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January 2019

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January 2019

Featured Articles

Large scale take up of lecture capture at NHL Stenden in the Netherlands

NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences where I work has adopted Distance Learning with Rich Media as a way of supporting our students throughout their complete study. Lecturers are expected to participate in using…

20 December 2018

3 min read

Media Literacy

Media Literacy experts’ group calls on EC to avoid replication and to build on lessons learned

The Media Literacy Expert Group gathered on the 14th of December to discuss proposed activities on Media Literacy in 2019. The Expert Group was hosted by a delegation of DG Connect and DG Communication, under the lead…

26 December 2018

2 min read

Media Literacy

Media literacy in Latvia: the Ministry of Culture’s 6 strands

The Media Policy Guidelines for 2016–2020 and their Implementation Plan (adopted on 8 November 2016) are the first policy planning documents in Latvia that foresee activities for the development of media literacy. …

2 January 2019

4 min read

News

Media Literacy

White Paper: the European media literacy toolkit for newsrooms – Round 1

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Global Editors Network have today published their first White Paper following the Brussels Unconference on Media Literacy organised on November 6 2018. The paper…

12 December 2018

1 min read

Media Literacy

EAVI launches new perspective on Media Literacy

On 11 December 2018 in Brussels, EAVI hosted a conversation, the Art of Living with the Media. The aim of the day was to explore the future of media literacy and global citizenship, and to present a new perspective for…

20 December 2018

1 min read

AV Technologies

Launch of cross-organizational and cross-collection search service

Currently in development and scheduled for release in January, aviary is the result of a collaboration between AVP and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies from Yale University Libraries. aviary will be…

20 December 2018

1 min read

Primary & Secondary Education

Tell Your Story launches guide

The Tell Your Story project was designed to explore the use of digital storytelling and storymapping in education in order to help counter early school leaving. The project partners argue that Storytelling can be used…

20 December 2018

1 min read

Media Literacy

Lie Detectors wins 2018 European Digital Skills Award

2018 came to a happy end for Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck and her team at Lie Detectors with the announcement that they have been awarded a 2018 European Digital Skills Award for their work in Education by the European…

1 January 2019

1 min read

AV Technologies

Lecture capture: Practical recommendations

Dr. Emily Nordmann, Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Glasgow announced the preprint “Lecture capture: Practical recommendations for lecturers and students” and the associated student guide in…

1 January 2019

1 min read

Higher Education

How long should your media be…?

One of the most frequently asked questions in media production is: “How long should this video be?” This blog post by James Cridland makes the point perfectly by example. Cridland writes about the…

1 January 2019

1 min read

Higher Education

Results of study into Australian Students use of web-based lecture technology

The publication of a recent article on the use of web-based lecture technology (WBLT) by Laurie A. Chapin in Victoria University published in AJET (Australasian Journal of Education Technology) makes for interesting…

1 January 2019

1 min read

AR & VR

Virtual reality produces better results than those in video supported and traditional learning settings

Distance-Educator.com carried a recent article about a study comparing the impact of traditional, VR and video based learning settings. The learning materials used the same text and 3D model for all conditions. Each…

1 January 2019

1 min read

Higher Education

Potent Pedagogic Roles for Video

Jack Koumi published an abbreviated version from a much longer paper entitled, “Learning Outcomes afforded by self-assessed segmented Video-Print combinations” which was published in 2015. In this version he…

1 January 2019

1 min read

AV Technologies

Digital Learning Capture at CCCU

Canterbury Christ Church University adopts the term “Digital Learning Capture” (DLC) to refer to the recording of content both inside and outside the classroom in a somewhat broader concept than “lecture…

1 January 2019

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

Primary & Secondary Education

Create to learn more online

1 January 2019

1 min read

AV Technologies

FiLMiC released its all new version 6.0

2 January 2019

2 min read

Media Literacy

Media Smart resources popular with UK schools

2 January 2019

1 min read

Events and Competitions

Media Literacy

9th UNESCO MIL Conference Gothenburg 24-26 September 2019

The 2019 UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Feature Conference will be hosted by the county council Region Västra Götaland together with the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO. Gothenburg is hosting the…

1 January 2019

1 min read

Media Literacy

Film Education Conference, Tallinn 10-11 January 2019

FAME, Take 1. Film and Media for Education is the title of this two-day conference in Tallinn, Estonia with hands-on workshops and inspiring talks by international experts that address 21st century skills such as…

1 January 2019

1 min read

AV Technologies

2019 OPENCAST SUMMIT ETH Zurich

The annual Opencast conference will be hosted from 16 to 18 January 2019 at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Opencast is the free,open-source software for automated video capture, processing, managing, and distribution widely…

2 January 2019

1 min read

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