{"id":44345,"date":"2025-12-11T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=44345"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:46:19","slug":"the-role-and-possible-value-of-avatars-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/event\/the-role-and-possible-value-of-avatars-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The role and possible value of avatars in Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Throughout the Higher Education sector, we are seeing a growing interest in the use of avatars. Approaches in evidence include those whereby academic teaching staff are cloning themselves to facilitate student access, as well as practices based on the use of conversational avatars in case-based learning. During this webinar, we will take a look at several teaching practices involving avatars already in operation and discuss their likely value in terms of pedagogical impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/content.media-and-learning.eu\/node\/4255\/lightbox2\" target=\"_blank\" data-lity>Gary Burnett&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>, Loughborough University, UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/content.media-and-learning.eu\/node\/3662\/lightbox2\" target=\"_blank\" data-lity>Marco&nbsp;Toffanin&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>, University of Padova, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/content.media-and-learning.eu\/node\/3049\/lightbox2\" target=\"_blank\" data-lity>Erik Boon<\/a><\/strong>, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,&nbsp;the Netherlands&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/content.media-and-learning.eu\/node\/3859\/lightbox2\" target=\"_blank\" data-lity>Lana Scott&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>, MIT, US<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This event has passed!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentations<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle wp-block-ub-content-toggle-block\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-block-5f33d795-bc80-4521-a792-dfc88ff93f32\" data-mobilecollapse=\"false\" data-desktopcollapse=\"false\" data-preventcollapse=\"false\" data-showonlyone=\"false\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion\" style=\"border-color: #f1f1f1; \" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-block-\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title-wrap\" style=\"background-color: #f1f1f1;\" aria-controls=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-0-5f33d795-bc80-4521-a792-dfc88ff93f32\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title ub-content-toggle-title-5f33d795-bc80-4521-a792-dfc88ff93f32\" style=\"color: #000000; \"><strong>Erik Boon<\/strong>, AI Avatars at VU<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-toggle-wrap right\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-state-indicator wp-block-ub-chevron-down open\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-content-wrap\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-0-5f33d795-bc80-4521-a792-dfc88ff93f32\">\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/AI-avatars-at-VU-ML-webinar-2026-02-26-.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of AI Avatars at VU).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-10baf0c1-5221-43c6-8d23-36f5f3af0de2\" href=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/AI-avatars-at-VU-ML-webinar-2026-02-26-.pdf\">AI Avatars at VU)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/AI-avatars-at-VU-ML-webinar-2026-02-26-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-10baf0c1-5221-43c6-8d23-36f5f3af0de2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44346,"template":"","categories":[275,378],"class_list":["post-44345","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-higher-education","category-xr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45932,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44345\/revisions\/45932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}