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December 2020

7th December 2020
1 min read

Featured Articles

Higher Education

How a Reluctant Online Teacher found Joy, Purpose and Adventure Teaching Online

This is how I spent most of my first year teaching online. Like nearly every other faculty member in the world, I had to quickly transform my class from in-person to online. As for many others, this was my...

26th November 2020
5 min read
Media Literacy

Media literacy in the Baltics: Different approaches in neighbouring countries

Join us on Wednesday 9 December at 15:00 CET for our monthly Wednesday Webinar series on media literacy when the spotlight will be on the Baltic countries. This series is run by the Media & Learning Association and...

6th December 2020
6 min read
AR & VR

Virtual Cinematic Reality for medical education – Cinematic Rendering combined with Microsoft HoloLens 2

Cinematic Rendering (CR) is a physically based volume rendering method that produces jaw-dropping photorealistic 3D images of medical imaging data, take a look at these two images as examples. The data is retrieved from...

1st December 2020
4 min read
Media Literacy

Rethinking the future of Film Education in a changing world

Film education is, in itself, a discipline and a field of action. This means that, by definition, film education imposes on itself a regular and constant revision of its approaches and methodologies according to...

26th November 2020
7 min read
Media Literacy

How does media literacy change our societies & where do we need to take it next? The EAVI Conversations 2020

As our lives are more and more taking place online, the EAVI Conversations 2020 were a good opportunity to spotlight the challenges, opportunities and most recent developments of media and online technology together...

3rd December 2020
5 min read
Higher Education

New topics and formats – Media & Learning Online 18-19 November

The November edition of Media & Learning Online differed quite a bit from our first online event in June 2020 and was designed as a way to test out several aspects of a format that we plan to repeat in 2021 as well...

3rd December 2020
7 min read
AV TechnologiesHigher Education

The trick with all this ‘pivoting’ and ‘shifting’ is to not fall over…

At the start of 2020, in common with all such support units, I, along with the rest of the team in the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT) in NUI Galway in Ireland, had been working away at improving...

5th December 2020
4 min read

News

Media Literacy

Get Your Facts Straight – how a media literacy project is adapting to Corona

“Get your facts straight ‘ is the title of an EC supported project that provides media literacy education to students and young people from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as to...

28th July 2020
1 min read
Higher EducationSchools

Webinar recording of Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 available from EDEN

The European Commission recently adopted the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 to address the challenges arising from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the longer-term digital transformation. EDEN organised a...

26th November 2020
1 min read
AV TechnologiesHigher Education

Education in 2021 and Beyond

Join Panasonic’s online event on 10 December and explore how you can deliver high quality blended learning by choosing the right technology. Across Europe, higher education institutes need to offer a balance of online...

1st December 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

European Film Factory providing tools and inspiration

European Film Factory provides a platform for film education aimed at students ad teachers across Europe. Supported by the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, it is led by the Institut français in...

3rd December 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

What if Education… podcast series from CfI

This podcast series from the Centre for Innovation, Leiden University in the Netherlands takes a slightly unorthodox approach to education. During each episode, the host Monika Theron, invites her guests to share their...

3rd December 2020
1 min read
Media Literacy

EduMediaTest under development to support Media Education

Audiovisual media regulators and public institutions in seven countries are currently developing EduMediaTest, an interactive digital tool to evaluate and improve media education for European pupils aged 14 to 18. The...

4th December 2020
1 min read
AR & VR

Plumpton College explains its re-think on immersive learning

Plumpton College in the UK has been a leading light in its use of AR and VR in practical course content. But since covid, its learning technology team have had to re-consider their approach as they watched their VR...

4th December 2020
1 min read
Professional Development

Video casebook supporting integration of young migrants and refugees

In a recent blog post in the EPALE website, the European VIC project reports on its training programme that supports the integration of young migrants and refugees – especially in terms of training and work. The...

7th December 2020
1 min read

Tips and Reviews

AV Technologies

Mibo video chat option for informal meetings

4th December 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

View on University of the Future from University of York

4th December 2020
1 min read
AV Technologies

State of Video in Education 2020 report available from KALTURA

26th November 2020
1 min read

Events and Competitions

Higher EducationSchools

Third European Education Summit: Digital Education Transformation 10 December

The Third European Education Summit organised by the European Commission provides the opportunity to stakeholders, including national education ministers, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and representatives of...

3rd December 2020
1 min read
AR & VR

12th virtual edition of Stereopsia 15-16 December

Stereopsia is an international forum dedicated to immersive technologies and content. In 2020, Stereopsia goes virtual! As planned for the physical event, the 12th edition of Stereopsia will take place on 15-16...

16th October 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

ALT’S Online Winter Conference 15-16 December 2020

ALT’S Online Winter Conference “Celebrating Learning Technology practice, research and policy” is going to take place 15-16 December. The full two-day programme will feature speakers from across...

26th November 2020
1 min read
Schools

Webinar on Multilingual Classrooms 7 January 2021

The European VirtuLApp project’s next webinar on teaching in Multilingual Classrooms takes place on 7 January. Organised together with UCLL in Belgium, this event is open to anyone interested in teaching in...

3rd December 2020
1 min read
AR & VR

iLRN 2021 Virtual Conference May 17-June 10, 2021

The 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2021) will be an innovative and interactive virtual gathering to strengthen the global network of researchers and practitioners...

26th November 2020
1 min read
Higher Education

Adobe launches Digital Edge Award – deadline 31 May 2021

This award is open to students to submit a piece of work that was produced as part of an assignment for their studies that they think exemplifies digital literacy – and that was created using Creative Cloud. They can...

4th December 2020
1 min read

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