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Media and Learning Association

March 2020

2nd March 2020
1 min read

Featured Articles

Higher Education

What do we know about educational videos: research and practice

This is a summary of the key points I made in the webinar on ‘What do we know about effective educational videos’ I delivered on 27 Feb as part of the iSpring series. It is also a record of a work in...

2nd March 2020
10 min read
AV Technologies

My lecturer is a hologram

Regular Media & Learning contributor, Zac Woolfitt from Inholland University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands had his first try at being a hologram recently and wrote about it on his blog. With Zac’s...

27th February 2020
9 min read
AR & VR

Dementia Care and Virtual Reality

The world faces one of the greatest societal and economic global health challenges of the 21st century; dementia. Given that Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly being seen as a transformative technology, in...

26th February 2020
4 min read
AR & VR

Interprofessional VR Simulation: Introducing OMS Interprofessional

OMS Interprofessional is the multiplayer VR simulation platform from Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS). OMS Interprofessional allows multiple learners to be in the same virtual reality scenario at one time, whether...

27th February 2020
3 min read
AV Technologies

Video presentations on the rise at academic conferences

Video provides an increasingly popular alternative for academics to deliver their presentation at an international conference. However, video still being a new format, neither presenters and audiences are completely...

27th February 2020
7 min read
AV Technologies

Holographic Speculation

Senior Educational Technologist Dominic Pates looks to a holographic future for higher education, finding a blooming of possibilities and a similar range of challenges.Sometimes, just asking the right question at the...

2nd March 2020
5 min read
AV Technologies

Color, Arts, Industry: A blended course

With the extended deadline for submissions to the 2020 MEDEA Awards just around the corner on 13 March 2020, we decided to invite one of last year’s finalists, Béatrice Avakian from MINES ParisTech, to describe...

2nd March 2020
4 min read
AR & VR

Immersive Learning Challenges at a Time of Transformation

We are living in a time of transformation from a digitally driven economy, also known as the 3rd industrial revolution to a new type of society, where for the first time in history, humans will no longer be the...

2nd March 2020
6 min read

News

Higher Education

MEDEA Awards 2020 Deadline Extension

The deadline for submitting an entry to this year’s MEDEA Awards has been extended to 13 March 2020. Universities and higher education institutions are welcome to compete for the best innovative teaching and learning...

27th February 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

European MediaCoach plans busy final year

After three years of the research and practice to improve media literacy among young people the European MediaCoach project is coming to an end. The final year of the project will focus on assessment and presentation of...

27th February 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

LMS -Pulse guide to Video Learning Platforms of 2020

LMS-Pulse recently shared a a guide to different video platforms. The options are grouped depending on what you would like to present to students and the kind of engagement you expect from them. To best meet the needs...

27th February 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

How To Fix Democracy

One of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution, Andrew Keen, has recently presented his documentary film in Washington DC and New York. How To Fix Democracy is a 60 minute...

27th February 2020
1 min read
AR & VR

Building a 360 Immersive experience

JISC in the UK is organising a one day course on ‘Building a 360 Immersive VR Experience”in London on 26 March. According to their advance publicity, this workshop will bring particular focus to 360...

28th February 2020
1 min read
AV Technologies

Media & Learning to launch survey into accessibility readiness

The EU Directive on digital accessibility comes into force in September 2020. Later this month, we are planning to launch a survey into how ready universities are to comply with this directive. As you may remember from...

1st March 2020
1 min read

Tips and Reviews

Subly, online video subtitler
AV Technologies

Subtitle videos automatically in minutes

2nd March 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

European approach to AI

27th February 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age

27th February 2020
1 min read

Events and Competitions

Media Literacy

Get your facts straight! 10 March 2020, Brussels, Belgium

ALL DIGITAL is organising a launch event prior to the start of the ALL DIGITAL week to encourage digital inclusion and empowerment. A keynote speech and a panel discussion will address the online disinformation issues...

27th February 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

European Media Literacy Conference 31 March – 1 April, Zagreb, Croatia

Planning for the 2-day conference “Media Literacy in an ever-changing world: Integrate. Gather. Empower” organised by the European Commission along with the Croatian Presidency in Zagreb is almost complete. The...

28th February 2020
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

Comenius-EduMedia-Competition

This year the Society for Pedagogy, Information and Media “John Amos Comenius” (GPI) celebrates its 25th edition of the Comenius-Award. Enter to compete in multiple categories for the best digital educational media use...

27th February 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

New Evens Education Prize 2020 – Last Call for entries

The call for applications for the new Evens Prize for Education remains open. This award welcomes ideas to promote motivation and the ability to think critically about social issues. Entries may vary from practical to...

27th February 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

Filem’On Film Festival contest

The International Film Festival for Young Audiences has announced its 14th edition with a launch of a film contest. Filem’On accepts entries in multiple categories for the best films made between May 2019 and June 2020...

27th February 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

EDEN 2020 21-24 June 2020, Timisoara, Romania

Details of the annual EDEN conference have been announced along with the call for proposals. The theme for this year’s event is “Human and artificial intelligence for the society of the future –...

1st December 2019
1 min read

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