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Media and Learning Association

January 2021

6th January 2021
1 min read

Featured Articles

AR & VR

COSMO – figuring out the full learning potential of AR and VR

Many educational researchers and practitioners appreciate Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) as promising tools to cognitively support learning processes. One of the strengths of AR in terms of learning...

22nd December 2020
5 min read
Media Literacy

Start2Think, but also Start2 check!

Project START2THINK is dedicated to strengthening media literacy and building European citizens’ resilience to disinformation. Its aim is to alert Internet users to possible disinformation activities...

5th January 2021
4 min read
Higher Education

Why Maryam Tsegaye’s prizewinning video is so important for online learning?

The main reason this video is so important for online learning is that Maryam demonstrates so well many of the educational affordances of video, and shows what a powerful teaching medium video can be when used properly...

4th January 2021
3 min read
Media Literacy

Media literacy alive and well in Catalonia thanks to CAC

The new media services and video-sharing platforms have brought about significant shifts in the trends for audiovisual content consumption. These content services, that are here to stay, are also contributing to an...

4th January 2021
4 min read
Image of a group of young people making a film, with one person taking a photo of the film crew, one holding the camera and another holding up a light reflector.
Lifelong Learning

Develop soft skills with eLene4Life’s MOOC

We hear a lot about how soft skills are important in today’s job market, but it’s often hard to pin them down. And as teachers, how do we design learning to help our students develop such skills?The eLene partners have...

6th January 2021
3 min read
Media Literacy

Baltic MIL Summit: strengthening MIL networks between Baltic countries

The first Baltic MIL summit which took place on 26-27 November 2020 attracted more than 100 media and information literacy professionals and practitioners. Most of whom were from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but a few...

23rd December 2020
4 min read

News

Media Literacy

Spotlight on Media Literacy in Croatia

Join our Wednesday Webinar on 20 January at 15:00 CET when the spotlight falls on the media literacy scene in Croatia. This webinar is open to all and will include an overview of the current media literacy policy...

6th January 2021
1 min read
AV TechnologiesHigher Education

The University of Oxford installs their fourth Rapidmooc studio

Just over two years ago, the University of Oxford were on the hunt for a solution that would offer them an “an on-campus space where lecturers, staff and students could create videos for internal and external purposes...

17th December 2020
2 min read
AV Technologies

A complaint against five online test-proctoring services filed

According to the American technology news website The Verge, The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has recently filed a complaint against five online test-proctoring services: Respondus, ProctorU, Proctorio...

17th December 2020
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

Edutopia identifies the 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020

Edutopia has reviewed hundreds of educational studies in 2020 and highlighted 10 of the most significant—covering topics from virtual learning to the reading wars and the decline of standardised tests. Although much of...

17th December 2020
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education publish report on virtual learning best practices

This report summarizes the existing evidence on virtual learning in K-12 education in the US and discusses what is known about the efficacy of specific virtual learning strategies and “best practices” in virtual...

10th December 2020
1 min read
OE(M)RPrimary & Secondary Education

Open Education as a game changer – stories from the pandemic

Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland has recently published their study that presents examples of positive initiatives and changes in education originated as a reaction to the closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic...

17th December 2020
1 min read
Lifelong Learning

The 2021 Global Learning Landscape: an open-source taxonomy for the future of education

Holon IQ in the US has recently published The 2021 Global Learning Landscape – an open-source taxonomy for education innovation, providing a common structure and language for identifying, tracking and making sense...

17th December 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

European MediaCoach Prototype is published!

MediaCoach programme is a successful Dutch National MediaCoach programme that was implemented in five more European countries: Cyprus, Romania, Portugal, Greece and Bulgaria. EAVI Media Literacy for Citizenship has...

4th January 2021
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

Latest edition of Comunicar available

The latest issue of Comunicar, a media education research journal was published recently. This is a quarterly, bilingual Spanish-English research journal, with Chinese and Portuguese abstracts. The title of this...

6th January 2021
1 min read
AV TechnologiesHigher Education

Call for inputs to AJET journal on Emerging Technologies

AJET, the Australasian Journal of Education Technology is planning a special issue on Emerging Technologies in Education for Innovative Pedagogies and Competency Development. Submissions are welcome before 1 April 2021...

6th January 2021
1 min read
AV Technologies

AETM Joins Media & Learning Association

AETM is a leading voice for audiovisual professionals working in Higher Education in Australia and we are delighted to announce that AETM has recently become a networking member of our association. Scott Doyle from...

6th January 2021
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

Discover how to integrate Europeana into your teaching

Composed of the 30 best contributions in the 2020 Europeana Education Competition, this booklet has been designed for teachers and educational stakeholders as a prime example of the use of Europeana’s content. Carefully...

6th January 2021
1 min read

Tips and Reviews

Jingle Palette
AV Technologies

Jingle Palette Yee Haa!

6th January 2021
1 min read
AV Technologies

Gather.town – a virtual place to gather while staying at home

17th December 2020
1 min read
AR & VR

Mozilla Hubs – an immersive virtual social experience

17th December 2020
1 min read

Events and Competitions

Primary & Secondary Education

BettFest! 20-22 January 2021

Instead of the annual Bett event in London in January, this year the organisers will be running BettFest – a virtual festival of education based on a variety of topics including Leadership; Digital Inclusion and...

18th December 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

Promoting Media Literacy in the Documentary Age Webinar 27 January 2021

The 24th Annual Frame Documentary Film Festival invites all educators to their online event entitled “Teach the Teachers | Between Truth & Reality: Promoting Media Literacy in the Documentary Age” which...

17th December 2020
1 min read
AV TechnologiesHigher EducationPrimary & Secondary Education

No time to wait! Conference 17-19 March 2021

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision will host the fifth No Time to Wait conference, a FREE three-day conference focused on open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation managed by MediaArea...

10th December 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

EDULEARN21, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 5-7 July

EDULEARN21, the 13th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) from 5-7 July, 2021. For the last 12...

5th January 2021
1 min read
Higher Education

EDEN 2021 Annual Conference 22-26 June, Madrid, Spain

The 30th EDEN Annual Conference will take place in Madrid, 22-26 June. The topics of the conference will include learner centredness in education, the evolution of ODL, through online to blended learning and the...

5th January 2021
1 min read
Higher EducationPrimary & Secondary Education

Serious Games Awards: deadline 9 February 2021

The entry deadline for the 2021 International Serious Play Awards is Tuesday, Feb. 9,2021. This competition honors game-based learning games, either digital or tabletop, for use in the Military, Government, Business...

6th January 2021
1 min read

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