November 2025

October 27, 2025

Highlights from the 2025 MLA4MedLit conference

By Chloé Pété, Project Officer (Digital and Media Literacy), Media & Learning Association, Belgium. At a time when public discourse, political engagement, and even our everyday relationships unfold…

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Lifelong Learning

October 31, 2025

Event report: assessment in the age of generative AI

by Kamakshi Rajagopal, Media and Learning Association, Belgium. As Generative AI takes a foothold in our technology systems, assessment of learning has become a critical point in higher education…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

November 3, 2025

Event report – Reframing reality: the ethics of a shared world

by Ahmed Yousof, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, US. As Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshape how we see, learn, and connect, educators face a new ethical…

• Higher Education
• XR

October 7, 2025

Escape Fake: how AR turns fact-checking into an adventure

by Jacqueline Rother, the German Press Agency (dpa), Germany. A classroom transforms into a stage for an augmented reality adventure. Students point their phones at walls and floors…

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Primary and Secondary Education
• XR

October 23, 2025

SURE VFT: Inclusive and resilient surveying engineering education via XR-based learning solutions

by Charalampos Georgiadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Field training is a cornerstone of surveying engineering education. I can speak from experience as a professor in the…

• Higher Education
• XR

October 30, 2025

Social media influencers: the digital defenders of our democracies

By Alyssa McIntyre, Aspen Institute Germany. Disinformation poses a profound threat to democracies by eroding trust in institutions, polarising societies, and undermining informed public debate.

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Lifelong Learning

October 29, 2025

The impact of GenAI on inclusive learning communities

by Rachel Forsyth, Lund University, Sweden and Claire Hamshire, University of Salford, UK. Regular readers of the Media and Learning blog don’t need to be reminded of the impact of Generative AI…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

October 30, 2025

SURF Tech Trends report 2026

by Dorien Slot, Josje Spinhoven and Tim van Eijl, SURF, the Netherlands. What are the biggest future digital trends for education and research? Together with education and research institutions in the…

• Artificial Intelligence
• AV Technologies
• XR

November 3, 2025

The Blueprint: a model of cognitive triggers & vectors of disinformation

by Andy Stoycheff, NTCenter, Bulgaria. The Blueprint is a model for educators and analysts that suggests the principal triggers (activation points) and vectors (mechanisms of action) that affect our…

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Lifelong Learning

October 29, 2025

New publication: AI in higher education innovation exchange

by Sandra Abegglen & Barbara Brown, University of Calgary, Canada. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming higher education – but while much of the global conversation focuses on policy and…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

September 29, 2025

IBC2025 Amsterdam: agents, conductors, orchestration

by Mathy Vanbuel, ATiT, Belgium. The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC2025), held in Amsterdam from 21 to 24 September, once again confirmed its reputation as one of the world’s leading…

• AV Technologies