August 2024

August 2, 2024

Faculty Voices: what to know from a collection of videos on the use of generative AI in teaching and learning

by Mary Godfrey, Harvard University, USA. At the end of the 2023 fall semester, my team at the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) set out to produce a set of…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

August 5, 2024

EducaMídia’s first five years: creating a 360° media literacy strategy for Brazil

by Mariana Ochs, EducaMídia, Brazil. How do you cultivate critical media engagement skills across a continent-sized nation marked by significant disparities in educational contexts and socio-economic conditions? When Brazil’s non-profit Palavra Aberta Institute launched the…

• Digital and Media Literacy

July 4, 2024

Digital portfolios as flying containers with open windows

by Chrissi Nerantzi, University of Leeds, UK. What is this about? Well, when I think about digital portfolios, the word “container” comes to mind. Philip Abrami and Helen Barrett have used the term “container” in…

• AV Technologies
• Higher Education

July 29, 2024

New tools available in 5 languages to stimulate critical thinking amongst children

by Julia Piechna, NASK, Poland. New technologies have significantly enhanced communication and socialisation for children globally, making the digital environment increasingly crucial in their lives. This environment offers opportunities for growth, learning, and discovery. Children…

• Digital and Media Literacy

July 10, 2024

Media & Learning 2024: Back to the Future? conference highlights

by Kamakshi Rajagopal, Belgium. Sonia Hetzner (FAU) kicked off the proceedings on Day 1 with an exploration of the conference theme “Back to the Future” by examining two possible interpretations of this theme: a return…

• Artificial Intelligence
• AV Technologies
• Higher Education
• XR

August 5, 2024

Digital Media Literacy in EDMO: Round Table #2: BROD

This interview is part of the ”Digital Media Literacy in EDMO Round Table’‘ interview series that is published every month to highlight the work of the 14 EDMO hubs. BROD – Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory of Digital…

• Digital and Media Literacy

July 4, 2024

Media-enhanced teaching: Africa must not be left out

by Michel Leroy, Dortmund University, Germany and Sara Namusoga-Kaale, Makerere University, Uganda. The Erasmus+ project “Communicating Migration and Mobility: E-Learning Programs and Newsroom Applications for Sub-Saharan Africa” (CoMMPASS) aims to design and develop an online…

• Higher Education

July 7, 2024

Digital Learning strengthens Cybersecurity Skills across the EU

by Teemu Patala, Context Learning Finland and Janne Riiheläinen, Aalto University, Finland. Developing a common European model for cyber citizenship The Cyber Citizen Initiative, spanning from 2022 to 2024 and funded by the EU recovery…

• Digital and Media Literacy

July 31, 2024

Showcasing UOH’s Open Education Initiatives

by Camila Monge Pizarro, UOH University & Alyson Kocher, L’Université Numérique, France. L’Université Numérique and Université Ouverte des Humanités (UOH) participated in the annual Media and Learning Association conference titled “Back to the Future,” held…

• Higher Education
• OE(M)R

July 26, 2024

Can economic and financial education be fun?

by Sebastian Freisleder, FWU Institut für Film und Bild, Germany. Fun and entertainment – these are probably not the terms that first come to mind when thinking about economics and finance. And yet it was…

• AV Technologies
• Higher Education
• Lifelong Learning

July 31, 2024

YouNDigital newsroom: young voices and citizenship

by Margarida Maneta and Mariana Muller, Lusófona University, CICANT, Portugal. When challenged to think and express their voices, young people can easily take on the role of journalists. The YouNDigital newsroom can prove it. Over the past six…

• Digital and Media Literacy

July 26, 2024

“Choosing Your Own Adventure” in Equitable Stage Makeup and Hair MOOC

by Sarah M Oliver, University of Michigan, USA. How do you consume content?  When you read a book, do you start on the crisp title page and read straight through, or flip quickly to the…

• AV Technologies
• Higher Education

August 1, 2024

E-course to boost your digital empowerment as a higher education teacher

by Kaat Somers, University Centre Sint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA), Belgium. In todays digitalized society, people are in need of digital knowledge and competences to participate to everyday life. Higher education is no different in this: increasingly, we…

• AV Technologies
• Digital and Media Literacy
• Higher Education