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Media and Learning Association

December 2019

4th December 2019
1 min read

Featured Articles

AR & VR

Would you jump off a skyscraper..? Walking the plank in VR

I put on the VR glasses with 360 wrap around audio and stepped into the lift. Through the crack in the doors I could see my progress to the 50th floor. The doors opened. In front of me was a narrow plank. I walked...

18th November 2019
5 min read
Media Literacy

Meeting students in their world makes for better media literacy campaigns in Greece

Media literacy aims to offer young people the competences to connect with others and actively participate in a mediatized society. In this article, I would like to share some of the good practices that we have developed...

27th November 2019
5 min read
Higher Education

Can You Learn a New Language by Watching Movies?

It’s been over 30 years since Professor Stephen Krashen made the bold claim: “We acquire language in one way, and only one way. When we get comprehensible input in a low anxiety environment.”While some experts will...

27th November 2019
5 min read
AR & VR

Virtual reality takes you to places you might never get to in reality

Thanks to recent innovations in hardware, XR technology has become affordable for use in a wide variety of contexts, such as education and workforce training. XR holds the continuum between actual reality and virtual...

28th November 2019
4 min read
Higher Education

Student teachers EDIT videos – just remember – take care of yourself!

The 6th EDIT – Educational Video Challenge was organised from November 20-28. The event took place both online and in several different countries at the same time. The challenge itself, the time frame, the learning...

30th November 2019
5 min read

News

Primary & Secondary Education

How available and useful is digital heritage for education?

That’s a question that Kennisnet and the Digital Heritage Network in the Netherlands have been grappling with recently. A month ago they published an interesting report (in Dutch) on the subject in which they...

14th November 2019
1 min read
Skills for industry, Online training
Lifelong Learning

Skills for industry, Online training – A place for video

In October 2019 the EU published its report “Skills for industry, Online training: promoting opportunities for the workforce in Europe” that collects views from European SMEs regarding the use of (new) learning...

3rd December 2019
2 min read
Higher Education

JAMK in Finland joins Media & Learning Association

The board of the Media & Learning Association is delighted to announce that the School of Professional Teacher Education (SoPTE) in JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Finland has joined the association. SoPTE is...

14th November 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

Latest edition of Journal of Media Literacy published

The latest edition of JMLE which includes a number of highly pertinent research articles and essays is co-edited by Maria Ranieri from the University of Florence, Italy and Elizaveta Friesem from the Media Education...

21st November 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

Launch of EduHack Network to support the competences of academic teaching staff

The new informal EduHack network was launched on 11 November during a webinar hosted by EDEN to launch the European Distance Learning Week. This network is open to all, free to join and ensures network members receive...

22nd November 2019
1 min read
Lifelong Learning

ALL DIGITAL launches Manifesto for enhancing digital competences across Europe

If you agree that education and training on digital skills need a more consistent approach and a cohesive European system of delivery, then consider signing the ALL DIGITAL manifesto to help to maximise its impact. The...

1st December 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

UNINETTUNO trains Mediterranean film directors

UNINETTUNO together with the Permanent Conference of the Audiovisual of the Mediterranean (COPEAM) recently presented a new training approach to enhance media production in the Mediterranean area. This approach is the...

1st December 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

Media literacy in an ever-changing world: Integrate. Gather. Empower.

This flagship event taking place in Zagreb, Croatia on 30 March and 1 April 2020 is jointly organised by the European Commission (DG Connect) and the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Agency for Electronic Media. The...

4th December 2019
1 min read

Tips and Reviews

FlexClip
AV Technologies

Smart and easy online video editor: FlexClip

1st December 2019
2 min read
JISC Digital experience insights survey 2019
Higher Education

JISC Digital experience insights survey 2019

3rd December 2019
2 min read
TEncoder
AV Technologies

TEncoder: 10 points?

1st December 2019
1 min read

Events and Competitions

Higher Education

Pedagogic value of video for learning & lecture recording, 9 January, Liverpool

This North West held Video and Lecture Capture learning event will be hosted by The Centre for Innovation in Education of the University of Liverpool, UK. Participants will get together to discuss and consider the...

22nd November 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

The Art of Living in the Digital Environment – EAVI conference 25 March, Brussels

The EAVI team have announced that their 2020 Conversations will take place on 25 March 2020 at the Cinema Palace, in Brussels. This gathering will provide an opportunity to discuss and reflect on how to develop...

3rd December 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

Call for proposals for OER2020 is now open

Organised by the Association for Learning Technology in the UK, the 11th annual OER conference for Open Education research, practice and policy will take place from 1-2 April 2020, in London, and is themed around Care...

3rd December 2019
1 min read
AV Technologies

B’Smart – European Media Science and Technology Meets Arts, 18-20 May 2020, Dublin

The NEM Summit is an international conference and exhibition, organised since 2008 by the NEM Initiative for all those interested in broad area of Media, Content, and Creativity. Over the years, the NEM Summit has grown...

22nd November 2019
1 min read
Lifelong Learning

ICELW 2020 June 10-12, New York

ICEWL, the 13th International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss online learning in the workplace and will be held from June 10-12...

4th December 2019
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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