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November 2018

Newsletter

November 2018

Featured Articles

Media education teaching and research from the north, for the world

The Centre for Media Pedagogy (CMP) is a unit dedicated to interdisciplinary teaching and research of media education. Founded in 2001, CMP operates at the northernmost university of the EU—the University of Lapland…

5 November 2018

3 min read

Higher Education

10 researched tips to produce great video in learning (some will surprise you)

When considering video for learning, what do key pieces of research say about impact on learning outcomes? As it turns out video may seem instinctively useful but that is not always the case.

6 November 2018

6 min read

AV Technologies

Celebrating 10 years of Opencast at the 2019 Opencast summit

When UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich initiated project “Matterhorn” more than 10 years ago, course capture and video management were merely on the horizon for most academic institutions. Today, lecture recording is becoming…

31 October 2018

2 min read

News

Higher Education

Call for papers on Media & ICT in Teacher Education

Research on Education and Media (REM) is an academic journal devoted to research on Education and Media in the broadest sense. The journal serves the interest of researchers, educators and teachers, and publishes…

31 October 2018

1 min read

Higher Education

Dominant form of instruction in the US is video

A recent study carried out by Pearson in the US found that the main form of instruction across most subjects is now watching a video (66% respondents) compared to listening to a lecture (52% respondents). Together with…

15 October 2018

1 min read

Media Literacy

Observatory on media and information literacy launched in Portugal

A new Observatory on Media, Information and Literacy (MILOBS) was recently launched in Portugal and is the first Portuguese observatory exclusively dedicated to media and information literacy. This project began…

11 October 2018

1 min read

Higher Education

Meet the Media and Education Special Interest Group (M&E SIG) in the Netherlands

Some twenty years ago the universities and other institutions for Higher Education(HE) in the Netherlands decided to extend the collaboration to the educational support units. Before it concentrated on the IT and audio…

11 October 2018

3 min read

Higher Education

Media & Learning Video in Higher Education Conference in Leuven 5-6 June 2019

It’s official – after the highly successful June 2018 conference, the Media & Learning Association plans to organise a second Video in Higher Education conference in partnership with LIMEL, KU Leuven on 5-6 June…

25 October 2018

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

AV Technologies

Hush hush, here comes Rush

29 October 2018

2 min read

Higher Education

5 Ways to boost student engagement

23 October 2018

2 min read

Events and Competitions

Media Literacy

Greek Media Literacy Week 19-26 November

The 2nd Greek Media, Information & News Literacy Week will be organised from 19 to 26 November 2018 in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Department of Journalism and Mass Media of the…

18 October 2018

1 min read

Higher Education

EMOOCS 2019 20-22 May 2019, Naples, Italy

Federica Weblearning Centre at the University of Naples Federico II will host the European MOOC Stakeholder Summit in 2019. The call for papers is now open. Read all about it on their website.

19 October 2018

1 min read

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