by Alexandre Le Voci Sayad, ZeitGeist, Brazil. The curricula for initial teacher education in Brazil, and in a significant part of Latin America, lag behind reality. It is common to see educators who have just graduated…
2 February 2022
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by Alexandre Le Voci Sayad, ZeitGeist, Brazil. The curricula for initial teacher education in Brazil, and in a significant part of Latin America, lag behind reality. It is common to see educators who have just graduated…
by Paul Seedhouse, Newcastle University, UK. How can you use the latest digital technology to record the spoken interaction in your classroom setting, tag, analyse and evaluate the talk and use it as the basis for…
by Brian Beatty, San Francisco State University, USA. Education systems in general, and higher education systems in particular, have struggled continuously to meet the legitimate learning needs of those they are…
by Wybren Bosma & René Janssen, Lepaya & Parable. You walk into your boss’s office planning to ask for a raise. As you sit down the knot in your stomach tightens. Nervously you mutter your first words but after…
by Amy Johnson & Michael Cowling, CQU, Australia. It’s been a tough few years at Meta (Facebook), as they’ve come under increasing pressure to put better protections on their social media protections to support…
by Dimitris Mourtzis, University of Patras, Greece. The Coronavirus pandemic (SARS CoV-2) has expanded the gaps in the education sector globally. The outbreak of COVID-19 has created educational disruptions and global…
by Kathy O’Flynn-Magee & Tom Scholte, UBC, Canada. The high prevalence of bullying in nursing education is well documented globally. As a student-faculty partnered team in a university school of nursing on the…
by Tracy Poelzer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Evolving from a triage-like state of emergency remote teaching in early 2020 to better blended/online learning design has been no easy feat. As we cautiously…
The call for contributions to this year’s Media & Learning Conference being held in Leuven, Belgium on 2-3 June will close on 14 February. This conference organised jointly between MLA and KU Leuven is being…
Here in the Media & Learning Association we have begun our annual hunt for the best use of media in education with the launch of the MEDEA Awards 2022. We are looking for entries which demonstrate exceptional use of…
The European Media & Information Fund (EMIF) has announced three new calls on Media & Information Literacy; Research into Media, Disinformation and Information Literacy and Multidisciplinary Investigations on…
The first round of activities being organised by the new Media & Learning Association SIG on Teacher Education in Digital & Media Literacy is a dedicated Wednesday Webinar series on the topic. The first webinar…
The Media & Learning Association (MLA) is in the process of developing an active learning game aimed at 14-16 year old students to help them acquire the skills to spot fake news. A first international version of…
On 17 February we will be organising a deep dive from 14:00 to 17:00 CET into the subject of media supported language teaching. For this session we will be joined by experienced language teachers including Julia…
All are invited to submit chapter proposals for the upcoming book ‘Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures’, edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin. Contributors are invited to…
Kalyzée, one of our sponsoring members, took part in the world-renowned Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas on 5 -8 January. This French startup took part in CES to present its edtech audiovisual solution…
As part of the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), the EU policy strategy of effective digital transformation in education and training, the European Commission is developing guidelines that will help teachers…
On 13 January, the European Commission adopted the 2022 Annual Work Programme for the Creative Europe programme. With an annual budget of €385.6 million, nearly €100 million more than in 2021, Creative Europe will offer…
TransACTION, a new European Commission supported project involving Media & Learning Association members had its first meeting in January. This three year long initiative will support the development of a common…
The Media & Learning Association is delighted to announce that Canon has become the latest sponsoring members to join the association. As a well known supplier to the educational sector for many years, Canon’s…
Panasonic Connect Europe, sponsoring member of the Media & Learning Association, is hosting a free webinar on Tuesday, 8 February from 10:00 – 10:45 CET. During this webinar, participants will discover current…
EUA will hold this year’s European Learning & Teaching Forum online on 17-28 February. The European Learning & Teaching Forum is an EUA event that provides an opportunity for participants to meet and…
ALL DIGITAL Weeks 2022 will run from 14 March until 14 April 2022. ALL DIGITAL Week is an annual digital inclusion and empowerment campaign run at digital competence centres, libraries, community centres…
The ATEE Spring Conference in 2022 under the theme “Teacher Education and Practice: Foresight and Hindsight” will take place on 25-27 May in Dublin, Ireland. The sub-themes of the conference include education…
EPIC is an international conference hosted by the Dutch Acceleration Plan that will take place on 30 May-1 June in Rotterdam. This conference is aimed at sharing and accelerating innovative practices in higher…
EDEN 2022 Annual Conference will be hosted by Tallinn University, Estonia, on 20-22 June in hybrid mode. This yearʼs conference is intended as a continuation of the efforts of EDEN to support educators by…
The International Academy of Technology, Education and Development will host their 14th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies EDULEARN22 on 4-6 July, in Palma de Mallorca (Spain)…
The 10th Annual Summer Institute in Digital Literacy will take place on 10 – 15 July, on the downtown Chicago campus of National Louis University, USA, and online. During this event participants will advance their…
NordMedia2023 is organized by the University of Bergen in cooperation with the national Nordic research associations and Nordicom. The Nordic planning committee has announced that the next…