February 2023

Featured Articles

AR & VR Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT and VR – Changing the Way We Learn Soft Skills

by Sophie Thompson, VirtualSpeech, UK.From interviewing for jobs or negotiating sales terms to fielding questions from the press or conducting disciplinary meetings – challenging and nerve-wracking situations...

18th January 2023

7 min read

Media Literacy

Multiliteracy in Brazilian schools: present and future

by Carla Coscarelli, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & Ana Elisa Ribeiro, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brazil.Since at least the 1980s, Brazil has been building a series of documents...

18th January 2023

5 min read

Artificial Intelligence

AI set to be a gamechanger in education

by Peter Andries, Media & Learning Association, Belgium. With the recent release of ChatGPT based on GPT-3.5 and its wide-open access, interest in AI has seen a massive surge now that a broad adoption of AI seems...

27th January 2023

4 min read

Media Literacy

Media literacy in wartime: insights from the Ukrainian national project Filter

by Valeria Kovtun, Head of Filter, Ukraine.In 2021, we launched Ukraine’s first national media literacy body – ‘Filter’. Filter aims to empower Ukrainians, giving them the tools to apply critical thinking when...

3rd February 2023

3 min read

AR & VR

Revolutionising Medical Training with Immersive Technologies: The Benefits of VR and XR in Healthcare

by Tim Collins, Varjo. Immersive technology can help medical personnel prepare and train for the most challenging real-life scenarios. With the advent of high-fidelity Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality, advanced...

1st February 2023

5 min read

Artificial Intelligence Higher Education

ChatGPT workshop for lecturers

by Julia Dawitz & Emma Wiersma, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On January 16th 2023, the Programming Teaching Lab and the Teaching and Learning Centre Science of the University of Amsterdam organised a 4...

27th January 2023

6 min read

Higher Education

Interested in piloting an open online course on online assessment?

by Isabella Dobler, Innovation in Learning Institute/FAU, Germany.Online assessment at higher educational institutions have created many new possibilities to track students’ learning progress or to measure...

29th January 2023

3 min read

Media Literacy

Legal-checking: a new method for fact-checking political discourse

by Jessica Airey, Les Surligneurs, Belgium. Have you ever heard a candidate make an outrageous promise to win an election? Perhaps you doubted whether such a too-good-to-be-true pledge might ever be enacted should they...

7th February 2023

3 min read

Higher Education

The LOTUS project – enhancing L&T through dialogue and peer-learning

by Gohar Hovhannisyan, European University Association (EUA), Belgium.Attention for learning and teaching (L&T) has increased, both among higher education institutions (HEIs) and at national and European policy...

7th February 2023

4 min read

AR & VR

Visual notes from Immersive Tech Week & Online Educa

By Maaike Wessels-Compagnie, Hogeschool Rotterdam, The Netherlands. If you visited the 2022 Online Educa Berlin or the 2022 Immersive Tech Week you may recognise these depictions of XR related talks. Maaike Wessels...

12th January 2023

1 min read

Artificial Intelligence

AI & Accessibility: The present and potential future of automated transcriptions

by Helen Nicholson, Jisc, UK. Automating transcriptions and captions is perhaps one of the most widespread uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in education today. When aiming to increase accessibility, these...

3rd February 2023

6 min read

News

Higher Education

First keynotes announced for Media & Learning 2023

We are delighted to announce the first keynote speakers for the Media & Learning 2023: Where pedagogy meets media conference, which will take place from 20-21 June in Leuven, Belgium! Jeremy Nelson from the...

7th February 2023

1 min read

Media Literacy

Media Literacy on agenda addressing the effect of EU tech regulations during Swedish Presidency conference

A conference on how EU tech regulation affects democratic discourse and media policy was held on 23–24 January in Stockholm within the framework of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Among...

3rd February 2023

2 min read

Higher Education Media Literacy

Join the Media & Learning Association: Special Offer!

The Media & Learning Association has a special offer from January onwards whereby new member organisations (including higher education institutions, national or regional networks, government agencies, NGO’s...

1st February 2023

2 min read

Media Literacy

EMIF 2023 Call for proposals open!

The European Media and Information Fund Calls for Proposals for 2023 is now open for projects in Europe aiming to fight disinformation, on three areas of intervention: Investigations into Disinformation Dynamics ...

2nd February 2023

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Visit advanced learning spaces on 23 February

The Media & Learning seminar entitled “Virtual tours of advanced learning spaces” will take place from 14:00 – 15:30 CET on Thursday, 23 February. During this workshop, we plan to ‘visit’ several facilities in...

3rd February 2023

1 min read

Higher Education Media Literacy

TeaMLit Kick-Off Meeting

TeaMLit, Teacher Education in Digital and Media Literacy: providing guidance, resources and support to teacher trainers in Europe is a project funded by the European Media and Information Fund (EMIF). The two days Kick...

3rd February 2023

1 min read

Media Literacy

SMILES project enters its final phase

The SMILES team recently met on 19 January in The Hague, the Netherlands, the meeting was hosted by The Hague University of Applied Sciences. During the meeting, because the project received an extension of 2 months...

1st February 2023

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Submit your proposal for EUNIS by 6 March

The 29th annual EUNIS congress is going to take place from 14-16 June in Vigo, Spain. Entries are now open for the EUNIS awards for AV enabled learning space. This award is open to all higher education providers...

3rd February 2023

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

Artificial Intelligence AV Technologies

Cleaning up voice recordings with Studio Sound

6th February 2023

2 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Video Trends in Higher Education

7th February 2023

1 min read

AV Technologies

Veed.io, a comprehensive online video editor

6th February 2023

2 min read

Events and Competitions

Primary & Secondary Education

The State of Cybersecurity in K-12 Education (online), 8 February

The State of Cybersecurity in K-12 Education online seminar will take place from 20:00-21:00 CET, on 8 February. This webinar will discuss the recent report (Hillman, 2022) on the state of cybersecurity in education by...

3rd February 2023

1 min read

Higher Education

Digifest 2023 (hybrid), 7-8 March, Birmingham, UK

Digifest 2023 (hybrid) will take place from 7-8 March in Birmingham, UK, and online. Participants will be invited to explore innovations in learning and teaching, research, and senior leadership. The event is aimed at...

3rd February 2023

1 min read

Media Literacy

Australian Media Literacy Summit, Online & in Sydney, 24 March 2023

The Australian Media Literacy Alliance, with the support of META Australia, is hosting a FREE professional development conference in Sydney and online for those who are passionate about supporting lifelong media...

2nd February 2023

2 min read

Higher Education Media Literacy

Practices of Digital In- and Exclusion in Everyday Life Conference, April 3-4, Groningen, The Netherlands

The University of Groningen is organising a conference: Practices of Digital In- and exclusion in Everyday Life, taking place April 3-4, 2023, Groningen, The Netherlands.This conference considers citizens’ everyday...

3rd February 2023

2 min read

Higher Education

EURASHE Conference 8-9 June, Bucharest, Romania

The call for papers for the EURASHE 32nd Annual Conference which will take place 8-9 June in Bucharest, Romania is now open. In her 2022 State of the Union address, the President of the European Commission announced...

1st February 2023

1 min read

Media Literacy

NAMLE, Media Literacy Virtual Conference, 14-15 July 2023

The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) hosts the largest professional development conference dedicated to media literacy education in the U.S.As the preeminent professional development conference...

3rd February 2023

1 min read

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