellence in many areas...
Funded Places Available at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit for CU Group staff
The 2020 Wikimedia in Education UK Summit will "bring together people using Wikipedia in the classroom and those who would like to learn more about how it works". In the UK alone, there are 18 universities teaching around 25 modules with the use of Wikipedia and its...
The Students Behind Beaconing
The Students Behind Beaconing This week, staff at the lab were pleased to see that the Beaconing Project has been named as a finalist in the 2019 Gamification Awards in the Software category. Beaconing is a digital authoring tool which enables educators to develop...
Upcoming Events
Wikipedia Editing
Description After a short introduction attendees will undertake a number of simple exercises to add and format text, and provide ...
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