August 2023

Artificial Intelligence Higher Education

Super Fake Safari helps people with mild intellectual disabilities deal with disinformation

by Evelyn Verburgh, Mediajungle, The Netherlands. Disinformation has been around for a long time, but since the advent of social media, its spread has accelerated. New technologies also make fake messages seem more real…

26 July 2023

5 min read

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education

by Benedict du Boulay, Antonija Mitrovic, Kalina Yacef. The widespread arrival of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has brought AI into the spotlight in many areas including education. Governments are…

19 July 2023

3 min read

AV Technologies Media Literacy

Can you escape data? Fostering data literacy in European adult education

by Petros Lameras, Coventry University, UK. Data literacy for Citizenship Data is all around us – in our personal and professional lives. We both provide and use data constantly, when messaging to our friends and…

27 June 2023

5 min read

Digital Media Literacy in EDMO Round Table: BENEDMO

This interview is part of the ”Digital Media Literacy in EDMO Round Table’‘ interview series that is published every month to highlight the work of the 14 EDMO hubs. BENEDMO, Anne Bothmer & Julia…

1 August 2023

11 min read

AR & VR Higher Education

From Empathy to Alterity: Using VR to promote Disability Inclusion in Higher Education

by Ahmed Yousof, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. Enrollment of students with psychiatric disabilities in higher education has been steadily increasing since 2014 in both European and U.S. higher…

27 July 2023

4 min read

Artificial Intelligence Higher Education

Media Literacy Education in Primary Schools in South Korea

by Suann Yi, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. I come from South Korea, famous for BTS, Squid Game, Samsung, fast internet and technology. South Korea, on the rise thanks to its vibrant entertainment industry and…

29 June 2023

5 min read

AI in institutional language learning

by Karin Vogt & Nicole Flindt, Heidelberg School of Education, Germany. Looking at the current discussion on AI, it seems that AI applications on a broader scale only started with the release of Open AI’s ChatGPT in…

1 August 2023

5 min read

EMILE: Empowering Schools in Self-regulation of Media and Information Literacy processes

by Christian Tarchi, Fatbardha Qehaja Osmani, Chiara Pecini, EMILE project team, University of Florence, Italy. In light of major transformations in the way we read, communicate and learn that have occurred in the last…

26 July 2023

5 min read

AR & VR Artificial Intelligence AV Technologies Higher Education

YouNDigital: a scientific roadmap on Youth, News and Digital Citizenship

by Margarida Maneta and Mariana Muller, Lusófona University, CICANT, Portugal. Mapping the predominant themes of scientific papers has the potential to help future research focused on youth, news and citizenship, as it…

17 July 2023

2 min read

News

Media & Learning 2024 : 20-21 June

Save the date for the Media & Learning 2024 Conference that will take place from 20 – 21 June 2024 at the Provinciehuis in Leuven. The conference will bring together a vibrant community of educators…

17 July 2023

1 min read

European Digital & Media Literacy Conference Week, Brussels, 26 Feb – 1 March 2024

Save the date! The EU Digital & Media literacy Conference week is being organised within the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council in the first 6 months of 2024. A three day conference on digital and…

17 July 2023

1 min read

JRC report explores opportunities and challenges of next-generation virtual worlds in the EU

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recently published a report examining the potential benefits and obstacles of next-generation virtual worlds in the European Union (EU). The report covers…

19 July 2023

1 min read

USN, University Michigan & Hanze University of Applied Sciences join MLA

In recent weeks, we have been delighted to welcome 3 new organisational members to the Media & Learning Association. The first is University of Southeast Norway (USN), a large university in the Norwegian context…

25 July 2023

1 min read

Artificial Intelligence Primary & Secondary Education

30 new European University Alliances announced by EC

The EC announced the names of the latest European University Alliances to join the European Unversities initiative. Involving 50 European Universities, these Alliances join the 20 already selected in 2022, giving a…

26 July 2023

1 min read

UNESCO promises policy guidelines on AI and Education

A gathering of more than 40 educational ministers organised by UNESCO recently highlighted the fact that less than 10 per cent of schools and universities worldwide follow formal guidance on using wildly popular…

26 July 2023

1 min read

AR & VR

Submit your XR project by 28 August to IMPULSE Programme

The IMPULSE Programme has opened its call for entries for Cycle II, with the application deadline set for Monday, 28 August, 2023. XR4Europe is organising this European XR Accelerator, aimed at supporting content…

27 July 2023

1 min read

Artificial Intelligence AV Technologies

Ofcom seeks Media Literacy Trainers

As part of Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media work, they plan to train 1,000 UK professionals working with children and young people by March 2024. As a result, they have launched a tender to find organisations who can help…

26 July 2023

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

Midjourney: Dream up your images

1 August 2023

1 min read

Artificial Intelligence AV Technologies

EMIF Annual Progress Report 2022/2023

1 August 2023

1 min read

Vyond Go: Creating an explainer video in seconds

1 August 2023

2 min read

Events and Competitions

ECTEL 2023, 4-8 September in Aveiro, Portugal

The 18th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2023) will take place from 4-8 September in Aveiro, Portugal. The conference theme, “Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures,”…

24 July 2023

1 min read

ALT Annual Conference 2023, 5-7 September, Coventry, UK

The ALT Annual Conference 2023, themed “Looking through the digital lens: 30 years of Leading People, Digital, and Culture,” is set to take place from 5-7 September at The Oculus, University of Warwick, UK…

24 July 2023

1 min read

AR & VR Artificial Intelligence

Innovating Higher Education Conference 2023, 4-6 October, Istanbul, Turkey

The Innovating Higher Education conference organised by EADTU in Istanbul in October focuses on trends and high impact factors in global and European higher education. This year’s theme is:Accelerating towards a…

21 July 2023

1 min read

Serious Play Conference, 11-13 October, Toronto, Canada

The annual Serious Play Conference is open to chief learning officers, training directors from companies, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, the military and government who come to the conference to get a good…

26 July 2023

1 min read

Swissdidac / Worlddidac International Conference, 21-23 November, Bern, Switzerland

Swissdidac / Worlddidac International Fair, under the theme ‘Where Technology meets Heritage,‘ is scheduled to take place from 21-23 November in Bern, Switzerland. This biennial event brings together…

24 July 2023

1 min read