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April 2022

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April 2022

Featured Articles

A virtual tour of four advanced hybrid learning spaces

by Zac Woolfitt, Inholland University, the Netherlands. What are the next developments in the Hybrid Virtual Classroom? What kind of spaces might we be teaching and learning in soon? On March 16th we glimpsed the…

17 March 2022

16 min read

Media Literacy Primary & Secondary Education

Can the truth be a lie? Challenging children’s critical thinking skills about media and misinformation

by Eef Cornelissen, Jelle De Schrijver and Sanne Hermans. Children grow up in a world characterised by an ever-increasing supply of digital information. They are literally one click away from an overdose of information…

1 April 2022

4 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Lessons from the pandemic – changing what we do in the lecture space

by Louise Robson, Benjamin Gardner, Eleanor J. Dommett. In March 2020, COVID-19 forced UK universities to move lectures online. Towards the end of the 2020/21 academic year it was apparent that a return to the…

27 March 2022

4 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Building the Portable Hybrid Classroom

By Christian Wisecarver and Christian Franco, Harvard University, USA. Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education offers high-quality, hyflex courses in a format that we call HELIX (“Harvard Extension Live Interactive…

4 April 2022

4 min read

AR & VR

How to improve impact with adaptive VR training?

By Dr Gert Vanthournout, Yasmine Wauthier, Dr Silvia Van Aken, Kristof Overdulve & Lowie Spriet There is an enormous potential for the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in training. This seems especially true for so…

5 April 2022

5 min read

Lifelong Learning Media Literacy

To train and be trained in critical media analysis

by Chloé TRAN PHU & Anne-Claire Orban, Média Animation, Belgium. Our media society is in perpetual movement: new apps, new content, new uses, new issues and so many educational challenges to take up. How can we take…

4 April 2022

4 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

We are overlooking the obvious when supporting teachers

By Julian van der Kraats, Leiden University, the Netherlands. The tools we use for almost everything in our modern world are increasingly more digital and software based. Education is no exception; even though the…

4 April 2022

3 min read

AR & VR Higher Education

Combining AR and peer-to-peer proves to be highly successful

by Iris Wunder & Ruth Maloszek, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany Teaching and learning with peers and augmented reality offers opportunities for memorable, active learning. Peer to…

5 April 2022

4 min read

Higher Education

Welcome to the Moodle Newsroom! Building communities of practice in online learning

by Claudia Hackl, Jana Herwig and Daniel Handle-Pfeiffer, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Vienna, Austria Making communities of practice in media & learning visible and tangible using the tools and…

6 April 2022

4 min read

News

AV Technologies Higher Education

The first 3 M&L22 conference keynotes are…

We’re thrilled to announce that Erin Crisp, Deborah Arnold, and Brian Beatty will be presenting at this year’s Media&Learning Conference University of the Future – Mediated, Pixelated, Hybrid or Virtual…

27 March 2022

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Sharing tips and tools – book your place for our online seminar on 12 April

Our next seminar aimed at the higher education community is entitled “Educational Media Tips, Tools and Apps” and takes place on 12 April from 14:00 to 16:00. During this online seminar we will feature an…

6 April 2022

1 min read

Lifelong Learning Media Literacy

Places available in our last webinar Teacher Education in Digital & Media Literacy – 20 April

How can teacher education in digital and media literacy be placed within the frameworks and models that already exist to provide a mechanism for viewing teacher education in general? Join us on the 20th April to know…

6 April 2022

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Kalyzée wins International Prize for innovative training solution

We’re delighted to share with you that our sponsoring member Kalyzée won the prestigious international prize set up by the French Ministry of Labor, Employment and Integration, the French High Commissioner for…

14 March 2022

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

TransACTION! project – Media and Learning Design in Higher Education

TransACTION is an ERASMUS+ supported project with the overall objective of developing and up-scaling effective media-based learning strategies and resources in Europe Higher Education. The project is led by the…

1 April 2022

1 min read

Higher Education Lifelong Learning

7 principles of good assessment and feedback

Through consultation with universities, a survey and a review of the current literature Jisc has gained a picture of the UK assessment and feedback landscape in higher education. They introduced the seven principles of…

16 March 2022

1 min read

Media Literacy

UNESCO MIL Alliance Update

Alexandre Le Voci Sayad, Co-chair of the International Steering Committee of UNESCO MIL Alliance, recently published an update ”Critical thinking and Artificial Intelligence: the role of Media and Information…

1 April 2022

1 min read

Lifelong Learning Media Literacy

Digital Competences Framework (DigComp 2.2) update published

The Commission published the latest update of the Digital Competences Framework (DigComp 2.2) on 22 March. DigComp and it’s updated version DigComp 2.2. can continue playing a central role in achieving…

4 April 2022

1 min read

Media Literacy

SMILES – Young People fighting disinformation

After few months of working on the development of the modules, also called building blocks, the partners recently successfully met in Hilversum at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut…

1 April 2022

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

AV Technologies

Kahoot and Vimeo: interactive with video

6 April 2022

1 min read

AV Technologies

Lightworks: Hollywood style editing

6 April 2022

1 min read

Higher Education

New EU report on Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education

4 April 2022

1 min read

Events and Competitions

AR & VR

XR Awards – deadline 8 April

The XR Awards 2022 includes a category for best Education and Training Solution and is now open for submissions. Submissions need to involve advancing immersive extended, mixed, virtual, and augmented reality…

4 April 2022

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Teaching and Learning in the post-digital world (online), 21 April

Teaching and Learning in the post-digital world online conference will take place on Thursday, 21 April. This evenorganised by Coventry University in the UK focuses on the abilities (i.e. competence, skills…

1 April 2022

1 min read

Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

OER22 (hybrid), 26 – 28 April 2022, London, UK

Organised by the Association for Learning Technology and Co-Chaired by the Global OER Graduate Network, this year’s 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy will be the…

10 March 2022

1 min read

Higher Education

UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022, 18-20 May, Barcelona, Spain

UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) aims at reshaping ideas and practices in higher education to ensure sustainable development for the planet and humanity. In view of the global health crisis, the…

10 March 2022

1 min read

AR & VR AV Technologies Higher Education

16th EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, 21-28 May, Sani, Halkidiki, Greece

The 16th EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTELSS) that will take place in Sani, Halkidiki, Greece on May 21-28, 2022. The summer school is organised by the European Association of Technology Enhanced…

16 March 2022

1 min read

Higher Education

EURASHE annual conference 23-24 May, Brussels, Belgium

The 31st EURASHE Annual Conference ‘Next Generation PHE: Skills relevance, Inclusion, Digitalisation, Innovation’, is taking place on the 23-24 May 2022 in Brussels at the EPHEC campus. Next Generation PHE will discuss…

4 April 2022

1 min read

Higher Education Lifelong Learning Primary & Secondary Education

Digital Education Governance beyond International Comparative Assessment (online), 25 May

The online conference ‘Digital education governance beyond international comparative assessments: complex histories, contested presents, and contingent futures’ will take place online on 25 May. This event will provide…

16 March 2022

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Irish Learning Technology EdTech Conference, Cork 26-27 May

The Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) annual EdTech conference will be held this year in University College Cork on 26-27 May under the banner theme Sustainability and Digital Pedagogy: Next Steps. Papers are…

1 April 2022

1 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

Open Apereo 2022: The Value of Open Source, Online 14-15 June

Save the Date for Open Apereo 2022: The Value of Open Source which explores the value of open source software and communities to address higher education’s top IT issues and drive successful digital transformation on…

6 April 2022

1 min read

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