5—6 June 2019 in STUK, Leuven, Belgium
Media & Learning 2019 will highlight the latest pedagogical and technical developments in the field of video-supported learning through a highly interactive agenda featuring showcases, discussions, demos, talks and workshops. It will include an exhibition showing the latest technologies, services and tools that universities and colleges can adopt to transform their use of video.
Building on the success of last year’s conference which attracted 283 participants from 22 countries, we are looking forward to a spectacular event where leading experts and practitioners will share their experiences, insights and know-how along with screenings of educational media productions in the conference cinema.
Take a look at the themes for this year’s conference. If you would like to submit a proposal you will find all the information you need here - the closing date for submissions is 21 January 2019.
how the very latest developments in video technology can be put to effective use in universities and colleges
about new approaches, developments and opportunities being realised in higher education
with your colleagues about the challenges you face in integrating video-based approaches in your own institution
some of the very finest examples of video used and produced in higher educational institutions
Alessia Evi-Colombo from the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training will be demonstrating iVideo in the conference exhibition and demonstration space, iVideo is a tool for customising and structuring hypervideo-based learning content education which can be used by teachers and trainers, with no particular computer skills, to customize and structure didactic material for their own teaching or training activity, using existing or self-developed footage and producing their own hypervideos through an intuitive, graphical user interface.
Keynote presenter Jeanine Reutemann is a deeply passionate researcher, media designer and tech-nerd who critically investigates the affordances of new media technologies at Leiden University's Centre for Innovation, while co-managing the start-up company RedMorpheus GmbH. Her current projects range from explorations into mixed reality for education at Leiden University in the Netherlands, educational science videos and VR 360-videos for ETH Zurich and a research documentary film for the R4D program of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Come and take a look at some of the videos produced by language students from the National University of Ireland in Galway which will be shown by Ornaith Rodgers & Labhaoise Ní Dhonnchadha during one of the conference screening sessions.
Thomas Ginn & Jelger Kroese from the Centre for Innovation, Leiden University in The Netherlands will be giving a workshop on how to design an extended reality learning experience based on their approach which is multidisciplinary and team-based.
Tania Dias Fonseca & Anne Preston from Kingston University London will share the results of their study into how students learn with video on and off campus. The results of this study suggest a series of ways to foster more innovative and active ways of learning and teaching with video which will be discussed during their presentation.
Join us in discussing the increasing number of legal and ethical issues facing higher education institutions: what is the impact of EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on lecture capture? Can Higher Education Institutions use evidence from lecture capture to take disciplinary measures against lecturers or students? How will future regulations on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in education and OER affect access to video resources?
Sabine Tan from the School of Education in Curtin University, Australia will be giving a talk about how she and her colleagues have been trialing 360 degree video content that facilitates user-annotations and analytic visualisations in mathematics and science teacher education programs. More about the app they use here.
The Faculty of Pharmacy of the Université de Lorraine in France decided to strengthen the training of its future pharmacists in patient care and counselling on self-medication. For this, they developed a collection of interactive videos cases in a video game. Pauline Thevenot and Gérard Casanova will be sharing their experience of creating these interactive videos which allow students to put their theoretical knowledge into practice and to develop their knowledge and skills.
Riet Callens from KU Leuven in Belgium will be describing how she supports her students self-paced learning of maths and physics by blending video clips and exercise sheets during one of our best practice presentation sessions.
Tiiu Tenno from Oulu University of Applied Sciences in Finland will be presenting the results of her study on the effects of an educational film during the research symposium which is an integral part of the conference agenda.
