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Media and Learning Association

May 2019

7th May 2019
1 min read

Featured Articles

AR & VR

ImmersaSpace supporting Paramedical training in Western Sydney University –

Western Sydney University (WSU) is the 11th largest University in Australia with over 40,000 students. Over the last 3 years they have been building a highly innovative, virtual learning environment for their...

29th April 2019
5 min read
Media Literacy

HTML Heroes – An Introduction to the Internet

Webwise’s newest education programme; HTML Heroes: A introduction to the internet received a European Media Literacy Award three weeks ago at the European Media Literacy Conference in Brussels. Webwise were awarded for...

2nd May 2019
4 min read
Higher Education

flashMOOCs – Exciting topics in interactive educational videos

In the new, interactive video series from the University of Bern, scientific topics of social relevance are explained concisely and vividly. The interactive design of the videos not only increases the attractiveness...

30th April 2019
3 min read
AV Technologies

Media Learning and Data Protection Law

Anyone involved in media production nowadays, whether for education or for any other reason, needs to understand privacy law. We invited Emmanuel Salami who has published articles on data protection law and who works as...

2nd May 2019
7 min read

News

Higher Education

Conference Report – Use of Video in Higher Education: Theory and Practice

A little over 80 people from mostly UK institutions gathered on 16 April 2019 at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School to discuss the different uses of video in higher education.The conference was...

6th May 2019
2 min read
Higher Education

Research into opt-in and opt-out of lecture capture published

An article about research carried out on lecture capture has just been published by Eleanor J. Dommett from King’s College London and her colleagues. This research focuses on the practice of opting in...

3rd May 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

Study finds Finnish students better able to detect fake news than American students

Writing in Quartz, Annabelle Timsit reports on an interesting study which began in 2015 in the US and which was re-visited in 2017 in Finland comparing high school students abaility to detect fake news. The study which...

7th May 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

WebClip2Go exhibiting at Media & Learning Conference in June

WebClip2Go is a highly automated video production system for fast and easy creation of MOOCS. It was developed to simplify the video production process by applying today’s IT technology. Video has traditionally been...

30th April 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

Top 2 innovative universities members of our association!

Surely its more than a co-incidence that the top 2 universities in the Reuters ranking of Europe’s most innovative universities announced today are KU Leuven and the University of Erlangen Nuremberg  – two...

1st May 2019
1 min read
Primary & Secondary Education

ALL DIGITAL Week across 31 countries supported by over 1,500 organisations

The tenth ALL DIGITAL Week 2019 took place 25-31 March and was held under the patronage of Mr Tibor Navracsics, Member of the European Commission, and supported by Liberty Global, Certiport and Google Europe. In...

1st May 2019
1 min read
Balloons
Higher Education

Finalists announced for MEDEA Awards 2019

The organisers of the annual MEDEA Awards are delighted to announce the 6 finalists for the 2019 Annual MEDEA Awards in the user-generated and professionally-produced categories. The finalists (in alphabetical order)...

6th May 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

Kaltura launches annual survey into use of video

Each year, Kaltura surveys thousands of education professionals and students around the world to find out how people are really using video for lecture capture, student assignments, assessments, live broadcasts...

16th April 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

Edinburgh Business School, IHECS and FilmDoo join Media & Learning Association

Its been a busy month for recruitment in the Media & Learning Association Secretariat with 3 new organisational members joining in April. Edinburgh Business School, located in Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have...

3rd May 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

Watch out for compliance issues when adopting AI

Video in Higher Education conference key note speaker and gold sponsor representative, Rob Lipps from Mediasite has been speaking to AVTECHNOLOGY about where AI, AV and higher education intersect. In this article Rob...

4th May 2019
1 min read

Tips and Reviews

AR & VR

Most recent Horizon report forecasts growth in mixed reality and a host of other trends

1st May 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

The Western Balkans’ Sketchy Media Literacy Landscapes

7th May 2019
1 min read
MachineLearning
AV Technologies

AI and the creative industries

1st May 2019
3 min read

Events and Competitions

Primary & Secondary Education

Digital Welcome Project conference 23 May Brussels

Offering a digital welcome is the essence of the Digital Welcome Project methodology. In five European countries, young refugees and migrants learned to facilitate IT workshops on basic programming, digital...

1st May 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

Next Fest of Fests 10-12 June in Athens

After last year’s launching forum, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation is now preparing to host the 2nd International “Fest of Fests” Forum on 10-12th June in Athens.This year’s Forum is organised as a European focus...

23rd April 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

NAMLE 2019 26-28 June Washington, USA

The Conference agenda is now available for the annual conference of the US based National Association for Media Literacy Education. According to conference chair, Dr. Belinha De Abreu, this event will provide an...

7th May 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

SCHOMS Conference 26-28 June in Bournemouth, UK

The annual SCHOMS conference takes place this year in Bournmouth University and will bring together AV managers from universities across the UK. SCHOMS is the professional body for Senior Managers working within UK and...

7th May 2019
1 min read
Higher Education

ICWL 23-25 September, Magdeburg, Germany

ICWL is an annual International Conference on Web-based Learning, founded by the Hong Kong Web Society. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, ICWL has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004...

4th May 2019
1 min read
Media Literacy

Global MIL Week 2019 24-31 October

The yearly Global Media and Information Literarcy (MIL) Week, initiated in 2012, is led by UNESCO in cooperation with GAPMIL, UNAOC and the MIL and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) University Network. It unites diverse...

4th May 2019
1 min read

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