In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, support providers within higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly important for shaping the future of learning and driving digital innovation. Centres for...
European Year of Digital Citizenship Education 2025
by Villano Qiriazi, Council of Europe. Stepping up efforts to strengthen the implementation of digital citizenship education: the European Year of Digital Citizenship Education 2025In today’s world, our lives are...
Digital Media Literacy in EDMO: Guidelines for Effective Media Literacy Intiatives
This Special Edition of ‘Digital Media Literacy in EDMO’ reflects on the recently published Guidelines for Effective Media Literacy. For more information and to download the Guidelines here. Sally Reynolds...
Welcome to our new members from Ukraine and the United Kingdom!
This month the Media & Learning Association is pleased to welcome a new organisational member: Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine; and a new networking member: Media and Information...
Photoleap: your AI assistant photo editor
Photoleap is an AI-powered photo editing app that helps users transform images using a variety of advanced editing tools, filters, and creative effects. Photoleap is part of the Lightricks suite and it allows for fast...
Media and Learning Association seeks Director
The Management Board of the Media and Learning Association has just announced that they are looking to appoint a new person to the post of Director for the association. The main task of this person is to manage the...
Seven videos on the effective use of video by Tony Bates
Renowned online learning expert Dr. Tony Bates has just released seven videos that expound on the effective use of video in teaching and learning. Tony begins his series with what he considers to be the main lesson that...
Explore the educational potential of CAVEs (Cave Automatic Virtual Environments) on 21 November
A Media & Learning online event organised jointly with XR ERA and titled “Exploring the educational potential of CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) ” will take place from 14:00 – 15:30 CET on Thursday, 21...
Teachers 4.0 Digital – Building capacity in European Classrooms
Digital literacy and tackling disinformation are among the key skills needed for the 21st century. Teachers need to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to empower their students to think critically, make...
Seznam trains media literacy among teachers and librarians in Czechia
By Peter Jančárik, Seznam.cz, Czechia. Seznam.cz might be small globally, but it is one of the largest internet companies in the Czech Republic reaching 90% of the Czech internet population, and offering a wide range of...
MediaSmartOnline campaign launches across Europe
The main objective of MediaSmartOnline campaign is to test out an approach developed by MLA and EUN for running a Europe-wide media literacy awareness-raising campaign in collaboration with the Insafe network of Safer...
It was a busy week of webinars to celebrate Global MIL week…..
The Media and Learning Association partnered with several leading organisations to organise a programme of successful daily media literacy webinars from 21 to 25 October. The topics covered ranged from using media...
Developing an immersive VR environment for cultural heritage learning
by Markos Souropetsis, Eleni A. Kyza, Louis Nisiotis & Yiannis Georgiou. Fun and playfulness are probably not the first terms that come to mind when thinking about history education and cultural heritage learning...
LEARNTEC, Karlsruhe, Germany, 6-8 May 2025
The LEARNTEC 2025 trade fair for digital education in schools, universities and the workplace will take place at Messe Karlsruhe from 6 to 8 May 2025. The accompanying specialist congress will offer a glimpse into the...
EUA Paper on development and strategic benefits of learning and teaching centres
This paper, published in March 2024, reports on the findings of the European University Association (EUA) Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group “Development and strategic benefits of learning and teaching centres”...
Good News, Bad News or No News, London UK, 27 November 2024
Ofcom’s Media Literacy network, Making Sense of Media, is organising their winter conference in Central London on 27 November. This day-long free event is open to all and according to the organisers will provide a...
EUA Teaching and Learning Forum, Cork, Ireland, 27-28 February 2025
University College Cork (UCC), Ireland will host the European University Association’s 2025 European Learning & Teaching Forum. Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, this Forum provides a platform for...
Safer Internet Forum, Brussels & Online, 21 November 2024
Safer Internet Forum (SIF) is a key annual international conference in Europe where policymakers, researchers, law enforcement bodies, youth, parents and caregivers, teachers, NGOs, industry representatives, experts and...
SENS – advancing education in digital health
by Mélanie Chamel, University of Strasbourg, France. SENS is a university initiative aimed at advancing education in digital health. Its primary goal is to offer specialised degree programs for healthcare and...
OER in VET, Online, 26 November 2024
ETF (European Training Foundation) is organising a webinar on the use of Open Educational Resources in Vocational Education and Training under the banner ‘a leverage for inclusion and innovation’...
