by Rebecca Rui, XR ERA. WEART develops wearable haptic devices that enable a naturalistic and comfortable interaction with virtual objects, surfaces, and materials, allowing people to grasp, touch, feel, and manipulate…
28 October 2022
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by Rebecca Rui, XR ERA. WEART develops wearable haptic devices that enable a naturalistic and comfortable interaction with virtual objects, surfaces, and materials, allowing people to grasp, touch, feel, and manipulate…
by Tessa Jolls, President and CEO, Center for Media Literacy, USA. The results of a new Fulbright-NATO Security Studies Award are now available through a just-released report, “Building Resiliency: Media Literacy as a…
by Florence Martin, North Carolina State University & Kui Xie, The Ohio State University, USA. This article reflects on current practices and directions for digital transformation through a framework that supports…
A study conducted by Centrum Cyfrowe in partnership with Europeana, EuroClio and Creative Commons. This report presents findings of the Open GLAM & education research project which attempts to understand the…
by Fernandos Ongolly, Irish Universities Association, Ireland. We students are key stakeholders in higher education; however, often there are very few opportunities for us to actively take part in knowledge co-creation…
by Denise Sutter Widmer, Université de Genève, Switzerland, Julien Bugmman & Florence Quinche, Haute Ecole Pédagogique Vaud, Switzerland. Video games have become a widespread cultural practice. However, they are…
by Farzam Sepanta, Carleton University, Canada. Although extended reality (XR) technologies such as virtual and augmented reality are widely utilized in many different fields, architectural education has not witnessed a…
by Belinha De Abreu, International Council for Media Literacy (IC4ML), USA. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Ida B. Wells. Globally, the discourse on justice and equity is layered…
by Eleni Mangina, University College Dublin, Ireland. ARETE is a €3.9 million research and innovation project funded by European Union’s H2020 programme (2019-2023). The project is led by Professor Eleni Mangina from…
by Victoria Marín, Universitat de Lleida, Spain, & Laura N. Peters & Olaf Zawacki-Richter, University of Oldenburg, Germany. Open Educational Resources (OER) are a constituent element of open education and…
Mariya Gabriel, the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth launched a new set of Guidelines for teachers and educators on tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy on…
EDUmake is a 2-year project funded under the Creative Europe Programme (CREA). The kick-off meeting took place on 17 October in Brussels and was hosted by our lead partner VRT who brought together the consortium made up…
Have you ever wondered how researchers and developers work together on creating an extended reality project? How do they approach an idea that can add value to an educational experience? What are the pitfalls that can…
On September 13, 2022, Media Literacy Coalition Bulgaria and Meta hosted for the very time an event, co-organised by the Menlo Park-based big tech company and the leading non-governmental network organisation, dedicated…
The Media & Learning Association’s annual competition to reward best use of media to support education at all levels is now open for entries! We are looking for entries which demonstrate excellent use of…
The MLA4MedLit Conference dedicated to Teacher Education in Digital and Media Literacy held online on 19 October 2022 was the first event of its kind organised by the Media & Learning Association. 183 people from 48…
It’s been busy in our secretariat in recent weeks while amongst other tasks, we were delighted to welcome 3 new members to our association and to start to find ways in which we can collaborate with them to…
Panopto announced in October that for the fifth year in succession, Panopto is being used by at least 20 of the world’s top 25 academic institutions as ranked by the Times Higher Education World University 2023 Rankings…
The European project “Social Radio 2.0 – The European School Radio and Podcasting Community for Active Citizenship Education” aims to introduce a holistic educational approach that will support schools and teachers…
The EU Academy is offering a new MOOC entitled ‘What Can You Do with Data in Your Classroom?’ starting on 7 November and running until 16 December. It tackles questions such as ‘What kind of artificial…
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) is hosting a two-day conference on “Rethinking Learning and Teaching Spaces – physical, virtual, seamless?” on 17-18 November in Vienna…
The Digital Collective (DigiCo) is hosting a Multi-stakeholder Talk on Digital Inclusion in Brussels, on 21 November 2022. The event will reunite multiple actors in the field of digital literacy, to discuss the current…
The LLLWeek 2022 will take place from 8 November – 2 December in Brussels, Belgium. The Lifelong Learning Platform is an umbrella body that gathers 42 European organisations active in the field of education…
The DICE conference will take place from 30 November – 2 December online. Between digital lectures and the desire to return to the university, between video conferencing and the desire for personal exchange:…
The 5th European Education Summit will take place on Thursday, 1 December, online. The event puts youth and education centre stage, giving young people the opportunity to contribute to shaping the future direction of…
The European Media Information Fund (EMIF) is organising its first annual event “Funding the Fight Against Disinformation”, taking place on 2 December 2022, and hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon…
ASCILITE 2022 international conference under the theme “Reconnecting relationships through technology” will take place from 4 – 7 December in Sydney, Australia, and online. The importance of…
The Global Media Education Summit (MES) brings together an international network of researchers, educators, and practitioners across all aspects of media education, media and digital literacies, youth media production…
Bett is back at ExCeL London on 29-31 March 2023 for three days of inspiring content, networking and product discovery from a wide variety of solution providers. Described as the biggest Education…