by Sophie Thompson, VirtualSpeech, UK. From interviewing for jobs or negotiating sales terms to fielding questions from the press or conducting disciplinary meetings – challenging and nerve-wracking situations…
18 January 2023
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by Sophie Thompson, VirtualSpeech, UK. From interviewing for jobs or negotiating sales terms to fielding questions from the press or conducting disciplinary meetings – challenging and nerve-wracking situations…
by Carla Coscarelli, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & Ana Elisa Ribeiro, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Since at least the 1980s, Brazil has been building a series of documents…
by Peter Andries, Media & Learning Association, Belgium. With the recent release of ChatGPT based on GPT-3.5 and its wide-open access, interest in AI has seen a massive surge now that a broad adoption of AI seems…
by Valeria Kovtun, Head of Filter, Ukraine. In 2021, we launched Ukraine’s first national media literacy body – ‘Filter’. Filter aims to empower Ukrainians, giving them the tools to apply critical thinking when…
by Tim Collins, Varjo. Immersive technology can help medical personnel prepare and train for the most challenging real-life scenarios. With the advent of high-fidelity Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality, advanced…
by Julia Dawitz & Emma Wiersma, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On January 16th 2023, the Programming Teaching Lab and the Teaching and Learning Centre Science of the University of Amsterdam organised a 4…
by Isabella Dobler, Innovation in Learning Institute/FAU, Germany. Online assessment at higher educational institutions have created many new possibilities to track students’ learning progress or to measure…
by Jessica Airey, Les Surligneurs, Belgium. Have you ever heard a candidate make an outrageous promise to win an election? Perhaps you doubted whether such a too-good-to-be-true pledge might ever be enacted should they…
by Gohar Hovhannisyan, European University Association (EUA), Belgium. Attention for learning and teaching (L&T) has increased, both among higher education institutions (HEIs) and at national and European…
By Maaike Wessels-Compagnie, Hogeschool Rotterdam, The Netherlands. If you visited the 2022 Online Educa Berlin or the 2022 Immersive Tech Week you may recognise these depictions of XR related talks. Maaike Wessels…
by Helen Nicholson, Jisc, UK. Automating transcriptions and captions is perhaps one of the most widespread uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in education today. When aiming to increase accessibility, these…
We are delighted to announce the first keynote speakers for the Media & Learning 2023: Where pedagogy meets media conference, which will take place from 20-21 June in Leuven, Belgium! Jeremy Nelson from the…
A conference on how EU tech regulation affects democratic discourse and media policy was held on 23–24 January in Stockholm within the framework of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Among…
The Media & Learning Association has a special offer from January onwards whereby new member organisations (including higher education institutions, national or regional networks, government agencies, NGO’s…
The European Media and Information Fund Calls for Proposals for 2023 is now open for projects in Europe aiming to fight disinformation, on three areas of intervention: Investigations into Disinformation Dynamics …
The Media & Learning seminar entitled “Virtual tours of advanced learning spaces” will take place from 14:00 – 15:30 CET on Thursday, 23 February. During this workshop, we plan to ‘visit’ several facilities in…
TeaMLit, Teacher Education in Digital and Media Literacy: providing guidance, resources and support to teacher trainers in Europe is a project funded by the European Media and Information Fund (EMIF). The two days Kick…
The SMILES team recently met on 19 January in The Hague, the Netherlands, the meeting was hosted by The Hague University of Applied Sciences. During the meeting, because the project received an extension of 2 months…
The 29th annual EUNIS congress is going to take place from 14-16 June in Vigo, Spain. Entries are now open for the EUNIS awards for AV enabled learning space. This award is open to all higher education providers…
The State of Cybersecurity in K-12 Education online seminar will take place from 20:00-21:00 CET, on 8 February. This webinar will discuss the recent report (Hillman, 2022) on the state of cybersecurity in education by…
Digifest 2023 (hybrid) will take place from 7-8 March in Birmingham, UK, and online. Participants will be invited to explore innovations in learning and teaching, research, and senior leadership. The event is aimed at…
The Australian Media Literacy Alliance, with the support of META Australia, is hosting a FREE professional development conference in Sydney and online for those who are passionate about supporting lifelong media…
The University of Groningen is organising a conference: Practices of Digital In- and exclusion in Everyday Life, taking place April 3-4, 2023, Groningen, The Netherlands. This conference considers citizens’ everyday…
The call for papers for the EURASHE 32nd Annual Conference which will take place 8-9 June in Bucharest, Romania is now open. In her 2022 State of the Union address, the President of the European Commission announced…
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) hosts the largest professional development conference dedicated to media literacy education in the U.S. As the preeminent professional development conference…