Due to the Covid-19 crisis our lives have brutally shifted into digital. We use the Internet to learn, to work, to communicate and to socialize. However, some groups are digitally excluded and although governments are…
25 May 2020
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Due to the Covid-19 crisis our lives have brutally shifted into digital. We use the Internet to learn, to work, to communicate and to socialize. However, some groups are digitally excluded and although governments are…
Universal design of digital content has been on the agenda for some time now. At NTNU we have also been working on the topic – trying to keep up with new regulations and technological development. For the time…
The finalists in this year’s MEDEA Awards have just been announced, you can read about them here, the winner will be announced in October. Each month we are featuring one or more of this year’s finalists. In…
Had the current pandemic crisis occurred a decade or so earlier, national quarantine measures imposed across Europe would have surely brought any meaningful pedagogy to an instantaneous halt. With the rapid expansion of…
How can higher education institutes transform the future? Successful higher education learning hubs of the 21st century cannot exist as academic silos. Instead, they must be flexible to the needs of the 4th industrial…
Think about how fast you go through lots of websites once you start your laptop or pick up your phone or tablet. In a matter of clicks you’ve followed one link, and another, and another. You have accessed and switched…
The finalists in this year’s MEDEA Awards have just been announced, you can read about them here, the winner will be announced in October. Each month we are featuring one or more of this year’s finalists. In…
The 7th Annual Summer Institute in Digital Literacy run by Renee Hobbs and her colleagues in The Media Education Lab takes place July 14-18 2019 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The institute is a 42-hour intensive…
For Kaltura, and for many other companies in the EdTech business, the current pandemic is something of an opportunity. Because of the crisis, many people are re-considering education and how it is provided and find…
The European SafeOnline Initiative has just been launched. SafeOnline is led by partners in Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Romania and supported by institutions and associations across Europe. Together they are…
An international initiative supported by the Erasmus+ Programme, EduHack is an ongoing project that helps educators to gain digital competence through online courses and eduhackathons. On Tuesday 16 June 2020, Dr Luca…
The Association for Media Literacy (AML) in Canada has media literacy education as its priority. Every Monday evening Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus, AML President and Vice-President, get together to look at 21st Century…
Every country in Europe had its approach to education in response to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. How did the educational systems around Europe adapt to the lockdown? What tools did Ministries of Education offer…
Social media is a great way for academic staff to stay connected with their students. However this practice is not without its dangers. EDUCAUSE Review recently published a study into what academic staff in the US are…
Schools Week is reporting this week on pressure to end the popular BBC lockdown lessons which have been used by large numbers of pupils in the UK and elsewhere during the crisis. The reason? fears they will squeeze…
CovEduHackathon 2020: Designing Group Assessment in a post COVID-19 world will take place on 10th and 17th June. The hackathon will take place online and will be split into two separate 3-hour sessions. Organised…
It has been several months now that higher education institutions have found themselves in a position of complete digital education. To share experiences and practices of HEIs in Europe, the European University…
What are the benefits of using AI in higher education institutions? The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), one of Europe’s leading institutional associations in online, open and…
By promoting and inspiring professionals, EDEN’s mission is to increase the potential of exchange of academic and professional experience. The 29th EDEN 2020 Annual Virtual Conference will take place on 21-24 June using…
STEM Online Days 2020 is a unique initiative organised through a cooperation between Scientix, STEM Alliance, STEM School Label, STE(A)M IT, Impact EdTech, TIWI, SpaceEU and Amgen Teach. It aims to further promote and…