September 2021

75% of university lectures are inaccessible for students with auditory impairments

Amberscript conducted research among 350 students from 175 different universities in 15 European countries between August of 2020 and January of 2021 to check the level of accessibility measures implementation. As of…

31 August 2021

3 min read

Escape rooms – a new format for fighting disinformation?

“The bulk of disinformation on the Internet could be combated with basic evaluation skills” (Nicole Cooke) “While facts make an impression, they just don’t matter for our decision-making, a conclusion that has a great…

30 August 2021

5 min read

What we learned teaching Media Literacy in France

It was a simple tweet from an anonymous account, sharing an article from 2013 published by the French newspaper Libération: “Horse meat lasagnas: a European-wide fraud”. On this day in May 2018, in front of a fifth…

16 August 2021

4 min read

ChemPov – a Multi-Player Digital Boardgame from Singapore that supports more engaging learning

Organic chemistry is widely considered to be one of the hardest branches in chemistry. In a recent survey done in our class at the National University of Singapore (NUS), 64% of the students responded that organic…

13 August 2021

6 min read

Learning Online: lessons learned in Hungarian teacher training….

In 2020, I alongside fellow teachers, suddenly shifted from face-to-face to online teaching as a result of Covid-19. Online teaching is not new but pedagogy in the online environment is still an underdeveloped field and…

30 August 2021

4 min read

Young people fighting disinformation in Belgium, Netherlands, and Spain

SMILES is an international project where six organisations from three countries are collaborating to develop and test innovative approaches to combating the spread of fake news. The project is led by KB, the National…

30 August 2021

4 min read

Online Learning during the Pandemic: Hong Kong College Students’ Experiences

The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed online learning and teaching to the center of higher education, no matter if students, instructors, and institutions were ready or not. As a young faculty member…

1 September 2021

3 min read

News

Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

Podcast series points to most pressing challenges for EdTech sector

In the EdTech Crowd podcast series, Mateusz Rybiński, EdTech entrepreneur and president of EdTech Poland Foundation, meets with industry innovators, founders, and influencers. Guests from all over the world share their…

28 July 2021

1 min read

Lifelong Learning

Places still available for online seminars on Accessibility and Escape Rooms

The first two online seminars run by the Media & Learning Association in their autumn series are coming up in September and places are still available for members and non-members. The first takes place on 9…

2 September 2021

1 min read

Have your say on Education in Europe

The European Commission wants to hear from anyone who would like to share their ideas on the future shape of education in Europe. They are doing this by setting up an online platform for the Conference on the Future of…

2 September 2021

1 min read

Higher Education Primary & Secondary Education

Discover how AI, blockchain and robots can transform Europe’s digital education

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently published their report entitled “Digital Education Outlook 2021: Pushing the frontiers with AI, blockchain and robots.”…

28 July 2021

1 min read

Organise your own event as part of #ErasmusDays 2021

The 5th annual edition of #ErasmusDays will take place on 14-16 October this year and this is a call-out to everyone and anyone involved in the Erasmus+ Programme to use the opportunity to promote their activities…

2 September 2021

1 min read

New US report paints depressing picture of first year students’ experiences during pandemic

A new report from ACT (American College Testing), which assesses the extent to which US students are college-ready each year gives a comprehensive overview of the impact of the pandemic on students experiences in first…

3 September 2021

1 min read

Primary & Secondary Education

Media Literacy Days 2021 attracted great interest in Croatia

The Fourth Media Literacy Days organised by the Agency for Electronic Media and UNICEF, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Media and the Ministry of Science and Education, drew great interest from…

3 September 2021

1 min read

Check how well your school integrates digital technology with SELFIE

SELFIE is a free tool that anonymously gathers the views of students, teachers and school leaders on how technology is used in their school. This is done using short statements and questions and a simple 1-5 answer…

3 September 2021

1 min read

Tips and Reviews

Create animated GIFs in Chrome

2 September 2021

1 min read

NDI 5: Swiss Army knife for video over IP

3 September 2021

2 min read

AV Technologies Higher Education

New book on Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society by Dr. Alex Grech

28 July 2021

1 min read

Events and Competitions

AR & VR

Sensors & Immersive Learning – NTNU hybrid event, 8 September

NTNU’s Innovative Immersive Technologies for Learning (IMTEL) research group has been organising a series of innovation days and workshops since 2018. The eleventh event “Sensors and Immersive…

2 September 2021

1 min read

Technology Supported Learning Symposium, Malta, 15 September

The Institute for Education of Malta is inviting you to the online Annual Symposium which will take place online on 15 September, under the theme: “Technology-Enhanced and Remote Teaching and Learning”. This…

11 August 2021

1 min read

AR & VR

VR/AR Global Summit , 29 September – 1 October

The VR/AR Global Summit Online is an online conference, brought to you by the VR/AR Association, connecting the best virtual reality and augmented reality solution providers with researchers, innovation leaders…

16 August 2021

1 min read

Lifelong Learning

ALL DIGITAL Summit (online), 13-15 October

The ALL DIGITAL Summit is one of the leading public events in Europe on digital competences. It provides a unique platform where trainers and facilitators working for digital competence centres, ICT learning centres…

16 August 2021

1 min read

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (hybrid), 26–29 October, Philadelphia, USA

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference brings together professionals and technology providers from around the world to discuss their discoveries, grow professionally, and explore solutions to continuing challenges. This year…

15 July 2021

1 min read

University: Future Festival, 2-4 November

The University:Future Festival will take place from 2 to 4 November 2021 under the motto “Open for Discussion”. The three-day University: Future Festival consists of four parts, that is Demo:Day, BarCamp:Day…

28 July 2021

1 min read