Students are submitting assignments, creating portfolios and gaining digital skills with Coventry.Domains
Coventry.Domains gives students and educators the opportunitiy to create and assess work in a new way - aimed at preparation for life and work in a global, digital world.
It’s available for free to all Coventry University Group staff and students.
It’s available for free to all Coventry University Group staff and students.
“Coventry.Domains has been a USP of my MSc Enterprise and Innovation course: it plays an integral role in the students’ enterprise upskilling.”
Lara Bellini
Senior Lecturer - Enterprise and Innovation MA Programme
90%
Percentage of jobs that will require digitial skills within the next 15-20 years
Source: UK Skills Funding AgencyWhy put yourself online?
In a digital world, your online presense can show employers, colleagues and clients what you know and give them confidence in you. Publishing online doesn’t just develop your skills - it helps the world to believe in you.
Coventry.Domains for Students
Why teach with Coventry.Domains?
Showing students how to develop their professional portfolios and other web projects improves digital literacy, information literacy, peer learning, teamwork and other skills employers demand.
Coventry.Domains for Educators500+
The number of new WordPress sites being built every day. On average, 17 posts are published every second.
Source: Kinsta“Having the opportunity to develop a Coventry.Domains site has provided me with a unique and creative platform to showcase my work throughout my degree whilst teaching me new and invaluable skills.”
Diya Chopra
BA English Student
Increased Engagement
Students who are asked to submit assignments to an open learning resource such as Wikipedia or a class or public blog often show increased levels of participation.
Portfolio Creation
Coventry.Domains can be used to create professional portfolios to evidence achievement throughout university and showcase knowlege and skills for employers and collaborators.
Skills Development
By creating something online, students and educators can develop 21st century skills including visual communication, writing for the web, and information and copyright literacy.
A Domain of One’s Own
Coventry.Domains began as a Domain’s of Own (DoOO) project.
Starting at the University of Mary Washington, the DoOO initiative is aimed at giving individuals control of their online presence and improving their digital citizenship. With the help of our partners at Reclaim Hosting, similar programmes are being run at universities around the world.
Starting at the University of Mary Washington, the DoOO initiative is aimed at giving individuals control of their online presence and improving their digital citizenship. With the help of our partners at Reclaim Hosting, similar programmes are being run at universities around the world.
Ideas from students and educators - all in one shared space
Anyone using Coventry.Domains to blog can choose whether their posts appear in this shared space. In this way, students, educators and other staff memebers are able to contribute their ideas and reflections into a single learning community - without hierarchy or institutional boundaries.
Coming soon!- Homeless Monopoly on the BBCby Noah Mitchell on October 13, 2020
We’re pleased to see Homeless Monopoly (a project developed here in the DMLL – in partnership with the University of Warwick, Coventry Cyrenians and […]
- Book Now for the Coventry.Domains Workshopby Noah Mitchell on October 8, 2020
Coventry.Domains Workshop – October 14 2020 Are you interested in publishing a blog, portfolio, research project website or something else online? What about […]
- #RemixPlay4 – moving to 2021 :(by Noah Mitchell on September 23, 2020
We’re sad to announce that we won’t be hosting Remix Play 4 this year. As we all know, 2020 has not been business as usual. While we were originally […]
- Coventry EduHackathon 2020by Daniel Villar-Onrubia on August 18, 2020
This summer, in the context of the Erasmus + project EduHack.eu, we organised the Coventry EduHackathon 2020 – co-hosted by the Disruptive Media Learning Lab […]
Need more help?
We’ve put together a support section with information on registration, site creation, troubleshooting tips and more to help you if get stuck using Coventry.Domains.
Coventry.Domains Support
