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Media and Learning Association

April 2019

9th April 2019
1 min read

Featured Articles

AR & VR

LectureCast and Immersion – Why 360° Video is (not) the solution

The use of audiovisual media serves different purposes at various stages in teaching and learning environments. The most frequent implementation scenarios include the illustration of content and action, and...

8th April 2019
6 min read
AV Technologies

“Hey Siri, what time is it in Leuven” “Alexa what is the weather today in Belgium?”

For some of us those phrases sound like every day used sentences. Siri calls granddad, Alexa will predict rain during the football training and so on. Our children are not really surprised that a device understands what...

11th March 2019
2 min read
Media Literacy

Media Mistakes? Award-winning project puts the spotlight on media ethics (and mistakes)

In the age of fake news and information overload, the role of journalism has been blurred. The audience is bombarded with messages from vloggers from Youtube, bloggers from the internet and of course traditional media...

29th March 2019
4 min read
Higher Education

Building an eLab for video production, it can be so easy

There’s no way around it: you must use videos in your teaching today. One way to do this is to rely on existing materials: there is a plethora of learning videos to be found on open platforms, such as youtube or the TIB...

21st March 2019
3 min read
AV Technologies

Enhancing learning through accessible lecture recordings

People with a hearing impairment can benefit from captioning of speech and sounds in videos and people with a visual impairment can benefit from audio description of images and actions in videos. Captioning and audio...

17th March 2019
5 min read
Higher Education

We need more research based evidence for our new teaching tools

It is widely accepted that today’s students and their learning habits are different than their parents. Most educators recognise that today’s students need more group work, more problem solving in classes and more...

4th April 2019
3 min read

News

Higher Education

Register now for the Media & Learning Video in Higher Education Conference

So far learning technologists, educational media producers, academics, technical staff, researchers, advisers and hosts of other university staff from 16 countries have signed up to take part in the next Media &...

4th April 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

Meet AUNEGe: supporting educational media production, pedagogy and practice in management and economics

A founding member of the Media and Learning Association, AUNEGe is the French digital university for economics and management. France doesn’t have an Open University, but it does have a very strong OER movement, in...

29th March 2019
4 min read
Media Literacy

Winners of Media Literacy Awards announced

The winners of the European Media Literacy Awards 2019 were announced earlier this week during the European Media Literacy Conference event in Brussels. Giuseppe Abbamonte, Director for Media Policy at DG Connect...

23rd March 2019
2 min read
Media Literacy

Does European Media Literacy Community want a library/learning centre?

At last week’s joint meeting of the European Commission’s Media Literacy Expert Group and the AVMSD Contact Committee there were two main points up for discussion. The first was on the development of common principles...

25th March 2019
2 min read
Media Literacy

Short Report by UNESCO GAPMIL European Sub-chapter Mediterranean Group Action on MIL

The National Centre of Audiovisual Media & Communication – EKOME SA and the Greek Ministry of Education, Research & Religious Affairs, Department of Educational Radiotelevision & Digital Media co...

4th April 2019
2 min read
Media Literacy

What’s the role of civil society in building citizens’media literacy?

Many of the NGO’s who participate in the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens Programme took part on 2/3 April in the Europe for Citizens conference in Brussels. Entitled ‘History Defines our...

4th April 2019
2 min read

Tips and Reviews

Higher Education

Students in Australia and New Zealand find video to be the most useful digital tool

8th March 2019
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

Tech4Learning publishes Digital Storytelling kit for the classroom

11th March 2019
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

New survey shows European pupils still lack access to high-speed Internet

23rd March 2019
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

Better Internet for Kids

23rd March 2019
1 min read
AV Technologies

AI in Education on the increase according to HolonIQ survey

9th April 2019
1 min read
Students in HE
Higher Education

UCISA 2018 Survey of Technology Enhanced Learning in UK HEIs

9th April 2019
2 min read

Events and Competitions

Primary & Secondary Education

Next EdReNe Meeting, 28-29 May, 2019

EdReNe is a network of European repository nodes and stakeholders dedicated to the development of recommendations and exchange of expertise. The networks’ activities are sponsored by a group of European Ministries...

23rd March 2019
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

STEM educational video challenge with total prize of €20,000

Europeana has launched an exciting new competition, the European STEM Challenge which is all about bringing cultural heritage to life. This competition is open to individuals or teams of videographers, vloggers...

25th March 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

Difference Day, 3 May 2019 Brussels

Evens Foundation is organising Difference Day as a celebration of freedom of expression and thus diversity in attitudes and opinion. 3 May is World Press Freedom Day, which Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Libre...

3rd February 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

EDEN 2019 Annual Conference, Bruges, Belgium

This year’s annual EDEN conference is organised under the banner ‘Connecting Through Educational Technology to produce effective learning environments’ and takes place from 16-19 June. While the call...

5th April 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

EDULEARN19, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

This 11th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held 1-3 July 2019 and plans to bring together more than 800 delegates from 80 different countries to present their projects...

5th April 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

EdMedia, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

EdMedia + Innovate Learning international conference which takes place 24-28 June in Amsterdam spans all disciplines and levels of education attracting researchers and practitioners in the field from 70+ countries. This...

5th April 2019
1 min read

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