April 2026

April 8, 2026

Media & Learning Conference – a preview of this year’s agenda

With just over 12 weeks to go to this year’s Media & Learning Conference organised jointly between MLA and KU Leuven, we wanted to tell you more about what’s going to be on the programme…

• Artificial Intelligence
• AV Technologies
• Higher Education
• XR

March 30, 2026

AI, classrooms and chaos: why media literacy and parent engagement matter now more than ever

by Dr Laura Zahra McDonald, ConnectFutures, UK. Children and young people are growing up in a complex, often chaotic digital environment, increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital and Media Literacy

March 10, 2026

MediaRoboLit 65+ project: New insights on older adults’ robot literacy

by Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen, University of Lapland’s Faculty of Education, Finland. Media and Robot Literacies of People Over 65 Years of Age (MediaRoboLit 65+) is a research project funded by the…

• Digital and Media Literacy

March 16, 2026

How AI is changing educational media production workflows

From Preproduction–Production–Postproduction to Layered Assembly Production by Markus Tischner, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. Many of us in higher education produce…

• AV Technologies
• Higher Education

March 31, 2026

How Zuyd University of Applied Sciences grew their CTL rather than building it!

This interview is part of the new “Centres for Teaching and Learning” series, a collection of interviews exploring the diverse roles and innovative practices of CTLs, presented by the Media and…

• Higher Education

March 30, 2026

Do our principles for AI in education still hold?

by Julian van der Kraats, Leiden University, the Netherlands. A year after the Fürth Manifesto, the landscape has shifted. The question is whether our foundations have kept up. In March 2025…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

April 7, 2026

Psychological Defence and Information Influence – a textbook on Theory and Practice

by Johan Österberg, Psychological Defence Agency, Sweden. The following featured article provides a summary of the recently published Manual ‘‘Psychological Defence and Information Influence‘‘ by the…

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Lifelong Learning

March 30, 2026

Insights from MLA event on the role and possible value of avatars in Higher Education

by Lana Scott, MIT, US. From virtual reality classrooms to AI-powered simulations and video-based instructors, avatars are rapidly becoming a central feature of modern education. On February 26…

• Artificial Intelligence
• AV Technologies
• Higher Education
• XR

March 30, 2026

NewsGuard: Global Leader in Information Reliability; Providing Trust Tools for Media Literacy across Europe

by Hailey O’Connor, NewsGuard, US. NewsGuard, founded in 2018, has become the global leader in information reliability and a trusted information integrity expert. NewsGuard is also a signatory to the…

• Digital and Media Literacy

April 3, 2026

Lessons learnt over a decade of the EDIT – Educational Video Challenge

by Janne Länsitie, EDIT Challenge Producer. My journey with video pedagogy began in the 80s and 90s with silly home videos of pretty much anything. By my teens, I was exploring cult horror movies (illegal…

• AV Technologies
• Higher Education

March 17, 2026

Media-Pop. Interpreting populist narratives through the media

by Giulia Crisanti, La Sapienza University, Italy. Between January and February 2026, at Sapienza University of Rome, we offered a course aimed at high school students on the theme “Media-Pop.

• Digital and Media Literacy