February 2020

Featured Articles

AR & VR

Roman heritage with the help of VR technology in Sarajevo

During December 2019 we have been promoting an application created within the Roman Heritage in the Balkans project. It is Virtual Reality (VR) storytelling app about Viminacium in Serbia, Aquae S in Bosnia, Dyrrachium...

10 months ago

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Media Literacy

Study published into how MIL can support quality journalism

In December 2019, the Council of Europe published a draft version of the study Supporting Quality Journalism through Media and Information Literacy which was designed to provide context for and evidence to the Committee...

9 months ago

4 min read

AR & VR

Virtual reality brings unique learning analytics

In the first article of this series on learning and training in virtual reality, I demonstrated the affordances of learning in virtual reality. VR brings some unprecedented learning opportunities in which students can...

9 months ago

4 min read

Higher Education

Capturing Conflict: visually powerful yet steeped in meaning

Four countries. Three research projects. An interdisciplinary core team of ten researchers, filmmakers, project enablers and the idea of a synthesis research documentary (68min) on social conflicts. Poster of the...

9 months ago

5 min read

AR & VR

An overview of Immersive VR application in higher education

My co-authors, Tim A. Majchrzak, Jennifer Fromm and Isabell Wohlgenannt and I recently carried out a systematic study of immersive virtual reality applications for higher education which was published in the Computer...

9 months ago

4 min read

News

AV Technologies

Programme available for ISE workshop on Higher Education

If you are planning to take part in ISE in Amsterdam in February, then do consider participating in the AVIXA Higher Education AV Conference which will take place on Tuesday 11 February from 13:00 to 17:00. The...

10 months ago

1 min read

Higher Education

Calling all Lecture Capture users!

If you teach university lectures then Emily Nordmann and her colleagues would like to invite you to participate in a new collaborative study between the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh looking at...

10 months ago

1 min read

Higher Education

AMH in Germany joins Media & Learning Association

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Medieneinrichtungen an Hochschulen (AMH e.V.), the Association of Media Centers in German Universities and the Media & Learning Association (MLA) are delighted to announce that AMH has become...

9 months ago

1 min read

AV Technologies

Ghent University hosts Opencast Community Summit

This year’s Opencast summit taking place in Ghent University is all about taking stock and identifying priorities for the next stage of development. Opencast is a community of developers and university AV...

9 months ago

1 min read

AR & VR

XR4ALL Landscape Report highlights opportunities for AR/VR in Europe

The XR4All project team recently published a report on their analysis of the landscape of immersive interactive XR technologies which they carried out during summer and autumn 2019. This report provides a useful...

9 months ago

1 min read

Schools

Videos available on teaching in multilingual primary schools

VirtuLApp has published two more videos in their series for teachers on successfully implementing multilinguality in their classrooms. The first of these is about making the school a multilingual space and the second is...

9 months ago

1 min read

Media Literacy

New guide to MIL in informal settings

The UNESCO West Africa Regional Office recently published a useful non-formal education guide to media and information literacy for all platforms. The aim of this guide is to provide a basic understating of media and...

9 months ago

1 min read

AV Technologies

PCmag editors name their favourite videoconferencing tools for 2020

According to PC magazine, video conferencing has gone from a travel-saving feature that businesses use occasionally to an indispensable tool for everyday collaboration. In this article they provide the results of their...

9 months ago

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

Higher Education

Gaming for Graduates: Why Video Games Should be Played at University

10 months ago

1 min read

AV Technologies

vMix: mixing, switching, streaming from your desktop

9 months ago

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AV Technologies

AI transforming teaching and learning

9 months ago

1 min read

Events and Competitions

Higher Education

Mobile Learning Week 2020 – 2-6 March, Paris, France

2020 edition of UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week is open for registration. Organised by UNESCO and their partners Mobile Learning Week is an event on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in educational sector...

9 months ago

1 min read

Media Literacy

New Evens Education Prize for Critical Thinking

This year Evens Foundation has launched a new Prize focusing on critical thinking. The new Evens Education Prize aims to highlight the importance of critical thinking not only for education but also for everyday life in...

9 months ago

1 min read

Film Literacy

Reaching a Young Audience conference at BUFF Festival – 25-26 March 2020, Malmö, Sweden

ECFA together with BUFF are organising a conference in Malmö, Sweden at the BUFF film festival during BUFF Industry days. Main topics of discussion include targeting media consumption habits of young people aged 12-18...

9 months ago

1 min read

Higher Education

Widening Participation with Lecture Recording cluster – 3 April 2020, Aberdeen, UK

University of Aberdeen in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow are organising the second meeting of Widening participation with Lecture recording. This second cluster meeting will...

9 months ago

1 min read

Higher Education

EDULEARN20, 6-8 July, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

12th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, EDULEARN20 has announced its call for proposals which closes on 12 March. EDULEARN is one of the largest international education...

10 months ago

1 min read

Higher Education

EC-TEL 2020 – 14-18 September, Heidelberg, Germany

The call for contributions to The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) has been announced. As quality education is an urgent matter today, the theme of the conference this year is Addressing...

9 months ago

1 min read

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