April 2026

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Media & Learning Conference – a preview of this year’s agenda

With just over 12 weeks to go to this year’s Media & Learning Conference organised jointly between MLA and KU Leuven, we wanted to tell you more about what’s going to be on the programme this year. The overall theme...

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Artificial Intelligence Media Literacy

AI, classrooms and chaos: why media literacy and parent engagement matter now more than ever

by Dr Laura Zahra McDonald, ConnectFutures, UK. Children and young people are growing up in a complex, often chaotic digital environment, increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, but also by the same forces that...

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Media Literacy

MediaRoboLit 65+ project: New insights on older adults’ robot literacy

by Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen, University of Lapland’s Faculty of Education, Finland. Media and Robot Literacies of People Over 65 Years of Age (MediaRoboLit 65+) is a research project funded by the Research Council of...

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AV Technologies Higher Education

How AI is changing educational media production workflows

From Preproduction–Production–Postproduction to Layered Assembly Production by Markus Tischner, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. Many of us in higher education produce under the same...

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Higher Education

How Zuyd University of Applied Sciences grew their CTL rather than building it!

This interview is part of the new “Centres for Teaching and Learning” series, a collection of interviews exploring the diverse roles and innovative practices of CTLs, presented by the Media and...

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Artificial Intelligence Higher Education

Do our principles for AI in education still hold?

by Julian van der Kraats, Leiden University, the Netherlands. A year after the Fürth Manifesto, the landscape has shifted. The question is whether our foundations have kept up. In March 2025, a group of educators...

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Lifelong Learning Media Literacy

Psychological Defence and Information Influence – a textbook on Theory and Practice

by Johan Österberg, Psychological Defence Agency, Sweden. The following featured article provides a summary of the recently published Manual ‘‘Psychological Defence and Information Influence‘‘ by the Psychological...

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Insights from MLA event on the role and possible value of avatars in Higher Education

by Lana Scott, MIT, US. From virtual reality classrooms to AI-powered simulations and video-based instructors, avatars are rapidly becoming a central feature of modern education. On February 26, the Media and Learning...

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Media Literacy

NewsGuard: Global Leader in Information Reliability; Providing Trust Tools for Media Literacy across Europe

by Hailey O’Connor, NewsGuard, US. NewsGuard, founded in 2018, has become the global leader in information reliability and a trusted information integrity expert. NewsGuard is also a signatory to the Code of Conduct on...

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AV Technologies Higher Education

Lessons learnt over a decade of the EDIT – Educational Video Challenge

by Janne Länsitie, EDIT Challenge Producer. My journey with video pedagogy began in the 80s and 90s with silly home videos of pretty much anything. By my teens, I was exploring cult horror movies (illegal in Finland at...

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Media Literacy

Media-Pop. Interpreting populist narratives through the media

by Giulia Crisanti, La Sapienza University, Italy. Between January and February 2026, at Sapienza University of Rome, we offered a course aimed at high school students on the theme “Media-Pop. Interpreting Popular...

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News

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Welcome to our newest members – elan e.V. and Bochum University of Applied Sciences

This month, the Media & Learning Association is pleased to welcome one new sponsoring member and one new organisational member: elan e.V., Germany and the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Germany. As a non...

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Media Literacy Primary & Secondary Education

Upcoming online event: Media Literacy in action, producing radio and podcasts for young audiences, 22 April

On 22 April 2026 (14:00–15:15 CEST), the Media & Learning Association invites you to join an engaging webinar exploring how radio and podcast production can be used as powerful tools for media literacy education...

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AV Technologies Higher Education

Upcoming online event: Educational podcasting and audio production in higher education, 23 April

On 23 April 2026 (14:00–15:00 CEST), the Media & Learning Association will host an online session dedicated to exploring the role of podcasting and audio production in higher education. This webinar will examine how...

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AV Technologies Higher Education

Upcoming event: Video lifecycle management, archiving and re-using educational video, 28 April

On 28 April 2026 (14:00–15:30 CEST), the Media & Learning Association will host a webinar focusing on the lifecycle of educational video content, from creation to long-term reuse. As institutions continue to produce...

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AV Technologies Media Literacy Primary & Secondary Education

EC Launches 4 sets of guidelines for teachers

A packed webinar on 23 March organised by EDEH provided a great opportunity to showcase four sets of recently published guidelines for teachers supported by DGEAC of the European Commission. This webinar celebrated the...

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Higher Education Media Literacy

TaMeLi – first Teacher Academy for Media Literacy in Europe launched

TaMeLi – Teacher Academy for Media Literacy in Europe: Instigating Teachers to Collaboratively Design for Meaningful Learning in a Media-driven World project officially launches April 1st! This three-year Teacher...

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Higher Education Media Literacy Primary & Secondary Education

Want to check if the images you see are real? Check out VISAVIS’s tips

The partners of the VISAVIS project recently launched an awareness campaign about misleading images which they refer to as visual disinformation. As they say, images and videos often say more than words. Yet they can...

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AR & VR Higher Education

Learn more about virtual exchanges for sustainable education on 20 April

As part of the TREnD webinar series, Session 4 features Hanna Lappalainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) presenting Virtual Exchanges for Sustainable Education: The Cases of ERASMUS+ UNAVEX and CLUVEX Projects. Hanna...

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Tips and Reviews

AV Technologies Higher Education Lifelong Learning Primary & Secondary Education

Bye bye Vimeo, hello Rushes!?

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Higher Education Lifelong Learning

DiTraVET Toolkit to support digital and inclusive education in VET

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AR & VR Higher Education

Uptale, a spatial learning platform for immersive education

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Events and Competitions

AV Technologies Higher Education

Call for submissions: Comenius EduMedia Awards 2026, 12 April 2026

The Society for Pedagogy, Information and Media (GPI) has opened applications for the Comenius EduMedia Awards 2026, recognising outstanding digital educational media worldwide. Established in 1995, the awards are among...

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AV Technologies Higher Education Lifelong Learning Primary & Secondary Education

LEARNTEC – Digital Learning Meets AI, Karlsruhe, Germany, 5-7 May 2026

The e-learning community will meet at the Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center from May 5th to 7th, 2026, for networking and the exchange of experiences. At LEARNTEC – Europe’s leading trade fair for digital education in...

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Artificial Intelligence Primary & Secondary Education

EdReNe 23rd Strategic Seminar to focus on AI in education, Vienna, 21–22 May 2026

The Educational Repositories Network, coordinated through the Future Classroom Lab of European Schoolnet, has announced its 23rd Strategic Seminar, which will take place in Vienna on 21–22 May 2026. This year’s seminar...

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AR & VR

Call for submissions: AVRiL 2026 competition on XR learning scenarios, 31 May 2026

The Gesellschaft für Informatik’s XR-Learning working group has announced the launch of the AVRiL 2026 competition, which seeks to identify and promote outstanding learning scenarios using extended reality (XR)...

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Artificial Intelligence Higher Education

EDEN 2026, Porto, Portugal, 14-16 June 2026

Learning and teaching is no longer defined in the digital age by technology but is shaped by collaboration, co-creation and relational intelligence. EDEN 2026 invites educators, researchers,and institutional leaders to...

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Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

ATEE Annual Conference, Białystok, Poland, 25-28 August, 2026

This year’s annual ATEE conference seeks to address the critical role of teacher education today: on the one hand as a means of responding to the complexities of our increasingly interconnected global landscape...

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