Newsletters
November 2026

Newsletter

November 2026

These are busy weeks for the MLA team, with membership growing and lots of events and training opportunities planned. We are also delighted to have the call for inputs open for our next conference taking place in June 2027, we hope you will find plenty of interest in this month’s newsletter.

MLA News

2 November 2026

Submit your proposal for the Media & Learning Association’s annual conference, 16-17 June 2027 in Leuven, Belgium

The call for proposals is now open for the Media & Learning Association's annual conference, which returns to Leuven, Belgium, on 16–17 June 2027.

Artificial Intelligence
AV Technologies
CTL
Higher Education
OE(M)R

3 November 2026

MEDEA Awards 2027 – Show the world what media can do for learning!

The MEDEA Awards 2027 are open for entries! Since 2008, the MEDEA Awards have celebrated excellence and innovation in the use of media for education and training. From videos and animations to immersive experiences and…

Artificial Intelligence
AV Technologies
Digital and Media Literacy
Lifelong Learning
OE(M)R
Primary and Secondary Education

22 October 2026

Media & Learning Association welcomes six new members in November 2026

This month, the Media & Learning Association is pleased to welcome six new members

Digital and Media Literacy
Higher Education

4 November 2026

Wednesday Webinar on Grassroots Media Literacy: community-led approaches to building trust and digital resilience | 14:00-15:15 CET 18 November

Who teaches media literacy when institutions don’t reach people? Formal education and public services can’t be everywhere at once. In that gap, community-led media literacy initiatives have grown...

Digital and Media Literacy

3 November 2026

XR in higher education: what research and practice tell us

This webinar brings research and practice together to explore how XR can be used meaningfully and responsibly in higher education.

AV Technologies
XR

3 November 2026

Online workshop: A deep dive into Consistency in Media Production with AI

In this hands-on Deep Dive workshop, Markus Tischner shows how to keep productions coherent through prompting, co-creation with AI and smart workflow design.

Artificial Intelligence
AV Technologies
Higher Education

3 November 2026

Intersectoral Chapter for Digital and Media Literacy approved by UNESCO

We are delighted to announce that UNESCO has approved our Intersectoral Chapter for Digital and Media Literacy, written by our colleague, Chloé Pété.

Digital and Media Literacy

Featured Articles

Blue banner with text PodcastTraining: Making an audible difference, and a yellow microphone graphic.

2 October 2026

Learn the Craft of Narrative Podcasting

by Naomi Grewan and Dhashen Moodley, Radio Workshop Storytelling is something we all relate to, and it’s evolved over the years. From nursery rhymes to novels, to movies and narrative podcasts. We all know what…

AV Technologies
Digital and Media Literacy

27 October 2026

Man Enough: How to Protect Boys from Online Misogyny

by Matteo Bergamini, Shout Out UK, CEO, United Kingdom. The proliferation of extremist content and ragebait across digital spaces has continued to grow and we are starting to see its real world impact. From growing…

Digital and Media Literacy

Group of 12 students and staff, some with arms raised, smiling at the camera in an indoor setting.

9 October 2026

8 success factors to create a thriving ‘students as partners’ CTL

The Centre for Teaching and Learning of Vrije University of Amsterdam has worked together with students as partners since its founding seven years ago. Admittedly, it hasn’t always been a smooth ride. We have made…

AV Technologies
CTL
Higher Education

26 October 2026

NO AI ACT: What if learning about AI regulation began with an investigation?

by Matteo Angeloni, PhD Candidate, University of Tuscia, Italy. A mother loses priority for a nursery place after an automated system assigns her an “insufficient” score. The notice gives no meaningful explanation. The supplier describes...

Artificial Intelligence
Digital and Media Literacy

2 November 2026

Lights, Camera, Co-Creation: Building Authentic Learning Scenarios with Students and Lived-Experience Experts

How can students practise difficult professional encounters when the situations they need to learn from are precisely the ones that are difficult to recreate safely?

CTL
Higher Education

2 November 2026

AI chatbots as everyday companions: how young people in Austria use and perceive AI

by Saferinternet.at, Austria. Four in ten young people in Austria say they often find it more helpful to ask an AI than to ask a human being. One in four finds it easier to talk…

Artificial Intelligence
Digital and Media Literacy

3 November 2026

The ReDMIL Doctoral Summer School at Ten: Sometimes research needs shade to grow

by Pierre Fastrez and Jerry Jacques, UC Louvain, Belgium. Every two years, in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), our research group at UCLouvain opens its doors to ReDMIL (Research on Digital, Media and Information Literacy), its doctoral summer…

Digital and Media Literacy

2 November 2026

The E-learning Centre at SRCE

The E-learning Centre is part of the University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE), the national e-infrastructure institution for higher education and scientific institutions in Croatia.

CTL
Higher Education

4 November 2026

Learning to Read the News – or why we should introduce news literacy in every classroom

by Katerina Chryssanthopoulou, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. When I entered my Media Literacy Club classroom on Friday, March 3, 2023, my students were clearly emotional. Just four days earlier, on February 28,…

Digital and Media Literacy
Primary and Secondary Education
Teacher Education

News

Mind map of AI in Education Wiki with topics like Evaluation, Research, AI Literacy, Assessment, Disciplines, Modeling,

31 August 2026 2 min read

AI Ed Wiki maps the field of AI in Education

A new open-access wiki offers a navigable map of the fast-growing field of AI in Education (AIED). The AI Ed Wiki, developed by Doug Holton, brings together 172 interlinked concept pages covering everything from core…

Artificial Intelligence
Higher Education
OE(M)R

15 October 2026 1 min read

Vlogging beyond the classroom: new resources from the ViBes project

How can vlogging become a meaningful learning activity in schools? The Vlogging Beyond Classrooms (ViBes) project set out to answer this question.

Digital and Media Literacy
Primary and Secondary Education

22 October 2026 2 min read

UNESCO background paper: Is there a right age for AI in education?

A new background paper commissioned by UNESCO takes a closer look at the global debate over whether and when children should use AI at school.

Artificial Intelligence
Digital and Media Literacy

26 October 2026 1 min read

5Rights Foundation’s Campaign: Children Redrawn

5Rights Foundation, in partnership with the European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA), has launched Childhood Redrawn, a Europe-wide campaign calling for a digital world that respects and protects children’s rights.

Digital and Media Literacy

Tips and Reviews

2 November 2026

isGenAI: Finding out whether content was made with AI

isGenAI is a free online tool that helps people find out whether text, images and other digital content may have been created or changed using artificial intelligence (AI). It looks for clues such as information…

Artificial Intelligence
Primary and Secondary Education

2 November 2026

Storyboard School: tell stories with images

Storyboard School is an online learning platform that helps people plan and tell stories using images. It focuses on storyboarding, a technique used in film, animation and video production to plan a story before filming…

Artificial Intelligence
AV Technologies
Primary and Secondary Education

Events and Competitions

03 NOV 2026

06 NOV 2026

EuroXR 2026 and the NEM Summit, Valencia, Spain 3-6 November 2026

The 23rd EuroXR International Conference is taking place in Valencia this week.

09 NOV 2026

EdReNe looks at digital education repositories in the age of AI, 9 November

EdReNe, the Educational Repositories Network, has two events coming up that focus on how AI is changing the way digital educational content is managed and provided.