May 2020

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Higher Education

Media & Learning Online to take place on 17-18 June

This two day online conference on scaling up and providing access to video based services in higher education will feature talks and discussions drawing in part on the experiences of universities all over the world in...

5th May 2020

2 min read

Higher Education

Any port in a storm – Emergency Online Teaching at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

The storm hit on March 14th when we started a strict lockdown (no students, no teachers, no staff) and were required to move to 100% online (Spoiler: we are still alive).UP Valencia is a medium-size University in Spain...

30th April 2020

5 min read

AR & VR

European HUB for Extended Reality discussed in The Hague

On March 3rd, the Centre for Innovation of Leiden University in the Netherlands organised a meeting with educators and researchers from twenty institutes for higher education. The subject was the development of a...

6th April 2020

3 min read

Higher Education

Derby’s approach to online teaching in the wake of the Coronavirus

Matt Howcroft, Learning Technologist at the University of Derby, discusses how the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the University has responded to the Covid-19 crisis.Within the space of two...

10th April 2020

4 min read

Media Literacy

Primeiro Plano celebrates its first year of existence

Primeiro Plano is an inter-institutional project in Portugal that networks other projects and independent initiatives situated in the areas of cinema & education and audiovisual. Our partners work through...

10th April 2020

2 min read

AR & VR

AR and copyright: Three issues for developers to consider

Augmented Reality (AR) is an enhanced version of the physical, real-world reality. AR is created with elements that are superimposed by computer-generated or extracted from real-world sensory input such as sound, video...

17th April 2020

5 min read

Higher Education

Copenhagen Business School’s 10 step approach to going digital in times of crisis

Practically every university, school and college is facing the challenge of moving their teaching online. Till Winkler is an Associate Professor of Digitalization and the Associate Dean for Digital Curriculum at...

30th April 2020

14 min read

News

Higher Education

MEDEA Awards announces 2020 Finalists

The organisers of the annual MEDEA Awards are pleased to announce the 7 finalists of this year’s competition.The finalists (in alphabetical order) are: 2’ Minutos para mudar de vida submitted by Ipatimup...

5th May 2020

1 min read

Higher Education

Leiden University MOOCs hit 1 Million total learners milestone

This week Leiden University online learning hit 1 million total learners subscribed on the e-learning platform Coursera. Leiden, which is a member of the Media & Learning Association has extended its online learning...

6th April 2020

1 min read

AR & VR

Funding available for XR research teams

XR4ALL launched the second cut-off date of its open call to provide financial support to XR research teams from start-ups, SMEs, industry, research institutions, and academia to develop XR solutions. A total of €1,44...

6th April 2020

1 min read

Media Literacy

Disinformation Corner on Covid-19

Last week the European Commission launched a disinformation corner under its Coronavirus response website. This web page is available in all languages and content is updated regularly, as new false narratives are...

8th April 2020

1 min read

Higher Education

ICDE launches #learningtogether campaign

In response to the COVID19 pandemic, the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) had launched a campaign, #learningtogether, to aid and assist educators during the Corona Virus Pandemic. The...

6th April 2020

1 min read

AR & VR

5 Free VR Medical Learning Experiences + New Coronavirus Info Hub

Arch Virtual, creators of the Acadicus VR training platform, has announced free access to several VR medical learning experiences, including cardiac anatomy, ECG placement, cardiac electrophysiology, pediatric airway...

8th April 2020

1 min read

Media Literacy

Filmdoo launches new tool to facilitate learning through any film and/or video resource

Filmdoo have launched their new edutainment tool in which they have separated their course authoring and interactive video learning tool from FilmDoo’s main films and platforms. This makes the tool accessible by K...

10th April 2020

1 min read

Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

Europe’s budget for education and training at its lowest

The Lifelong Learning Platform has gathered statistics about countries’ investments in different budget areas. Their interest in particular lay on the budget allocated to education and training. Their comparative...

20th April 2020

1 min read

Lifelong Learning Media Literacy

The Road To Copyright Clarity webinar recording available

In April Renee Hobbs, an author of Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning presented a free webinar The Road To Copyright Clarity consisting of three parts. In the webinar Renee explains best practices...

23rd April 2020

1 min read

Primary & Secondary Education

European Schoolnet and Covid-19

European Schoolnet, the network of Ministries of Education, has moved quickly to enable member Ministries to share experiences and challenges, beginning with an online round table on 18th March 2020 and a series of...

20th April 2020

1 min read

Lifelong Learning

Logitech Remote Work Resources

Logitech has created a page to provide some more remote work tips and resources to help a quick transition to working from home. The site offers recorded webinars with tips for distance working. You can also find...

17th April 2020

1 min read

Media Literacy

Renee Hobbs discusses how media literacy handles distorted science

How do you simultaneously teach critical thinking and protect science? Earlier in April Renee Hobbs and Chris Sperry held a webinar with a discussion focusing on teaching about distorted science. It explained how to let...

28th April 2020

1 min read

Lifelong Learning

OER launches OER4Covid survey

The Open Educational Resources (OER) team has launched a survey to gain a better understanding of the diversity of the community as it responds to the COVID19 pandemic. This survey is an initiative of the OER Foundation...

28th April 2020

1 min read

Media Literacy

MIL Alliance takes action with MIL webinars

The Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) has started a webinar series to increase awareness on misinformation and disinformation online. A better and more critical engagement with...

28th April 2020

1 min read

Media Literacy

Filem’On 2020 announces the Young Audience Award Winner

Just two weeks ago Filem’On, the International Film Festival for Young Audiences, hosted the fifth edition of their Young Audience Award. During the week of the event, members of the Belgian young audience...

28th April 2020

1 min read

Higher Education

KU Leuven Institute for AI

KU Leuven has been active in the field of artificial intelligence for about 30 years already. Leuven.AI, KU Leuven’s Institute for AI, was officially launched this year on 2 March. The institute aims to unite AI experts...

17th April 2020

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

AV Technologies Media Literacy

Facebook announces launch of Messenger Rooms

5th May 2020

2 min read

Higher Education

MOOCs’ digital equity and accessibility study

26th March 2020

1 min read

Higher Education

KU Leuven Report on Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Learning

23rd April 2020

1 min read

Events and Competitions

Higher Education

Widening Participation with Lecture Recording – 15 May 2020, online session

In collaboration with University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, and the University of Aberdeen, QAA Scotland has announced a final meeting of their cluster on widening participation and lecture capture. It will...

23rd April 2020

1 min read

Lifelong Learning

Accessible Online Teaching Webinar – 20 May 2020

In times of increased online presence, how do you make sure that you reach out and support all the students including the ones with more diverse needs? As a part of their online teaching webinar series Digital Learning...

23rd April 2020

1 min read

Lifelong Learning

EDEN ongoing webinar series

EDEN continues their webinar series Education in time of a pandemic #onlinetogether #covid19 experts and practitioners in the field of open, distance, and e-learning. Webinars are around one hour long and take place...

23rd April 2020

1 min read

Higher Education

I-HE2020 28-30 October, Bari, Italy

The annual EADTU conference renamed this year as “Innovating Higher Education” (I-HE2020) conference will take place in the University of Bari, Italy from 28-30 October. The call for proposals has just been...

6th April 2020

1 min read

Higher Education

ICERI2020 – 9-11 November 2020, Seville, Spain

The 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2020) has opened its call for proposal submissions. ICERI is an international education conference which supports the sharing of...

20th April 2020

1 min read

Higher Education Lifelong Learning Primary & Secondary Education

LICE 2020, 8-10 December in London call for papers

London International Conference on Education (LICE) takes place on 8-10 December 2020. The overarching theme of LICE-2020 is “Global Issues in Education and Research”. LICE is an international refereed conference...

25th March 2020

1 min read

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