The use of audiovisual media serves different purposes at various stages in teaching and learning environments. The most frequent implementation scenarios include the illustration of content and action, and…
8 April 2019
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The use of audiovisual media serves different purposes at various stages in teaching and learning environments. The most frequent implementation scenarios include the illustration of content and action, and…
For some of us those phrases sound like every day used sentences. Siri calls granddad, Alexa will predict rain during the football training and so on. Our children are not really surprised that a device understands what…
In the age of fake news and information overload, the role of journalism has been blurred. The audience is bombarded with messages from vloggers from Youtube, bloggers from the internet and of course traditional media…
There’s no way around it: you must use videos in your teaching today. One way to do this is to rely on existing materials: there is a plethora of learning videos to be found on open platforms, such as youtube or the TIB…
People with a hearing impairment can benefit from captioning of speech and sounds in videos and people with a visual impairment can benefit from audio description of images and actions in videos. Captioning and audio…
It is widely accepted that today’s students and their learning habits are different than their parents. Most educators recognise that today’s students need more group work, more problem solving in classes and more…
So far learning technologists, educational media producers, academics, technical staff, researchers, advisers and hosts of other university staff from 16 countries have signed up to take part in the next Media &…
A founding member of the Media and Learning Association, AUNEGe is the French digital university for economics and management. France doesn’t have an Open University, but it does have a very strong OER movement, in…
The winners of the European Media Literacy Awards 2019 were announced earlier this week during the European Media Literacy Conference event in Brussels. Giuseppe Abbamonte, Director for Media Policy at DG Connect…
At last week’s joint meeting of the European Commission’s Media Literacy Expert Group and the AVMSD Contact Committee there were two main points up for discussion. The first was on the development of common principles…
The National Centre of Audiovisual Media & Communication – EKOME SA and the Greek Ministry of Education, Research & Religious Affairs, Department of Educational Radiotelevision & Digital Media co…
Many of the NGO’s who participate in the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens Programme took part on 2/3 April in the Europe for Citizens conference in Brussels. Entitled ‘History Defines our…
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…
Europeana has launched an exciting new competition, the European STEM Challenge which is all about bringing cultural heritage to life. This competition is open to individuals or teams of videographers, vloggers…
Evens Foundation is organising Difference Day as a celebration of freedom of expression and thus diversity in attitudes and opinion. 3 May is World Press Freedom Day, which Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Libre…
This year’s annual EDEN conference is organised under the banner ‘Connecting Through Educational Technology to produce effective learning environments’ and takes place from 16-19 June. While the call…
This 11th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held 1-3 July 2019 and plans to bring together more than 800 delegates from 80 different countries to present their projects…
EdMedia + Innovate Learning international conference which takes place 24-28 June in Amsterdam spans all disciplines and levels of education attracting researchers and practitioners in the field from 70+ countries. This…