February 2026

February 2, 2026

Submit now for the MEDEA Awards 2026, celebrating excellence in educational media

The MEDEA Awards 2026 is now open for submissions! Organised by the Media and Learning Association, the annual MEDEA Awards celebrate the best use of media in education across all levels and learning…

• Artificial Intelligence
• AV Technologies
• Higher Education
• Primary and Secondary Education

January 26, 2026

Building UvA AI chat: why we built our own GenAI tool and what we learned

by Merel Pompe, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. UvA AI Chat is the University of Amsterdam’s institutionally developed generative‑AI tool (GenAI), created by an internal team to provide…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

January 25, 2026

ESJ LILLE: when Information travels to you – Newstruck, projects and Innovative games

by Laurence Gaiffe, Lille School of Journalism, France. A Newstruck, a van equipped as a mobile control room, which travels the roads to raise public awareness about information and how it is…

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Higher Education
• Lifelong Learning

January 12, 2026

D-PAIDEIA: Addressing Social and Emotional Competences in Post-Covid Digital Education

by Katsiaryna Palishchuk, All Digital, Belgium. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation in education but exposed gaps in teachers’ pedagogical, social, and emotional use of digital…

• Higher Education

January 21, 2026

From barrier to solution: how educators can identify and build their own accessibility tools

by Matthew Deeprose, University of Southampton, UK. As an educator, you may notice digital accessibility barriers your students face. A student with wrist pain struggles with note-taking.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

February 2, 2026

Solving Media Literacy’s translation crisis through trusted professionals

by Parent Zone, United Kingdom. Across Europe media literacy enjoys robust policy support from national regulators to EU-level frameworks.  Yet a curious disconnect exists. While academics and policy makers champion media literacy, practitioners who work…

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Lifelong Learning

February 1, 2026

Equipping communities with AI discernment through literacy

by Brittani Kollar, MediaWise, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, USA. It was not that long ago that content generated with AI could be easily identified, whether by its sheer ridiculousness or…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital and Media Literacy
• Lifelong Learning

February 1, 2026

Meet virtUOS, the Center for Digital Teaching, Information Management and Higher Education Didactics in Osnabrück University

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

February 1, 2026

Kids Radio Europe: when young people make journalism, not just consume it

by Myrto Stamelaki, National Federation of Francas, France. What if media literacy was not only about analysing information, but about creating it? Across Europe, young people are surrounded by media…

• AV Technologies
• Digital and Media Literacy
• Primary and Secondary Education

January 21, 2026

How a smart spreadsheet partner transforms academic work

by Mengqi Hu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. As data-driven decision-making becomes central to academic and administrative workplaces in higher education, spreadsheets remain a ubiquitous…

• Artificial Intelligence
• Higher Education

January 28, 2026

The reality of digital ageing

by Dr. Cora van Leeuwen, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. Media and digital literacy, and older adults are often seen as opposites. An examination of 20 years of newspaper articles in…

• Digital and Media Literacy
• Lifelong Learning