October 2022

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Where pedagogy meets media – Media & Learning 2023 on 20-21 June

The annual Media & Learning conference organised by KU Leuven and the Media & Learning Association will take place on 20-21 June 2023 in Leuven, Belgium. This week the organisers launched this year’s event...

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AV Technologies Higher Education

Video feedback and foreign language anxiety in online pronunciation tasks

by Sidney Martin, Anna Espasa, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and Ibis M. Álvarez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Feedback is key in order for students to improve their learning. However, there are many...

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Media Literacy

Unpacking Algorithm Literacy

by Jordan Hill, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). While conducting research for an OECD Education working paper on children’s media literacy, I increasingly came in to contact with the term...

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Higher Education

Why size matters in MOOCs

by Brenda Cecilia Padilla Rodriguez, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico & Alejandro Armellini, University of Portsmouth, UK. Does splitting a longer course into two short ones increase overall completion...

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Media Literacy

Baltic states use MIL to fight for their democratic futures

by Auksé Balčytienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. Just a couple of decades ago, researchers from media studies and political science spoke optimistically about the positive effects of the new digital...

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Higher Education Professional Development

Students as partners in staff development and learning design. Experiences from Europe and the US

by Alexandra Mihai, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Facilitating meaningful learning experiences is the core goal of educational development professionals, both individually and in teams, often within structures...

6 months ago

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Media Literacy

Hopes and hurdles: European teachers’ struggle to tackle digital literacy in the classroom

by Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck & Adeline Brion, Lie Detectors, Belgium ; Data analysis by Adeline Brion, Margit Langenbein & Sinem Sahin. Recently, with the onset of the global Covid pandemic, policy-makers...

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Removing the Boundaries of Geolocation from Clinical Simulation Using Extended Reality

AR & VR

Removing location boundaries from clinical simulation using XR

Dr. Jonathan Martin, Clinical Simulation Lead of Cambridge University Hospitals and Patricia Ramos, MD, MCRP, Medical Director of Simulation at Kaiser Permanente NW, co-facilitated a clinical simulation where two...

6 months ago

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AV Technologies Media Literacy

HackShield Future Cyber Heroes: Our Heroes. Our Future.

by Tim Murck, HackShield, the Netherlands. Learning to interact safely on the internet is a challenge. Think of the growing amount of phishing mails, Whatsapp scams and stolen passwords. But when do you actually learn...

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News

Higher Education M&L Association Projects

Places still available for Hackathon on Intellectual Property Rights

The Media & Learning Association is organising a 2 part hackathon in collaboration with Dublin City University as part of a comprehensive capacity building course on digital education strategies. In two short...

6 months ago

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AV Technologies Higher Education

Discover how Centres for Teaching & Learning involve students in staff training on 13 October

Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLTs) provide expert advice and support to faculty members across their institutions. However, oftentimes due to limited staff members and time constraints, organising training...

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Media Literacy

SMILES Workshops for Teachers and Librarians on disinformation prove popular

Media & Learning organised a series of workshops on Disinformation from 7 September to 10 September 2022 aimed at librarians, teachers and youth workers as part of the SMILES Project. The workshops took place in...

6 months ago

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Media Literacy

Register for MLA4MedLit Conference on Teacher Education in Digital Media Literacy – 19 October

The Media & Learning Association is organising a one-day online conference on the topic of Teacher Education in Digital Media Literacy on 19 October 2022 from 09:30 – 17:00 CEST. This event is associated with...

6 months ago

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Higher Education

€72 million euros available for staff exchanges, the call will open on 6 October 2022

The European Commission will fund at least 71 Staff Exchanges projects with a budget of €72 million. This will enable the support of research staff mobility from one to twelve months in total per staff member...

6 months ago

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Media Literacy

MLA to launch major new project on teacher education in digital and media literacy

The Media & Learning Association (MLA) is delighted to announce that its proposal to the European Media and information Fund (EMIF) called TeaMLit has been successful. As well as MLA, TeaMLit involves the following...

6 months ago

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AV Technologies Higher Education

Leverage AI technology to enhance video engagement in learning environments

Video usage in learning environments has dramatically expanded over the past two years, which is pushing academic institutions to re-think their content development strategy. Cutting edge advancements in artificial...

6 months ago

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AV Technologies Higher Education

New survey explores use cases for video in higher education

With almost every aspect of education—from pre-K to higher education to on-the-job training—disrupted over the past few years, companies in the streaming industry rose to the challenge of delivering education over...

6 months ago

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Higher Education

MLA welcomes Copenhagen Business School as our newest member

The latest organisation to join the Media & Learning Association is Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark’s largest educational and research institution within the general business administration and economics...

6 months ago

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Higher Education

Opening of 2023 Erasmus+ European Universities call comes with record budget

This new Erasmus+ call for proposals will continue the rollout of the European Universities initiative with a record total budget of €384 million. The call is structured around two topics, namely intensification of...

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Tips and Reviews

Professional Development

Podcast series covering schools, higher education and lifelong learning

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AR & VR

iLRN2022 Full Practitioner Proceedings available

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AV Technologies Schools

Practical toolkit for teachers on 3d-printing

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Screenloop for interviews via Zoom

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Openverse search engine

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Events and Competitions

AR & VR

STEREOPSIA, 17-19 October in Brussels, Belgium

Stereopsia is the gathering of entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, scientists, and audiences seeking new voices and fresh perspectives on XR since 2009. This year the 14th annual conference will take place from...

6 months ago

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AV Technologies

EdTech Next Summit, 24-25 October in Bielefeld, Germany

The EdTech Next Summit brings European EdTech companies and Start-Ups together with investors, tech companies, supporters and political actors from more than 20 European countries. The event is expected to attract...

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Media Literacy

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 24-31 October 2022

Global Media and Information Literacy Week, commemorated annually, is a major occasion for stakeholders to review and celebrate the progress achieved towards Media and Information Literacy for All. This year...

6 months ago

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Professional Development Schools

EdReNe Seminar, 9-10 November in Dublin, Ireland

EdReNe is a network of European repository nodes and stakeholders dedicated to the development of recommendations and exchange of expertise. The networks’ activities are sponsored by a group of European Ministries...

6 months ago

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Professional Development

Week of VocTech (hybrid), 14-18 November in London, UK

The #WeekofVocTech is a free programme of in-person and online events exploring the role of digital technology in vocational training and celebrating its impact on learners, employers, training providers and society as...

6 months ago

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Higher Education

EDEN 2023 Annual Conference, 18-20 June in Dublin, Ireland

The next European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) Annual Conference will be held in Dublin on 18-20 June 2023. The event will be hosted by the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) in...

6 months ago

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